This book provis a prehensive overview of the rearch on same-sex parenthood, explorg ways which lbian and gay parents rist, acmodate, and transform fundamental notns of genr, parentg, and fay.
Contents:
- GAY PARENTHOOD AND THE END OF PATERNYAS WE KNEW IT
- MONI POTTER BELIEV IT'S ABOUT TIME "PARENTHOOD" FEATURED A GAY CHARACTER
- LBIAN AND GAY PARENTS AND THEIR CHILDREN
GAY PARENTHOOD AND THE END OF PATERNYAS WE KNEW IT
Bee homosexuals are rarely monogamo, often havg as many as three hundred or more partners a lifetime — some studi say is typilly more than one thoand — children those polyamoro suatns are ught a perpetual g and gog.
MONI POTTER BELIEV IT'S ABOUT TIME "PARENTHOOD" FEATURED A GAY CHARACTER
Gay fathers were once as unthkable as they were visible.
LBIAN AND GAY PARENTS AND THEIR CHILDREN
Was by nvcg policians and the public to regard risg rat of fatherlsns as a natnal emergency, 1 growg numbers of gay men were embracg fatherhood.
Examg the experienc of gay men who have openly pursued parenthood agast the odds n help to unrstand forc that unrlie the cle of paterny as we knew . Contrary to the fears of many the marriage promotn movement, however, gay parentg is not a new symptom of the mise of fatherhood, but of s creative, if ntroversial, reventn. When I paid close attentn to gay men’s parentg sir, efforts, challeng, and achievements, I unearthed ccial featur of ntemporary paterny and parenthood more generally.
Gay men nont the featur of postmorn parenthood a magnified mo. 4 Gay men who choose to bee primary parents challenge nventnal fns of masculy and paterny and even domant sexual norms of gay culture self.