The psychologil adjtment of children whose parents belong to a sexual mory has been a staed foc of rearch sce the early vtigatns of fai head by lbian mothers, the 1970s, to settle disput about child ctody arrangements followg divorce. Sce that time, a large body of rearch has been nducted, pecially the Uned Stat and Europe, showg that ncerns related to the poor out of lbian mothers and their adopted or donor-nceived children lacked empiril , more remas to be known about adolcents and young adults wh lbian mothers, as well as about other fay arrangements head by sexual mory parents, cludg adoptive gay fathers, gay fathers through surrogacy, gay sgle fathers, lbian sgle mothers, bisexual parents, elective lbian and gay parents, trans, non-bary and genr queer parents.Although they all share the feature of challengg the hegemonic, heteronormative fay mols, each fay arrangement prents peculiari related to the tersectn of, for example, parents’ genr, children’s method of nceptn, partners dynamics and parenthood current Rearch Topic foc on different important areas related to the experienc and psychologil out of LGBTQ parents and their children, throughout their fay life cycle: fay buildg by LGBTQ people, the transn to parenthood for LGBTQ parents and functng of LGBTQ parents and th...
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GAY MARRIAGE: WHO’S MDG THE CHILDREN?
People who are homosexual are romantilly and physilly attracted to people of the same sex: Femal who are attracted to other femal are lbian; mal who are attracted to other mal are often known as gay. Beg terted someone of the same sex do not necsarily mean that a person is gay — jt as beg terted someone of the oppose sex don't mean a person is straight.
People who are transgenr are often grouped wh lbian and gay as a way to clu people who don't feel they f to the tegory of beg "straight.
Bee of this, some gay and lbian teens may feel different om their iends when the heterosexual people around them start talkg about romantic feelgs, datg, and sex. A 2012 survey by the Human Rights Campaign found that 92% of LGBT teens had heard negative thgs about beg lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr.