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Journal articles on the topic "Lesbian mothers. Parenting"
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McNeill, Kevin F., Beth M. Rienzi, and Augustine Kposowa. "Families and Parenting: A Comparison of Lesbian and Heterosexual Mothers." Psychological Reports 82, no. 1 (February 1998): 59–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1998.82.1.59.
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Mothers (24 lesbian and 35 heterosexual) were asked to complete a questionnaire of four scales, Index of Family Relations, Index of Parental Attitudes, Family Awareness Scale, and Dyadic Adjustment Scale. Analysis of the mean scores indicated that these lesbian and heterosexual mothers gathered in a snowball sampling had remarkably similar scores on self-reported stress, adjustment, competence, and quality of the relationship with their families, although variability was larger for the lesbian group.
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Imrie, Susan, and Susan Golombok. "Impact of New Family Forms on Parenting and Child Development." Annual Review of Developmental Psychology 2, no. 1 (December 15, 2020): 295–316. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-devpsych-070220-122704.
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The structure of families has changed significantly over the last 40 years due to changes in legislation, technology, and societal attitudes. This article examines parenting and child development in new family forms, i.e., family forms that did not exist or were not visible until the latter part of the twentieth century. First, we give an overview of the historical and current context of new family forms. Then, we discuss parenting and child development in six new family types: families with lesbian mothers, families with gay fathers, intentional single-mother families, donor conception families, surrogacy families, and families with trans parents. Next, we discuss how research on the impact of new family forms on parenting and child development can inform our understanding of the relative influence of family processes and family structure on child development and parenting. We conclude with directions for future research.
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Gall, Rachel T., Lia Softas-Nall, and Kiersten M. Eberle. "All Families Are Special: Experiences of Lesbian-Parented Families." Family Journal 27, no. 1 (October 29, 2018): 58–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1066480718807409.
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This study explores the lived experiences of members of lesbian-parented families incorporating a systemic perspective to include both the voices of mothers and their young children. Eight whole-family interviews were conducted with lesbian couples with at least one child in elementary school (aged 5–11). Six themes emerged from the study: intentionality in finding places to live and travel, having children, and having discussions with their children; views of themselves as advocates and being “out” in their communities; noticing how times are changing; identifying assumptions as a two-way street; perceptions of gender surrounding parenting and the salience of various identities; and the dialectical tension between wanting to be perceived as normal and wanting to acknowledge their uniqueness. Clinical implications and suggestions for future research are discussed.
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SCHUMM, WALTER R. "CHILDREN OF HOMOSEXUALS MORE APT TO BE HOMOSEXUALS? A REPLY TO MORRISON AND TO CAMERON BASED ON AN EXAMINATION OF MULTIPLE SOURCES OF DATA." Journal of Biosocial Science 42, no. 6 (July 20, 2010): 721–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021932010000325.
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SummaryTen narrative studies involving family histories of 262 children of gay fathers and lesbian mothers were evaluated statistically in response to Morrison's (2007) concerns about Cameron's (2006) research that had involved three narrative studies. Despite numerous attempts to bias the results in favour of the null hypothesis and allowing for up to 20 (of 63, 32%) coding errors, Cameron's (2006) hypothesis that gay and lesbian parents would be more likely to have gay, lesbian, bisexual or unsure (of sexual orientation) sons and daughters was confirmed. Percentages of children of gay and lesbian parents who adopted non-heterosexual identities ranged between 16% and 57%, with odds ratios of 1.7 to 12.1, depending on the mix of child and parent genders. Daughters of lesbian mothers were most likely (33% to 57%; odds ratios from 4.5 to 12.1) to report non-heterosexual identities. Data from ethnographic sources and from previous studies on gay and lesbian parenting were re-examined and found to support the hypothesis that social and parental influences may influence the expression of non-heterosexual identities and/or behaviour. Thus, evidence is presented from three different sources, contrary to most previous scientific opinion, even most previous scientific consensus, that suggests intergenerational transfer of sexual orientation can occur at statistically significant and substantial rates, especially for female parents or female children. In some analyses for sons, intergenerational transfer was not significant. Further research is needed with respect to pathways by which intergenerational transfer of sexual orientation may occur. The results confirm an evolving tendency among scholars to cite the possibility of some degree of intergenerational crossover of sexual orientation.
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Welstead, Mary. "THE BRAVE NEW TERRITORY OF GAY PARENTING." Denning Law Journal 25, no. 1 (September 27, 2013): 183–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.5750/dlj.v25i1.745.
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Many couples in same-sex relationships are as enthusiastic in their desire to become parents as those who are in heterosexual relationships. Adoption, surrogacy, sperm donation, have all enabled same-sex couples to achieve their parental ambitions and create families. For the most part, they have done so without any interference by, or involvement with, the biological parents after the birth of their children.Whilst the majority of lesbian parents tend to use sperm which has been obtained from an anonymous donor, some women have shown a preference to use a sperm donor who is known to them to become the biological father of their children.This may be because they want to know the background, personality and medical history of a potential father before embarking on the procreative process. In some cases, it may also be because some women want their children to have a male role model in their life. Using a known sperm donor can, however, involve risks for would-be-mothers if, contrary to the father’s wishes, they do not want him to play a significant role in the child’s life. Their dreams of creating an autonomous nuclear family may be destroyed and replaced with a new form of extended family, consisting of three or even four parents if the biological father has a partner. The tale recounted in the Appeal Court judgment in A v B and C (Lesbian co-parents: role of father) (2012) is a cautionary one for lesbian would-be-parents and one of hope for potential biological fathers who are known to them. The Court of Appeal emphasised the paramountcy of the welfare principle, contained in s1(1) of the Children Act 1989 in resolving all child contact disputes. It declined to elicit any further principles in these difficult fact specific cases and stated that the sexual orientation of the parents and their pre-conceptual agreements, or understandings, spoken or unspoken are either irrelevant (per Thorpe LJ) or relevant but not determinative (per Black LJ).* Dr Mary Welstead, CAP Fellow, Harvard Law School, Visiting Professor of Family Law, University of Buckingham.[1] Re G; Re Z (Children: Sperm Donors: Leave to Apply for Children Act Orders) [2013] 1 FLR 1334.
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Ridge, Stacy R., and Judith A. Feeney. "Relationship History and Relationship Attitudes in Gay Males and Lesbians: Attachment Style and Gender Differences." Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 32, no. 6 (December 1998): 848–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/00048679809073875.
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Objective: The objective of the present study was to assess the applicability of attachment theory to the relationships of gay males and lesbians, with particular emphasis on parental relationships, relationship satisfaction, sexual attitudes and ‘coming out’ as being homosexual. Methods: Gay males (n = 77) and lesbians (n = 100) completed questionnaires assessing attachment style, working models of attachment, early relationships with parents and relationship history, status and functioning. A comparison sample of heterosexual participants completed measures of attachment style and relationship history. Results: Relative frequencies of attachment styles were similar for homosexual and heterosexual samples. Contrary to previous research using largely heterosexual respondents, no link between early parenting and attachment style was found. However, homosexual males reported more positive early relationships with mothers than did females. Associations of attachment style with working models, relationship variables and sexual attitudes largely supported those based on heterosexual samples. Gender and attachment style differences were found in reported effects of ‘coming out’ on relationships with parents. Conclusions: Overall, the results suggest that insecure attachment may not be over-represented in gay and lesbian samples, but that insecurity is associated with less relationship satisfaction and with problems related to the disclosure of sexual orientation. The implications of these findings for research and clinical practice are addressed.
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Cameron, Paul, Kirk Cameron, and Thomas Landess. "Green, Mandel, Hotvedt, Gray, and Smith's Study of 50 Lesbian Mothers and Their Children: Inconsistencies in Four Published Reports of the Data." Psychological Reports 88, no. 3_suppl (June 2001): 1223–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.2001.88.3c.1223.
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The 1986 study of 50 lesbian mothers by Green, et al. may be the most influential concerning homosexual parenting. However, after setting standards for—and noting preliminary evidence of—gender identity confusion in 1980 and 1982, confirmatory findings in 1986 were not included in the report's abstract and conclusions. Numerous discrepancies in different published accounts of this study—including number of subjects and how subjects were matched and analyzed—cannot be reconciled. The earliest reports were not cited in the final report which led to treatment in the literature as separate studies. The inconsistencies between the published accounts are substantive and numerous enough to recommend that the authors issue a complete and detailed report of the study.
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Świetlicki, Mateusz. "Such Books Should be Burned! Same-Sex Parenting and the Stretchable Definition of the Family in Larysa Denysenko’s and Mariia Foya’s Maya and Her Mums." Children's Literature in Education 51, no. 4 (October 19, 2019): 534–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10583-019-09394-5.
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Abstract As there is a myriad of Anglophone picturebooks featuring same-sex parents, some Western readers familiar with them would probably see little that is ground-breaking in the visual and verbal narrative of Larysa Denysenko’s and Mariia Foya’s Maya and Her Mums (2017). The picturebook’s first-person narrator and protagonist is a ten-year-old girl who describes her 16 classmates and their families; it includes no violence, no nudity, and no sexual references. Despite the title suggesting the story to be about the eponymous heroine and her family, Maya briefly introduces readers to her two mothers in one of the last doublespreads. When Maya and Her Mums was included in the programme of Ukraine’s most important book fair, the Lviv Book Forum, it became a political tool in the confrontation between homophobic Ukrainian nationalists and progressive intellectuals. In this essay, I want to examine the depiction of same-sex parenting in Maya and Her Mums and argue that it implies gradual widening of tolerance, with households headed by lesbian parents being the most controversial. Thus, the picturebook suggests that the definition of the family is stretchable, even in a conservative socio-political climate. By familiarising readers with Denysenko’s and Foya’s picturebook, I want to show what makes it different from equivalent Anglophone picturebooks and argue that the Ukrainian book market is slowly becoming more inclusive and diverse. Hence, despite the conservative backlash, the need for for same-sex parents and their children to be represented in children’s literature can no longer be ignored.
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Pearson, Kim. "Children Are Human." Texas A&M Law Review 8, no. 3 (May 2021): 495–536. http://dx.doi.org/10.37419/lr.v8.i3.2.
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There are great benefits to be had should the United States, one of the global leaders in economic strength and political power, ratify the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (“CRC”). The mystery of the United States’s ultimate reluctance to ratify the CRC, despite the nation’s central role in the drafting process, has been interrogated for years. Scholars and policy- makers have developed compelling narratives regarding obstacles to the United States’s ratification and implementation of the CRC. However well- reasoned the arguments for ratification are, there has been little progress in persuading the United States to ratify the CRC. While the work toward ratification should continue on every level, informal implementation before ratification would be advantageous and in line with historical methods of reform in the United States. One area that has been over- looked to the advantage of minority and vulnerable populations is domestic relations courts in the United States. In the United States, children’s rights advocacy work should be conducted like cause advocacy for historically disfavored groups to achieve legal recognition and protection of their rights. For example, parenting equality efforts were primarily focused on creating change in individual courts over time, allowing advocates to teach judicial officers and other legal decision-makers about positive outcomes for children of lesbian and gay parents while dispelling myths, misperceptions, and negative stereotypes about sexual minorities. Similarly, other disfavored parents, like working mothers, religious, and racial minorities, have used individual court cases to advocate and educate until new, progressive norms are adopted as national standards. Advocates for children’s rights should adopt institutional change theory and tailor cause advocacy efforts to implement the CRC principles in local domestic relations courts. Focusing on change from within institutions may shift legal norms more quickly, so children are recognized as fully human and thus rights holders in the United States, rather than relying on external legislative changes.
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Sulianti, Ambar, Jamilah Laela Apriyani, Dadang Sahroni, Wida Adila, Yiyin Karlina, and Hasya Fadhila Riyadhi. "SOCIAL NEUROCOGNITIVE ANALYSIS ON THE FAMILY ROLE IN FORMING A LESBIAN MINDSET." International Journal of Research -GRANTHAALAYAH 8, no. 1 (June 6, 2020): 316–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.29121/granthaalayah.v8.i1.2020.286.
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Motivation/Background: The formation of a lesbian mindset does not happen immediately. This study aims to explore the process of family roles experienced by research subjects who have a lesbian sexual orientation even though it is not accordance with their religion.
Method: The research method used was a qualitative research of phenomenology in two subjects who had lived lesbian sexual orientation for more than 2 years with different backgrounds. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis was conducted to analyze the role of the family as a model, how the subject perceives the stimulus, direct or indirect environmental contributions, and how close family experiences form a lesbian mindset about the subject.
Results: The results of this study indicate the subject "I" had a model of his father's behavior and reinforces the general perception of his mother that men had bad behavior. The social Environment made the subject felt ostracized and entered the domain of the lesbian community who can accept the subject with the circumstances as she was without much demand. A female friend in this environment became modes and informants experienced being lesbian. Meanwhile, "R" was growing psychologically with a style of parenting that is too spoiled by her mother and got a model and informants experienced from her older sister.
Conclusions: Both subjects get different experiences in the process of forming a lesbian mindset. From a neurocognitive social perspective, the formation of a lesbian mindset is very complex. Neurocognitive response of the experience of getting too many rough touches or too long getting a hug of comfort, both can trigger perceptions that supported by the environment will form a lesbian mindset.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Lesbian mothers. Parenting"
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Young, Crystal. "AN INVESTIGATION FOR MODERATORS OF PARENTAL STRESS IN LESBIAN MOTHERS." Thesis, Laurentian University of Sudbury, 2014. https://zone.biblio.laurentian.ca/dspace/handle/10219/2130.
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Everyday demands and hassles can elicit some form of stress upon the child rearing experience (Crnic & Lowe, 2002). Previous research using meta-analysis (Bos, van Balen & van den Boom, 2005) found that lesbian and heterosexual families are similar in nature with one important distinction, the stigmatization attached to their sexual orientation. Lesbian mothers are subjected to sexual stigma that other sexual minority individuals face, but in addition they experience stigma attached to the idealization of the nuclear family. As a consequence of this dual prejudice, moderators should be examined specifically for lesbian mothers to identify shared and possible unique factors for parenting stress.
Based on the data collected for the present study, the current research supported the extensive literature documenting moderates of parenting stress in heterosexual mothers (social support, relationship satisfaction and life stressors). Moreover this study highlighted some of the unique and possible moderators of parental stress in the lesbian family dynamic (minority stress, and stigma perception). While doing this, the current research revealed some interesting inter-correlations that were not the primary area of investigation.
In addition, the comparison of the respondents when designated into high and low scorers, gave the impression that the current study was heading in the right direction but needed additional participants to ensure that the hypotheses were correctly tested. Future research should aim to recruit a higher number of participants from various areas that may not have LGBT specific support. Moreover while utilizing an online questionnaire; steps should be taken to ensure that respondents do not become uninterested or fatigued while testing (e.g. shorten the survey).
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Gipson, Cynthia Kay 1970. "Parenting practices of lesbian mothers : an examination of the socialization of children in planned lesbian-headed families." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/3887.
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While research indicates that children reared in households headed by lesbian parents are no more likely to be teased or bullied than children from other households, lesbian mothers feel it is necessary to socialize their children as if they were. Twenty lesbian mothers with at least one child between the ages of eight months and 17 years old from the central Texas area were selected for this study. The mothers came from a variety of racial and ethnic backgrounds and diverse socioeconomic statuses. This study was qualitative in nature, using primarily grounded theory methods. The mothers were interviewed using a semi-structured format regarding their socialization strategies. Themes emerging from the interviews were that mothers went to great lengths to secure parenthood. They engaged in both direct and indirect socialization strategies. They considered their children to be members of the gay community and emphasized contact with 'families like theirs.' They felt that their families were normal yet possessed some distinct advantages and had some unique concerns. Finally, they had egalitarian relationships in terms of the division of paid labor, household tasks, and childcare, with a focus on spending the most amount of time possible with their children. Racial and ethnic socialization literature was used as a framework for this study. The similarity between participant's responses and racial and ethnic socialization theory led to the development of a model of "Alternative Family Socialization." Similar to racial or ethnic socialization, "Alternative Family Socialization" involves preparing minority children to thrive in the majority culture. Mothers stated that they prepare their children for bias by encouraging them to take pride in their family, accessing support from the gay community, encouraging the development of positive self-concepts, encouraging open communication, and teaching them how to access support. Future directions for research include further development of the model of "Alternative Family Socialization" such as how this model might explain gay men rearing children. Also future research focusing on how children of lesbian parents perceive themselves within the gay community is suggested.text
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Slunéčková, Zuzana. "Aspekty života homoparentálních rodin v České republice z pohledu rovného zacházení." Master's thesis, 2018. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-372870.
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My thesis should provide a comprehensive sum up of the life of homoparental families in the Czech Republic. I would like to closely see and monitor functioning of those LGBTI families and to research obstacles that these families must overcome to fully function in the society. In terms of equal and discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity I will examine in more details the processes, tools and institutions that provide the same conditions to all families without exception. I am primarily interested in barriers to the full functioning of these families, their access to assisted reproduction, surrogacy for gay families, and the legalization of non-biologic parent relationships to a child in a common household, their rights and duties. From a public policy point of view, I will find out whether these processes are in the accordance to equal and not discrimination treatment for all. By legalization of the partnership between homosexuals in the Czech Republic it has caused the logical development of this status and issues connecting to this law. Today, is often discussed the nature of this relationship and the possibility of its "transformation" into a full family structure ended up by marriage. This development raises a number of theoretical and practical issues. In my work,...
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Mortenson, Joan Margaret. "Negotiating parenting : lesbians in intimate relationships with mothers." Thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/17274.
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The purpose of this study is to develop an understanding of the experience of lesbians
who are in intimate relationships with women who are mothers, specifically how they negotiate
parenting. Lesbian mothers live in constant negotiation with the 'inside/outside' nature of lesbian
parenting and contend daily with both the strength of ideological practices surrounding the
institution of motherhood and with individual and systemic homophobia and hetero-normativity.
Patriarchal perspectives permeate our current ideology, social systems, and media creating an
oppressive environment for lesbian headed families to attempt to function in. Lesbians in
intimate relationships with mothers lack social acceptance, language to define and include them,
and are until recently almost silent in social work professional literature. The meta-theme
evidenced by this research was "Negotiating Parenting", under which the themes of Negotiating
with the Mother, Negotiating with the Child/ren and Negotiating with Society emerged as the
primary themes. The theme of Negotiating with the Mother generated the sub-themes of The
Primacy of the Mother, Problematizing Parenting and Working Together. The theme of
Negotiating with the Child/ren produced the sub-themes of Invitations to Bond, Naming the Role
of the Co-Parent and Experiencing the Pains and Joys of Parenting. The final theme of
Negotiating with Society was shaped by the sub-theme of Seeking Visibility and Legitimacy.
Co-researchers offer their personal stories, which are then discussed and analyzed within the
context of phenomenological inquiry and post-modern feminist theory. The co-researchers were
asked to discuss the quality of their lived experiences within the context of their families and to
reflect upon the meaning-making that emerged for them as a result of these experiences.Arts, Faculty of
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Books on the topic "Lesbian mothers. Parenting"
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Coussin, Orna. Efes ʻad 12: Yoman ha-shanah ha-rishonah. Tel-Aviv: ha-Ḳibuts ha-meʼuḥad, 2011.
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Lesbian and gay parenting: Securing social and educational capital. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
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Saffron, Lisa. Challenging conceptions: Pregnancy and parenting beyond the traditional family. London: Cassell, 1994.
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Challenging conceptions: Pregnancy and parenting beyond the traditional family. London: Cassell, 1994.
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Dorsey, Green G., ed. The lesbian parenting book: A guide to creating families and raising children. 2nd ed. New York: Seal Press, 2003.
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Dorsey, Green G., ed. The lesbian parenting book: A guide to creating families and raising children. Seattle, Wash: Seal Press, 1995.
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Minot, Leslie Ann. Conceiving parenthood: Parenting and the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and their children. San Francisco, Calif: International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, 2000.
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Gay & lesbian parenting choices: From adoptions or using a surrogate to choosing the perfect father. Franklin Lakes, NJ: Career Press, 2006.
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Mothering without a compass: White mother's love, Black son's courage. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000.
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Hagen, Jamie J. "Extending Acts of Motherhood." In Troubling Motherhood, 51–66. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190939182.003.0004.
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This chapter highlights the different ways mothers engage in storytelling to resist stigma, while also rejecting the idea that they are “bad” mothers. The prevailing story told about what makes a “good” mother relies on the construction of an ideal mother parenting within a specific vision of the nuclear family. Mothers who do not live up to this ideal construction of motherhood are punished through various forms of stigma such as sexual stigma and abortion stigma. This chapter considers the impact of stigma on two groups of women: lesbian mothers and mothers who have had abortions. Mothers from both communities who have faced stigma are finding ways to rewrite the script about how to mother without shame. Some of the forms of resistance these mothers have engaged in include abortion speak-outs, online storytelling through blogs and videos, and storytelling through art. The chapter also explores how community-based initiatives informed by the principles of reproductive justice make possible new narratives of maternity and as well as visions for a future for mothering without stigma.
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Tasker, Fiona, and Katy Rensten. "Social Science Research on Heterosexual Relationship Dissolution and Divorce Where One Parent Comes Out as LGB." In LGBTQ Divorce and Relationship Dissolution, edited by Abbie E. Goldberg and Adam P. Romero, 173–94. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med-psych/9780190635176.003.0010.
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Lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) parenthood post-heterosexual relationship (PHR) dissolution was the focus of much of the early social science research on sexual minority parenting from the 1980s onward, and remains relevant today. The initial legal cases contesting LGB parenting involved mainly lesbian mothers seeking custody of their children PHR. Yet the focus of most research on LGB parenting and legislation in the twenty-first century has been on children brought up in planned LGB-parent families. This chapter highlights the key issues of sexual identity disclosure and identity intersection for LGB parents PHR. It considers family transition through single parenthood, nonresidential parenting, and stepfamily formation that might particularly marginalize LGB parents and their children PHR. The review focuses on studies of LGB parents, new same-gender partners, and children in these families. When relevant, it considers how family law relates to sexual minority identity empowerment and disempowerment PHR.