Homoparentalidade feminina: laço biológico e laço afetivo na dinâmica familiar

Abstract

This article aimed to study the dynamic of same-sex parenting families formed by two women with children who have a biological bond with only one of them. We interviewed nine women -eight of them formed four couples and one was divorced -with ages ranging between 33 and 45 years, with children aging from 2 to 8 years, who were middle-class residents of the state of Rio de Janeiro, and had planned motherhood together using new reproductive technologies with semen from an anonymous donor. The following evaluation categories were discussed: kinship and affective relationship terminology; division of childcare related tasks; and the search for legitimacy. We observed that in the family settings studied, the children, in fact, identified both women as mothers, when both assume the role, demonstrating that the affective bond fulfilled its binding role.

Religiosidade/Espiritualidade na atuação da Psicologia Social e Comunitária

“…Essas mudanças dizem respeito não apenas às suas funções -que envolvem a proteção, a socialização e o afeto, mas às suas diversas possibilidades de configuração. As composições são múltiplas, encontram--se casais heterossexuais ou compostos por pessoas gays e lésbicas, criando filhos juntos, pessoas criando seus filhos sozinhas, ou seja, monoparentalidade, uniões consensuais, casais sem filhos, casais com filhos adotivos, avós que criam netos, grupo de pessoas não consanguíneas, entre diversas outras possibilidades (Guimarães & Almeida, 2018;Leone et al, 2010;Pontes, Féres-Carneiro, & Magalhães, 2017).…”

Same-sex parenting in Brazil and Portugal: An integrative review

“…In the Portuguese study by Costa and Bidell (2017) with 530 LGB childless participants, younger participants, people with lower religiosity and greater involvement with the LGBTQ+ community had more motivation for parenting. Brazilian studies have stressed that parenting project was presented as a mutual desire of the couple (Lira, Morais & Boris, 2016a;Machin, 2016;Machin & Couto, 2014;Pontes et al, 2015Pontes et al, , 2017, or initially as a desire of one of its members (Amazonas, Veríssimo & Lourenço, 2013;.…”

“…People in both countries reported different methods for making parenting viable. Same-sex parenting could be planned and/or experienced through: adoption Araldi & Serralta, 2019;Carneiro et al, 2018;Costa & Bidell, 2017;Lira et al, 2015;Matos et al, 2019;Tombolato et al, 2018;Vitule et al, 2015); assisted reproduction techniques, such as artificial insemination, in vitro fertilization (common for lesbian couples), and in vitro fertilization with a surrogate uterus (common among gay couples) (Costa & Bidell, 2017;Costa, Tasker et al, 2019;Lira et al, 2015;Machin & Couto, 2014;Meletti & Scorsolini-Comin, 2015;Pontes et al, 2015Pontes et al, , 2017Vitule et al, 2015); coparenting agreements or to make the parental project viable (Lira et al, 2016a; Research, Society and Development, v. 11, n. 16, e357111638227, 2022 (CC BY 4.0) | ISSN 2525-3409 | DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.33448/rsd-v11i16.38227 Matos et al, 2019;Medeiros, 2006;Rodriguez & Paiva, 2009;. Thus, the choice of each family depends on a series of contextual and biopsychosocial factors present in the lives of individuals.…”

“…Among couples of women in Brazil and Portugal, the desire to establish a biological bond with the child was recurrently observed, opting for reproductive technologies to achieve parenting. In Brazilian participants' reports, this choice was supported by the desire to experience pregnancy, delivery and breastfeeding (Machin, 2016;Machin & Couto, 2014;Pontes et al, 2015Pontes et al, , 2017Vitule et al, 2015), to maintain a biological bond with the child (Araldi & Serralta, 2019;Machin, 2016;Machin & Couto, 2014;Pontes et al, 2015Pontes et al, , 2017Vitule et al, 2015), and for the practicality in the face of the bureaucracies and length of adoption processes (Vitule et al, 2015). In reports by Portuguese participants, insemination through donated semen was identified as the preferred method to achieve the parental project (Costa & Bidell, 2017), and the moment of searching for assisted reproduction was related to the partner's age, a significant variable for pregnancy success (Santos, 2018b).…”

“…The Association des Parents et Futurs Parents Gays e Lesbiens coined it to welcome people with a lesbian, gay or bisexual (LGB) sexual orientation who had the desire to exercise parenting and achieve visibility for these families (Machin, 2016;Santos et al, 2018). Although its use is questioned by referring parenting to the sexual orientation of fathers/mothers, it demonstrates representativeness by highlighting dual-maternity/paternity families, contrasting the traditional family model, in which gender roles are predefined (Pontes et al al., 2017). Furthermore, same-sex parenting shows a family organization still much criticized by common social sense (Lira et al, 2016b).…”