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BOOK REVIEW: Growing Up in a Lesbian Family. By Fiona L. Tasker and Susan Golombok. Guilford Press, New York, 1997, 194 pp., $26.95.

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Brewaeys, A.M.A. BOOK REVIEW: Growing Up in a Lesbian Family. By Fiona L. Tasker and Susan Golombok. Guilford Press, New York, 1997, 194 pp., $26.95.. Arch Sex Behav 30, 447–450 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1010273618493

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