selected scholarly activity
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chapters
- THE EFFECTS OF CONTACT WITH CONTROL AGENTS: The Positive Consequences of Stigma. 238-250. 2015
- Adoption as a Family Form. 132-137. 2005
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conferences
- The Social Construction of Adoption: Clinical and Community Perspectives. Family Relations. 309-309. 1996
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journal articles
- Talking About Genetics: Community Perceptions of the Importance of Biological Inheritance for Determining Child Outcome. Journal of Family Social Work. 16:184-200. 2013
- The Geoscience of Climate and Energy 1. Understanding the Climate System, and the Consequences of Climate Change for the Exploitation and Management of Natural Resources: The View from Banff. Geoscience Canada. 36:33-41. 2009
- Canada-wide Survey of Earth Scientists: A Preliminary Report on the State of the Discipline, the Fossil Fuel Industries and Environmental Science. Geoscience Canada. 35:32-41. 2008
- Reinforcing the Motherhood Ideal: Public Perceptions of Biological Mothers Who Make an Adoption Plan*. Canadian Review of Sociology, The. 43:367-386. 2006
- Community Attitudes Toward Birth Fathers’ Motives for Adoption Placement and Single Parenting. Family Relations. 54:535-546. 2005
- Open Adoption as a Family Form. Journal of Family Issues. 26:380-410. 2005
- Social Support for Changes in Adoption Practice: Gay Adoption, Open Adoption, Birth Reunions, and the Release of Confidential Identifying Information. Families in Society. 86:83-92. 2005
- Empiricism and model-building in stratigraphy: Around the hermeneutic circle in the pursuit of stratigraphic correlation. Newsletters on Stratigraphy. 1:27-46. 2004
- A Comparison of Biological and Adoptive Mothers and Fathers. Adoption Quarterly. 6:7-39. 2003
- The Exxon Factor: The Roles of Corporate and Academic Science in the Emergence and Legitimation of a New Global Model of Sequence Stratigraphy. Sociological Quarterly. 43:307-334. 2002
- Sequence stratigraphy as a scientific enterprise: the evolution and persistence of conflicting paradigms. Earth-Science Reviews. 54:321-348. 2001
- Adoption as a Family Form. Family Relations. 49:359-362. 2000
- Community Assessments of Adoption Issues. Journal of Family Issues. 19:556-577. 1998
- Adoption, Identity, and Kinship: The Debate Over Sealed Birth Records. Journal of Marriage and Family. 60:541-541. 1998
- Community constructs of involuntary childlessness: Sympathy, stigma, and social support*. Canadian Review of Sociology, The. 31:392-421. 1994
- THE REGULATION OF REPRODUCTION: THE RELEVANCE OF PUBLIC OPINION FOR LEGISLATIVE POLICY FORMATION. International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family. 7:18-39. 1993
- The positive consequences of stigma: Two case studies in mental and physical disability. Qualitative Sociology. 13:251-269. 1990
- Authenticity and the disclosure of the information preserve: The case of adoptive parenthood. Qualitative Sociology. 12:279-302. 1989
- Reproductive Technology vs. the Stigma of Involuntary Childlessness. Families in Society. 70:43-50. 1989
- The Stigma of Adoptive Parent Status: Perceptions of Community Attitudes toward Adoption and the Experience of Informal Social Sanctioning. Family Relations. 36:34-34. 1987
- The Stigma of Involuntary Childlessness. Social problems. 33:268-282. 1986
- The Stigma of Involuntary Childlessness. Social problems. 33:268-282. 1986
- Perceptions of informal sanctioning and the stigma of involuntary childlessness. Deviant Behavior. 6:383-403. 1985
- COMMUNICATIONS IN CANADIAN SOCIETY - SINGER,BD. Canadian Review of Sociology, The. 14:359-360. 1977