Gay Lesbian And Heterosexual Adoptive Families

Author : Laura Mellish,Sarah Jennings,Fiona L. Tasker
Publisher : British Association for Adoption & Fostering(BAAF)
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Adoption
ISBN : 1907585656

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Gay, Lesbian and Heterosexual Adoptive Families by Laura Mellish,Sarah Jennings,Fiona L. Tasker Pdf

This report presents the key findings of the Gay, Lesbian and Heterosexual Adoptive Families: Family relationships, child adjustment and adopters' experiences study. The study was the first to examine families in the UK in which children live, from early childhood, with their adoptive gay fathers, lesbian mothers and heterosexual parents. The study focused on the quality of parent-child relationships, parental well-being and children's psychological development, with the aim of producing robust evidence.

Author : David M. Brodzinsky,Adam Pertman
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780195322606

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Adoption by Lesbians and Gay Men by David M. Brodzinsky,Adam Pertman Pdf

Adoption by Lesbians and Gay Men is an interdisciplinary examination of the myths, misconceptions, research, and practice literature related to sexual-minority individuals' efforts to adopt and raise children. It also provides a blueprint for research and professional training and highlights best practice standards for working with this group of adoptive parents.

Author : Ann Sullivan
Publisher : CWLA Press (Child Welfare League of America)
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Adoption
ISBN : UCAL:B5605672

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Issues in Gay and Lesbian Adoption by Ann Sullivan Pdf

The 1994 Peirce-Warwick Adoption Symposium provided an opportunity for gay and lesbian adoption issues and concerns to be identified and for a framework for policy development to be discussed. Presenters and participants addressed policy, legal, and research issues. The book includes papers that cover the major points of the presentations and provide an overview of the entire symposium.

Author : Wendell Ricketts
Publisher : Wendell Ricketts
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Foster parents
ISBN : 9780939561094

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Lesbians and Gay Men as Foster Parents by Wendell Ricketts Pdf

Author : Kate Burns
Publisher : Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114104768

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Gay and Lesbian Families by Kate Burns Pdf

Gay and lesbian families share many traits with other families, but unique differences merit special consideration. This anthology investigates key issues related to gay and lesbian families including gay parenting, marriage laws, gay children and teens, adoption policies, and religious viewpoints in the United States and Canada.

Author : Gerald P. Mallon
Publisher : CWLA Press (Child Welfare League of America)
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : PSU:000065252321

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Lesbian and Gay Foster and Adoptive Parents by Gerald P. Mallon Pdf

This book explores the myths and prejudices that influence attitudes towards lesbians and gay men as parents.It also suggests ways that social workers can more effectively support lesbian and gay adopters and foster parents.

Author : Jack Drescher,Deborah Glazer
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2001-08-29
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0789013509

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Gay and Lesbian Parenting by Jack Drescher,Deborah Glazer Pdf

Find sources of support for raising a nontraditional family in a straight world! The experience of parenting is commonly overlooked in psychological theory, and lesbians and gay men are not typically considered as parents or parents to be. Gay and Lesbian Parenting examines the psychological issues related to developing family and becoming parents for gay men and lesbians. Instead of pathologizing gay and lesbian families, it explores the emotional growth and development issues inherent in child-rearing. Traditionally, coming out as gay or lesbian meant abandoning any hope of becoming a parent or keeping your children if you already had them. But with the “gayby boom” in full swing, more and more gay and lesbian couples are having new babies, adopting children, and continuing to raise the offspring of previous heterosexual relationships. Although gay and lesbian parents still face unique challenges in building and rearing a family, as well as the usual problems heterosexual couples encounter, Gay and Lesbian Parenting unflinchingly examines these concerns and offers positive suggestions and ideas for dealing with the difficulties. This life-affirming book takes a look at the practical and emotional realities of raising children in nontraditional family structures, including: issues of kinship, shared motherhood, and possessiveness in lesbian couples legal issues entailed by the lack of marriage and legal kinship parenthood as a powerful force for personal growth and development fatherhood as a process of creating connectedness in the family, community, and place of worship original empirical research on the mental health of lesbians’children the history of the gay and lesbian movement as it relates to child-rearing Gay and Lesbian Parenting affirms the power of gay and lesbian couples to raise healthy, happy children and to change and grow through their experience of parenting. This book is also essential for mental health professionals from psychiatric nurses to psychiatrists who are working with the gay and lesbian community.

Author : Laura Benkov
Publisher : Crown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : STANFORD:36105009740155

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Reinventing the Family by Laura Benkov Pdf

In America today, more than 10 million children have gay or lesbian parents. Reinventing the Family is the first in-depth look at the joys, challenges, and issues facing these nontraditional families. It offers invaluable insight to gay and lesbian people who are choosing children, fighting for custody, and challenging our view of "family values".

Author : Lucy R Mercier,Rena D Harold
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781317965114

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Social Work with Lesbian Parent Families by Lucy R Mercier,Rena D Harold Pdf

The traditional concept of family as being exclusively heterosexual has resulted in myth-generation about lesbian parents as well as fostering limitations in the programs and benefits that support more diverse nontraditional families. Social Work with Lesbian Parent Families: Ecological Perspectives explores the variety of social systems with which lesbian parent families interact, with a focus on implications for improved, diversity-affirming service delivery and policy development. Unlike other literature on lesbian parent families, this revealing resource pulls together work on lesbian parenting from various researchers across a broad range of disciplines and presents this work from the ecosystems perspective so that the reader may view the experiences of lesbian parent families in a holistic way. The research goes beyond simple comparisons between lesbian and straight mothers. This useful text provides more complex research data, including both a more sophisticated view of the diverse communities in which lesbian parents are found, and more innovative ways of studying the issues relevant to social service providers. Developmental and life issues negotiated by lesbian parent families are discussed in detail using a strengths-based approach to intervention with individuals, families, small groups, communities, and larger systems. This unique book has the strong potential to influence the policies that impact lesbian parent families. Social Work with Lesbian Parent Families: Ecological Perspectives is a valuable resource for social workers, psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, marriage and family therapists, public policy and administration professionals, students, and academics doing research on sexual orientation and family. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Gay & Lesbian Social Services.

Author : Nicola Carone,Henny Bos,Geva Shenkman,Fiona Tasker
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889666355

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LGBTQ Parents and Their Children during the Family Life Cycle by Nicola Carone,Henny Bos,Geva Shenkman,Fiona Tasker Pdf

Author : April Martin
Publisher : Harper Perennial
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Children of gay parents
ISBN : UOM:49015001443051

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The Lesbian and Gay Parenting Handbook by April Martin Pdf

Through the voices of lesbian and gay parents and their children talking about their experiences, Martin shows how to build the kind of support network that all parents need.

Author : Janet McDermott,Stephen Hicks
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-19
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780857009395

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Lesbian and Gay Foster Care and Adoption, Second Edition by Janet McDermott,Stephen Hicks Pdf

Featuring a spectrum of families from diverse backgrounds, this book reveals the joys and challenges of adoptive and foster parenting. The authors outline how the experience of adopting and fostering has changed for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people over the years, major changes in policy, and what the research can tell us about LGBT parenting. They interview families involved at different stages of the fostering and adoption process, from those undergoing assessments through to the experienced foster carers and adopters who were interviewed for the first edition of this book 20 years previously. While the number of LGBT people adopting or fostering has increased since then, some of the very real challenges still endure - including social stigma, homophobia and discriminatory policies - and families share some of the strategies they have used to help to address them. This is an essential source of information and advice for same-sex couples and LGBT single parents, as well as social workers, social work educators, sociologists of personal life, fostering and adoption panel members.

Author : Fiona Tasker,Jerry J. Bigner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-14
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781136783456

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Gay and Lesbian Parenting by Fiona Tasker,Jerry J. Bigner Pdf

A new, multidisciplinary look at GLBT parenting Over the past 30 years, research on gay and lesbian parents has produced findings that challenge deeply rooted beliefs in child psychology about the processes through which parents influence the development of their children. Gay and Lesbian Parenting: New Directions builds on this important research with a detailed multidisciplinary examination of established knowledge and emerging information. In addition to evaluating already substantiated findings, this innovative collection marks a turning point in the field by showcasing a new wave of research that examines the dynamics of same-sex parenting and addresses questions about newly emerging concerns such as the consequences of different routes to same-sex parenthood and the effects of social perceptions on gay and lesbian family life. Gay and Lesbian Parenting: New Directions presents an overview of significant developments and suggests future directions for the field. Arranged in four sections, this unique text offers cutting-edge information gathered from both quantitative and qualitative research methods. Section one considers gay and lesbian family formation and the may routes through which lesbians and gay men have become parents. Section two reviews family relationships from parents', and their children's, perspective. The contributions to the third section discuss how gay and lesbian families describe themselves to others. The final section examines the public perceptions held by heterosexuals about lesbian and gay parenting and looks toward possibilities for the future. Chapters in Gay and Lesbian Parenting: New Directions: look at established research and the perspective of gay and lesbian parents and their children on family life explore methodological advances in the research field define the demographics of gay and lesbian parenting and the comparisons of lesbians, gay men, heterosexual women, and heterosexual men without children consider the decisions involved in and the systemic process of donor insemination and surrogacy study gay and lesbian adoptive parents investigate representations of diversity in storybooks for children of gay and lesbian parents situate gay men’s journeys into fatherhood within the sociohistorical context of developments in the United States tell personal stories about the prospect of gay fatherhood present a consideration of the different identities that lesbian and heterosexual mothers construct critically consider the terminology used both within and outside lesbian-parented families to describe a wide variety of co-parenting relationships give an introduction to critical psychology and deconstruct the debate over the importance of paternal influence report findings from a large community survey in Australia on attitudes toward same-sex parenting and beliefs about developmental outcomes and much more! Accessible and detailed, with numerous case studies, bibliographies, tables, and figures, Gay and Lesbian Parenting: New Directions is an ideal resource for students and educators, researchers and professionals working in GLBT and Queer Studies, family therapists, counselors, psychotherapists, social workers, and psychiatrists.

Author : Gerald P. Mallon
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0231111371

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Let's Get this Straight by Gerald P. Mallon Pdf

Using an ecological perspective to highlight five principle areas of child welfare, Mallon discusses each in terms of how they pertain to individuals and families whose lives are effected by issues of sexual orientation. Let's Get This Straight uncovers and challenges the pervasive incidence of "heterocentrism" within the social work profession, drawing upon case studies and in-depth interviews to illustrate the degree to which myths and stereotypes about gay and lesbian youth detrimentally affect those most in need of assistance.

Author : Marvin B Sussman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781136554230

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Homosexuality and Family Relations by Marvin B Sussman Pdf

The first book of its kind, Homosexuality and Family Relations focuses on the effects of homosexuality and being homosexual on individuals in families and on the family as a group. Edited by Frederick W. Bozett, RN, DNS, and Marvin B. Sussman, PhD, this informative and enlightening volume examines the multiple varieties of family forms in which gay men and lesbians live, addresses the ramifications of homosexuality on family relationships, and explores the countless aspects of parenthood as they are experienced by gay men and lesbians, including adoption and foster care by lesbians and gay men, and the choice of increasing numbers of lesbians to bear children through artificial fertilization. Any professional who is interested in the family--educators, clinicians, academicians, researchers, and students, as well as others interested in families and in human sexuality and men’s and women’s studies--family science, gay studies, nursing, medicine, law, psychology, sociology, social work--will find this book useful, insightful, and unique.