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LGBTQ+ Families
This book presents current research on LGBTQ+ parenting and families, emphasizing their growing visibility and acceptance despite persistent social, political, and legal marginalization. It examines pathways to parenthood, family dynamics, parent and child well-being, and childrens educational and community contexts and offers practical implications for practitioners, scholars, policymakers, and advocates.
Perceived Impact of the Parental Rights in Education Act (“Don’t Say Gay”) on LGBTQ+ Parents in Florida
Assess the history of anti-gay legislation and the impact on LGBTQ+ individuals in this article from The Counseling Psychologist, Vol. 52, No. 2.
LGBTQ Family Building
This book is an authoritative, comprehensive, and easy-to-read guide to parenthood and family building for LGBTQ people.
LGBTQ-Parent Families: Practice and Policy
Translate knowledge on LGBTQ parent families into improved therapeutic care in practice.
Intimate Relationship Challenges in Early Parenthood Among Lesbian, Gay, and Heterosexual Couples Adopting via the Child Welfare System [PDF]
This study examines the individual narratives within 17 lesbian couples, 13 gay couples, and 12 heterosexual couples who had been placed with a child via child welfare 3 months earlier, whom they intended to adopt. The study focuses on their reflections about how the transition to parenthood has influenced their relationship and explores the degree to which these elements are adoption-specific or reflect the general stresses of new parenthood.
Lesbian and Gay Parents and Their Children: Research on the Family Life Cycle
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the research on same-sex parenthood, exploring ways in which lesbian and gay parents resist, accommodate, and transform fundamental notions of gender, parenting, and family.
