Inclus a summary of rearch fdgs on lbian mothers, gay fathers and their children, an annotated biblgraphy of the published psychologil lerature and addnal rourc relevant to lbian and gay parentg.
Contents:
- KIDS OF GAY PARENTS FARE WORSE, STUDY FDS, BUT REARCH DRAWS FIRE OM EXPERTS
- LBIAN AND GAY PARENTG
- GAY AND TRANSGENR DIVORCE: A GUI FOR LGBT COUPL NC
KIDS OF GAY PARENTS FARE WORSE, STUDY FDS, BUT REARCH DRAWS FIRE OM EXPERTS
Although there is ample lerature regardg the uple relatnships of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) dividuals, particularly same-sex LG upl, ls is known about procs of separatn and divorce stanc where the... * gay parents divorce *
Other studi the USA parg same-sex and other-sex upl who adopted children have revealed that lbian upl were more likely to break up than gay or heterosexual parents over a 5-year timpan (Farr, 2017a; Goldberg & Garcia, 2015). In a jot statement om the Fay Equaly Council, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), Freedom to Marry, and the Gay and Lbian Alliance agast Defamatn (GLAAD), advot lled the study a "flawed, misleadg, and scientifilly unsound paper that seeks to disparage lbian and gay parents. But I n tell you that the reason I got to this whole thg is bee back 2012, right after [then-Print Barack] Obama evolved on the topic of gay marriage, to me, felt like there was a sea change the media, where now that they had the print, they uld now label everybody who disagreed wh gay marriage as bigots, or haters, or homophob.
LBIAN AND GAY PARENTG
Jot statement om advocy groups lls study a "flawed, misleadg, and scientifilly unsound paper that seeks to disparage lbian and gay parents;" thor fends his study * gay parents divorce *
What we realized once I started dog this marriage, fay work is, I realized that all of the different nversatns that we are havg about marriage and fay—whether ’s the fn of marriage, divorce, habatn, open marriage, polygamy, same-sex parentg, who go on the child’s birth certifite, whether or not gays and lbians have a right to adopt, reproductive technologi—they’re not different nversatns.
The prev edn, which was tled Lbian and Gay Parentg: A Rource for Psychologists (1995) was the succsor to a publitn tled Lbian Parents and Their Children: A Rource Paper for Psychologists that was jotly produced by CLGBC and CWP 1991. Unlike heterosexual parents and their children, however, lbian and gay parents and their children are often subject to prejudice bee of their sexual orientatn that n turn judg, legislators, profsnals, and the public agast them, sometim rultg negative out, such as loss of physil ctody, rtrictns on visatn, and prohibns agast adoptn (ACLU Lbian and Gay Rights Project, 2002; Appell, 2003; Patterson, Fulcher, & Waright, 2002).
GAY AND TRANSGENR DIVORCE: A GUI FOR LGBT COUPL NC
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As wh beliefs about other socially stigmatized groups, the beliefs held generally society about lbians and gay men are often not based personal experience, but are equently culturally transmted (Herek, 1995; Gillis, 1998).
Systematic rearch on the children of lbian and gay parents began to appear major profsnal journals the late 1970s and has grown to a nsirable body of rearch only recent years (Allen & Demo, 1995; Patterson, 1992, 2000).
As this summary will show, the rults of existg rearch parg lbian and gay parents to heterosexual parents and children of lbian and gay parents to children of heterosexual parents are que clear: Common stereotyp are not supported by the data. The relevance of this cricism has been greatly rced as rearch has expand to explore life a wir array of lbian mother and gay father fai (many of which have never lived through the divorce of a heterosexual uple), and as newer studi beg to clu a wir array of ntrol groups. Other cricisms have been that most studi have been based on relatively small sampl, that there have been difficulti wh asssment procr employed some studi, and that the classifitn of parents as lbian, gay, or heterosexual has been problematic.