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Contents:
- SOCLOGY: STUDY EXAM GENR ROL OF CHILDREN WH GAY PARENTS
- GAY PARENTS RAISG KIDS: HOW WILL THEY FARE?
- IALS, NEGOTIATNS AND GENR ROL GAY AND LBIAN -PARENTG ARRANGEMENTS
- GENR ROL THE RELATNSHIPS OF LBIANS AND GAY MEN
SOCLOGY: STUDY EXAM GENR ROL OF CHILDREN WH GAY PARENTS
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Biblarz argue that children wh lbian and gay parents are more likely to part om tradnal genr rol. Children born to and raised by homosexuals tend to play, drs and behave differently than children reared heterosexual hoeholds, a USC study on gay parentg has found. Those past studi – which clud only birth children, not adopted children – downplayed ntrasts between children raised by homosexuals and heterosexuals.
The USC paper foced maly on lbian mothers and their offsprg, bee fewer studi of gay fathers exist. Stacey and Biblarz found some evince that children gay hoeholds are more likely to buck stereotypil male-female behavr. “Lbian and gay parent fai offer a unique opportuny to exame ways which genr differenc affect parentg practic and out, ” said Biblarz, an associate profsor of soclogy.
However, statistilly, they were no more likely to intify themselv as lbian, gay or bisexual. Children brought up by lbians and gay men are well-adjted, have good levels of self-teem and are as likely to have high tnal attaments as children raised more tradnal heterosexual fai. “While all children probably get teased for one thg or another, children wh gay parents may experience a higher gree of teasg and ridicule.
GAY PARENTS RAISG KIDS: HOW WILL THEY FARE?
Recent rearch on gay male and lbian upl suggts that tradnal genr-role-playg sometim occurs their relatnships, though is ls mon than the relatnships of heterosexuals. This paper briefly explor three issu raised by the fdgs. First, we nsir reasons wh … * gay parents and gender roles *
Explorg how lbian and gay parent fai help children pe wh stigma uld prove helpful to all kds of fai. “Rearchers have been reluctant to vtigate differenc among children for fear that such evince will be ed to discrimate agast gay fai.
Soclogy: Study exam genr rol of children wh gay parents. Rearch on lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, and other sexual and genr mory (LGBTQ+) parents and their children has found that both parents and children are generally well adjted and that they do not differ well-beg or multiple velopmental out om parents and children the general populatn.
In recent years, nsirable ntroversy has surround lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, and other sexual and genr mory (LGBTQ+) parent fai the Uned Stat.
IALS, NEGOTIATNS AND GENR ROL GAY AND LBIAN -PARENTG ARRANGEMENTS
Consirable diversy characteriz LGBTQ+ parent fai, however, and studi of LGBTQ+ parent fai have foced more on sexual mory (gay, lbian, or bisexual) than on genr mory parents. Fai head by LGBTQ+ parents are sometim viewed as a homogeneo group, but the realy is that they are que diverse.
Studi of sexual mory parents, most of which foc on lbian mothers and gay fathers, have shown them to be generally healthy and well adjted.
3, 17 Many studi have found that lbian and gay parents are distguishable om heterosexual parents terms of overall mental health and adjtment. Rearch wh transgenr and genr mory parents and their children is currently ls extensive than studi of lbian and gay parents and their children, but several studi wh the fai have been reported. 28 In a study of more than 700 gay fathers by Perr and lleagu, parents and their children were often found to face stigma and discrimatn om relig stutns as well as om their fai, iends, and neighbors.
GENR ROL THE RELATNSHIPS OF LBIANS AND GAY MEN
One study, nducted the Netherlands, found that adolcent offsprg of lbian mothers who reported more experienc of homophobic stigmatizatn also had more behavr problems. 30 In a study nducted Italy of school-age children wh gay fathers, stigmatizatn was also associated wh greater behavr problems.
Many rearchers have studied the experienc of children of lbian and/or gay parents wh regard to homophobic teasg or bullyg om peers, and all have reported that children scribed this as a negative experience. 35–36 Rearch has also revealed that both lbian and gay parents and their children are ls likely to feel alienated, and more likely to have favorable experienc overall, when school curricula and polici are explicly clive of them.
33 Siarly, the Uned Stat, Lick and lleagu found that populatn characteristics, such as higher nsy of same-sex uple hoeholds, were associated wh greater well-beg among adult children of lbian and gay parents. Bt known for her work on child velopment lbian- and gay-parented fai, her rearch has been published the field’s top journals, and she has wrten or eded several books.