Considering alternative explanations for the associations among childhood adversity, childhood abuse, and adult sexual orientation: reply to Bailey and Bailey (2013) and Rind (2013).
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Andrea L. Roberts, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, School of Public Health, Harvard University, Kresge Building, 677 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA 02115, USA M. Maria Glymour, and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA, USA Karestan C. Koenen Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Archives of sexual behavior
دوره 43 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2014