Gay Parents Raisg Kids: How Will They Fare? | Psychology Today

Contents:

• GAY PARENTS
• WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU SAW A WARS REFG TO SERVE GAY PARENTS?
• WHAT DO CHILDREN LL THEIR GAY PARENTS?
• 'WHAT WOULD YOU DO?' EPISO REP: GAY FATHERS CRICIZED FOR RAISG DGHTER WHOUT A 'MOTHER'
• GAY PARENTS RAISG KIDS: HOW WILL THEY FARE?

GAY PARENTS

Help your child navigate through the challeng of beg raised by gay parents. Gay Parents.

What would you do if you saw a wars refg to serve gay parents? May 19, 2011 -- Gay Parents the News: The televisn shows "Brothers & Sisters, " "Morn Fay" and "Glee" each week brg an unnventnal fay to the uch of Ameri, raisg the awarens that tim have changed for the nventnal hoehold. Wh one five gay upl raisg children the U.

WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU SAW A WARS REFG TO SERVE GAY PARENTS?

" Several profsnal anizatns -- the Amerin Medil Associatn, the Amerin Amy of Pediatrics and the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn -- have issued statements sayg that a parent's sexual orientatn is irrelevant to their abily to raise a Gay Parents Scenar: An actrs hired by "What Would You Do? It's a typil by morng for her until our actors portrayg the role of a gay uple -- first femal, then mal -- dg wh their children are seated her sectn. " --patron who fend the gay parents terviewed by John the scenar unfold Friday, 9 p.

WHAT DO CHILDREN LL THEIR GAY PARENTS?

It's certaly ls nfg than the choice of lbian uple Nic and Jul the film The Kids are All Right: they are both "Mom" to their kids ll gay parents is a relatively new qutn. And although lbians are far more likely to have children eher om prev (heterosexual) relatnships as well as together (g a sperm donor), gay dads are still que rare. I ask Barrie Drewt-Barlow, Bra's most famo gay dad, who wh his partner Tony has five children rangg age om one to 11, how they approached the issue.

" Another gay uple I speak to say they go by "Mommy and Mommy2". " wh ABC's John Quiñon:What Would You Do: Gay Parents -- A gay married uple is havg lunch wh their adopted dghter when they are cricized by another ctomer for raisg a child whout a “mother. Watch what happens:Part 1:At rtrants Kentucky and New York, two gay men are outwardly cricized for raisg their dghter whout a "mother.

Part 2:Contued: At rtrants Kentucky and New York, two gay men are outwardly cricized for raisg their dghter whout a "mother. 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. The Hollywood exampl are important that they’ve helped prent gay parentg as not unlike straight parentg: challengg, joyful, plited, and most of all, entirely normal.

'WHAT WOULD YOU DO?' EPISO REP: GAY FATHERS CRICIZED FOR RAISG DGHTER WHOUT A 'MOTHER'

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. Last November Illois, Catholic Chari ceased s adoptn servic after the state refed fundg unls the groups agreed not to discrimate agast gays and lbians.

Although gay and lbian parents are a powerful rource for kids need of adoptn—at least half of all children foster re the U. Are livg wh adoptive gay parents—Catholic Chari simply qu the bs rather than ply. 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.

He ced gay upl his own life, “same-sex upl who are as mted, as monogamo, as rponsible, as lovg a group of parents as any heterosexual uple that I know, ” he said.

GAY PARENTS RAISG KIDS: HOW WILL THEY FARE?

” 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. They want to know: How will the children of gay parents fare? Can kids raised homosexual hom turn out (gasp) okay?