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:
- WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE
- PARENTS OF GAY CHILDREN AND THE ISSU THEY FACE
- GAY PARENTS AS GOOD AS STRAIGHT ON
- HOW TO TELL YOUR PARENTS YOU ARE GAY
- JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE NFL ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
- 5 GAY PARENTG MYTHS
- GAY PARENTS RAISG KIDS: HOW WILL THEY FARE?
- LBIAN AND GAY PARENTG
WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE
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Acrdg to the article, Maxen ma his cisn to do so last year and reached out for advice om Carl Nassib, who 2021 beme the NFL’s first out gay active player as a member of the Las Vegas was Nassib who put Maxen ntact wh Outsports. In Augt 2010, for stance, Tony Perks, print of the Fay Rearch Council that promot heterosexual marriage, told CBS' "Face the Natn" that "no evince" existed that children raised by gay parents fare as well as those raised by straight on [source: Media Matters]. Rearch on kids raised by lbian upl (data on gay male parentg remas relatively sparse) has found that they nform ls to pk-and-blue divid genr rol and stereotyp, but a majory ultimately intify as heterosexual adulthood [sourc: Park, Patterson].
PARENTS OF GAY CHILDREN AND THE ISSU THEY FACE
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Until the early 2000s, rearch on gay parentg and child velopment out were largely foced on drawg parallels between LGBT and heterosexual parents as a way to remove sexual orientatn as some sort of dangero gredient the plited stew of child rearg.
But sce data have clearly monstrated that kids raised by gay and lbian parents grow to succsful, well-adjted young adults, parents of all strip n take away an important lson: There is more than one road to raisg a happy, healthy child. The days, gay parents are no novelty: We see them strollg through our neighborhoods, participatg our PTA meetgs, and, perhaps most notably, appearg on our TV screens: Mchell and Cam, fathers to Lily, on the ratgs smash Morn Fay; Glee’s Sue Sylvter, expectant mom to a baby nceived wh an as-yet-unrevealed sperm donor, and Rachel’s dads, played wh humor and grace by Jeff Goldblum and Brian Stok. Though this media mastreamifitn of gay parentg is a relatively new phenomenon, for s, gay parents have had children all sorts of fay nfiguratns—whether through adoptn, prev heterosexual relatnships, or, creasgly, by choosg to have blogil offsprg g vro, surrogate, and other methods.
GAY PARENTS AS GOOD AS STRAIGHT ON
Parents of gay children may go through an adjtment perd when they fd out their child is gay, but there is support for parents of gay children. * parents are gay *
Earlier this month, when Print Obama announced his support for same sex marriage days after North Carola voted to ban , he changed the nversatn nsirably by argug that ncern for children is a reason to support, rather than oppose, gay marriage.
HOW TO TELL YOUR PARENTS YOU ARE GAY
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” His support for gay marriage was self a landmark turn, but jt as notable was s direct affirmatn of gay upl as parents, which served to rebut the standard argument agast gay marriage—namely, that risks the well-beg of children and the fay.
JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE NFL ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
Kev Maxen, Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach, is the first male ach a major U.S. men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. * parents are gay *
Much of the ncern for the children of gay parents has centered specifilly on boys, who as a group have seemed, pecially recent years, prey to nfn, rentment, and stctivens—somethg creded to the risg proportn of mal beg reared fatherls hom.
5 GAY PARENTG MYTHS
What myths n scientific evince dispel about same-sex parents? Read about 5 gay parentg myths at HowStuffWorks. * parents are gay *
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.
GAY PARENTS RAISG KIDS: HOW WILL THEY FARE?
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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 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.
LBIAN AND GAY PARENTG
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.