According to the chapter Adolescents will be Adolescents about the adolescent children of homosexual
and heterosexual parents, why is it inappropriate to generalize research findings on the developmental
outcomes of the young children of lesbian
and gay parents to the adolescent children of lesbian and gay
parents? (a) because cross-sectional comparisons have not been completed
(b) because adolescents deal with issues of sexuality and young children do not
(c) because acceptance of homosexuality is changing over time
(d) because the research samples from young children are not representative of the population and can't be generalized
B
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a. concrete operations b. formal operations c. preoperational d. sensorimotor
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