Over the past few s the number of children growg up LGBTQ-parent fai has creased dramatilly wh the ntext of shiftg socpolil and legal climat around the world, more favourable attus toward diverse fay forms, and expand accs to assisted reproductn technology and adoptn (Goldberg & Conron, 2018). Among diverse LGBTQ-parent fay forms, lbian and gay stepfay arrangements formed post heterosexual relatnship (PHR) dissolutn likely reprent the most mon formatn (Tasker & Lavenr-Stott, 2020). Contrary to prevailg expectatns, early studi wh mothers who me out as lbians showed that they were jt as likely to have good mental health and posive relatnships wh their children as were heterosexual mothers, and that their children were no more likely to show emotnal and behavral difficulti, poor performance at school, or atypil genr role behavr than were children wh heterosexual parents (Patterson, 2017; Tasker, 2010) wh rearch on lbian stepfay arrangements, what we currently know about parentg and the adjtment of children whose parents are a sexual and/or a genr mory is still maly limed to lbian-parent fai through donor sematn (Bos & Gartrell, 2020). Planned lbian-parent fai were also created by adoptn (Farr et al., 2020), by sexual terurse wh a man who would not be a father to the child and by elective -parentg, whereby the mo...
Contents:
- KIDS CAN THRIVE WH GAY PARENTS
- I WAS RAISED BY 2 GAY MEN. I STILL THK CHILDREN SERVE TO BE ADOPTED TO A HOME WH A MOTHER AND A FATHER | OPN
- WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE
- 10 GAY ADOPTN FACTS THAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
KIDS CAN THRIVE WH GAY PARENTS
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Is there a negative impact of growg up a home wh gay parents? Luckily, this is an area of psychology which the rearch is tly nclive: children have jt as much chance to thrive wh gay parents as wh straight parents.
A new study published this fall the journal Developmental Psychology reaffirms this ncln, and should serve as reassurg evince that validat the experience of tens of thoands of gay and lbian parents raisg children Ameri. Approximately half of the fai were head by oppose-sex parents and half were head by same-sex parents (cludg both lbian upl and gay male upl).
I WAS RAISED BY 2 GAY MEN. I STILL THK CHILDREN SERVE TO BE ADOPTED TO A HOME WH A MOTHER AND A FATHER | OPN
The groups of straight and gay parents were well-matched to one another on mographic variabl cludg parental age, race, employment stat, and hight level of tn obtaed.
WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE
None of the oute measur showed any difference between fai head by gay vers straight parents.
Of urse, some children fare better than others, whether hoeholds wh gay or straight parents. Most important, though, the patterns of associatn were the same for fai head by gay parents and those head by straight parents.
10 GAY ADOPTN FACTS THAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
As a le, the studi have not found evince of trimental out for children raised by gay vers straight parents. For more rourc about gay adoptn, see the Donaldson Instute webse. Children of lbian and gay parents are as likely as those of heterosexual parents to flourish.