Sexual Orientation, Partnership Formation, and Substance Use in the Transition to Adulthood.
Evidence suggests that lesbian and gay young adults use substances more frequently than their heterosexual peers. Based on the life course perspective, we argue that this difference may be due to the unavailability of marriage as a turning point in the lives of lesbian/gay young adults. We use data...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Youth & Adolescence Vol. 41; no. 2; pp. 167 - 179 |
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Springer Nature
Feb2012
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