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Lesbian Parenting: Rebellious or Conformist?
This chapter will explore the discourses around lesbian parenting, to consider whether it remains ‘progressive’ as an alternative family form,...
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Minority Stressors and Attitudes Toward Intimate Partner Violence Among Lesbian and Gay Individuals
Sexual minority individuals experience more intimate partner violence (IPV) than those in heterosexual relationships. Issues of mistrust, stigma, and...
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Querying Lesbian Fatherhood
This article is an auto-ethnographic exploration of the subject position “lesbian dad.” Lesbian fatherhood is understood as a category in which...
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Meaning in Life, Death Anxiety, and Spirituality in the Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Community: A Sco** Review
The changes in people’s way of life through the years raise questions on how they address existential needs and concerns, particularly those related...
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Validation of the Attitude Scale to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Old Age in a Colombian Sample
The Attitude Scale to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Old Age (EAFV-LGBT) evaluates attitudes towards LGBT older adults. The main goal of this...
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Lesbian and Bisexual Women’s Experience of Emergency Management
As climate change exacerbates exposure to disasters, a growing body of scholarship provides evidence that some groups experience significant barriers...
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Openness in donor conception families
Dempsey, Nordqvist and Kelly’s recent publication in BioSocieties highlights the complexity of disclosure in donor conception, which is legally,...
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Social Research Methodologies to Understand LGBTQ+ Families
This chapter assesses the research methods used to study LGBTQ+ families and the implications of current knowledge for applied social research,...
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Greek High School Teachers' Homonegative Attitudes Towards Same-Sex Parent Families
The current cross-sectional study examined Greek teachers' attitudes towards marriage equality and beliefs about children's adjustment in same-sex...
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Scottish Same-Sex Families: Relational Negotiations and Belongings
This chapter explores the construction of LGBTQ2 families through narratives of older, same-sex couples in Scotland, illustrating the importance of...
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The Sexual Politics of Healthy Families and the Making of Class Relations
The chapter explores how healthist framings as strategies of legitimation of same-sex parenting, in which knowledge on children’s health and...
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Can Kartini Be Lesbian? Identity, Gender, and Sexual Orientation in a Post-Suharto Pop Novel
The British author Martin Amis once remarked that “the way a writer names his characters provides a good index to the way he sees the world—to his...
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Constructing Gay Fatherhood in Known Donor-Lesbian Reproduction: ‘We get to live that life, we get to be parents’
Known donor-lesbian reproduction is an increasing form of kinship practice. This chapter is based on the findings of a qualitative interview study...
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Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Siblings
In this chapter, we review existing research examining sibling relationships where at least one sibling is lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender,...
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Pakistani Families
This chapter provides an overview of Pakistani immigration, adaptation and integration in the United States of America and Canada with a special...
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Born to Be Different: LGBTQ2 Children of Heterosexual Families
This chapter aims to challenge heterosexual norms in society by analyzing heterosexual families when confronted with the coming out of one of their...
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Malleable Identity and Parental Identity Accommodation in Multiethnic-Racial Families in the United States: Implications for Psychosocial Well-Being
As the population of individuals from different ethnic and/or racial backgrounds in North America continues to grow, scholars have turned their...
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Families in Sociocultural Change: From Structure to Relationship
Recently, the debate on which social entity can be defined as a family has been heated and often inconclusive in finding a single and unequivocal...
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Intergenerational Processes of Disadvantage in the Lives of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Australians: From Relationships with Parents to Parenting Expectations
Australia remains a heteronormative society, with many of our social, legal, and moral structures still assuming and reinforcing heterosexuality as...
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Gay and Lesbian Collaborative Co-parenting: Recognising Multiple Parents in the Netherlands and the UK
In December 2016, the Dutch Government Committee on the Reassessment of Parenthood recommended introducing legislative amendments to allow for...