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A Canadian Perspective on Adolescent Sexuality and Public Policy: Requiring Parental Involvement Is Bad Law and Bad Medicine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2016

Martha Bala
Affiliation:
Queen's University, Canada
Nicholas Bala
Affiliation:
Queen's University, Canada
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Adolescent Sexuality and Public Policy
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