[How many of us are there?].
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As of 2000, more than 39% of same-sex couples in the United States aged 22-55 reported to the Census that they are raising children. They are raising more than 250,000 children under age 18. And that is just the small fraction counted by the census (which left out all children living with a single lesbian or gay parent, everybody with a bisexual or transgender parent, and the probably huge number who don’t feel safe “coming out” to the U.S. Census Bureau!)
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Minerva stomatologica
دوره 40 1-2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1991