Theodore J. Ste, Child Ctody and Visatn: The Rights of Lbian and Gay Parents, Social Service Review, Vol. 70, No. 3 (Sep., 1996), pp. 435-450
Contents:
- CTODY RIGHTS OF LBIAN AND GAY PARENTS RX: THE IRRELEVANCE OF CONSTUTNAL PRCIPL
- LBIAN AND GAY PARENTS CHILD CTODY AND VISATN DISPUT
- RSIAN LAWMAKER PROPOS BILL TO STRIP GAY PARENTS OF CTODY RIGHTS
- RSIA: BILL WOULD ALLOW CHILDREN TO BE TAKEN AWAY FROM GAY PARENTS
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CTODY RIGHTS OF LBIAN AND GAY PARENTS RX: THE IRRELEVANCE OF CONSTUTNAL PRCIPL
Disput over ctody and visatn n arise when a marriage ends and one parent out as gay or lbian. The heterosexual parent may seek ctody or may seek to rtrict the activi of the gay or lbian parent, or the prence of the parent’s same-sex partner, durg visatn. A gay ... * gay parents custody rights *
” In four of the s, the genr-affirmg mothers lost legal and/or physil ctody of their ia that supportg or enuragg a child’s genr nonnformy is the mark of an “unf” parent has roots gay and lbian parents’ ctody battl durg the 1970s and 1980s.
LBIAN AND GAY PARENTS CHILD CTODY AND VISATN DISPUT
Dpe the persistence of anti-gay bias some stat, judicial rpons to lbian and gay parents have improved dramatilly over the past four s. * gay parents custody rights *
As LGBTQ parents stggled to mata ctody of children after g out, they employed experts whose arguments were signed to assuage hostile judg, but which unwtgly created a standard that today puts parents like Geulas at risk of losg ctody of their the midst of the gay liberatn and lbian femist movements, many married men and women me out as gay or lbian.
In the procs of divorce, the parents often battled wh their ex-spo for ctody of their children, and they faced signifint discrimatn om fay urt judg who assumed that livg wh a gay or lbian parent was not the “bt terts” of the child. Homophobic judg and lawyers argued that gay and lbian parents would sexually abe their children, expose them to social discrimatn and raise them ways that challenged nventnal genr and sexual norms.
In short, they feared that the children of gay or lbian parents would fail to bee mascule boys and feme girls. Faced wh the arguments, untls gay and lbian parents lost ctody and visatn ti began to turn when gay and lbian parents lled on psychiatric experts to ttify their fense, cludg Richard Green, one of a group of psychiatrists who fought to remove homosexualy om the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn’s list of mental illns 1973.
RSIAN LAWMAKER PROPOS BILL TO STRIP GAY PARENTS OF CTODY RIGHTS
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Green later lked his efforts to pathologize homosexualy to the rights of gay and lbian 1974, Green ttified a ctody battle between Sarah Hall and her ex-hband central Oh. Instead, even as they fend the fns of LGBTQ parents, the experts ntued to ame homosexualy and genr nonnformy as negative tras that “good” parents would help their children dog so, they created a legal rerd, and psychologil study evince that today n be wield as a weapon agast parents who support their children’s transgenr or genr-nonnformg inti.
RSIA: BILL WOULD ALLOW CHILDREN TO BE TAKEN AWAY FROM GAY PARENTS
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The discrimatn they are facg fay urt today for supportg their children’s genr is a product of ntemporary opposn to transgenr visibily, but is also a legacy of gay and lbian ctody s that ma children’s genr and sexual normativy a basis for ctody termatns. So wrote two very recent law school graduat, Nan Hunter2 and myself, a 1976 law review article, one of the first ever published on ctody and visatn disput between a gay and a straight parent after the end of a heterosexual marriage. Secretary of the Department of Children & Fay Servic, 4 a se challengg Florida’s ban on lbian and gay adoptn, had been argued the Eleventh Circu before Lawrence was cid.
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The poetic rhetoric of liberty and eedom Lawrence was a b hard to p down doctrally, but a nversatn I had wh Nan shortly after the lg, we both agreed that whatever meant, surely gay men and lbians uld no longer be nied the abily to adopt a child on the basis of their sexual orientatn alone whout vlatg the Constutn.
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5 It also beme one of the first urts to quote Lawrence’s assertn that “[t]he prent se do not volve mors”6 and to skew the meang of that sentence away om the obv—excludg sex wh children om nstutnal protectn—and toward an terpretatn excludg the claims of lbian and gay parents and prospective parents om such protectn.