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.
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LBIAN AND GAY PARENTG
It gets more plited when three or more -equal parents will be the picture, such as when a gay man provis sperm to a lbian uple to nceive a child, and plans to parent wh them.Seven stat — cludg Delaware, Louisiana and Washgton — currently regnize more than two legal parents.
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. The mte broaned the foc of the publitn to clu the empiril rearch on gay fathers, as well as lbian mothers, and the clil lerature relevant to psychologil servic for lbian and gay parents, their children, and their fai. 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).
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).