LGBTQ Adoptive Parents and Their Children

Farr, Rachel H.; Vázquez, Cassandra P.; Patterson, Charlotte J.

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-35610-1_3

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“…Research have only recently started to examine the experiences of gay fathers who had children through surrogacy, both in and outside the US (e.g., Bergman et al, 2010;Golombok et al, 2018;Shenkman et al, 2020). Pockets of research on adoption by lesbian and parents have been identified (for a recent review, see Farr et al, 2020).…”

Section: Psychosocial Adjustment Of Children Raised By Lesbian Gay and Heterosexual Parentsmentioning

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“…However, there is also an additional difference between lesbian and gay adopters in that lesbian mothers were more likely than gay fathers to have considered and sought biological parenthood before arriving at the decision to adopt (Mellish et al, 2013;Costa and Tasker, 2018). Most research assessing lesbian and gay adoptive parents and their children has found few differences when compared to heterosexual adoptive parents and their children, and cumulative evidence attests that children with lesbian and gay parents do not show higher levels of behavior problems, gender atypicality, or difficulties in their overall psychosocial adjustment compared with those with heterosexual parents (for a comprehensive review, see Farr et al, 2020). Nevertheless, most of this research has been conducted in the United States, often within the private adoption system.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…While there is evidence that children adopted from public care may present higher rates of problem behaviors than children living with their birth families (Miller et al, 2000;Howard et al, 2004;Grotevant and McDermott, 2014), adoption is advantageous in promoting child positive adjustment and general well-being when compared to alternatives such as fostering or institutional care (e.g., Triseliotis, 2002;Juffer and Van IJzendoorn, 2009). Specific to adoptive lesbian and gay parented families, greater attention to family processes within these families and its effects on children's psychosocial adjustment and well-being are needed (Farr et al, 2020), as these may differ from those in heterosexual parented families due to, for example, differential placement practices. For example, in the United States.…”

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Different Placement Practices for Different Families? Children’s Adjustment in LGH Adoptive Families

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ObjectiveThe purpose of this study was to examine the characteristics of children placed with lesbian, gay, and heterosexual adopters, and to examine children’s problem behaviors and positive psychosocial adjustment across the three family types.BackgroundThere is evidence that children with hard-to-place profiles may be more likely to be matched with lesbian and gay parents. In addition, children adopted from care face greater developmental difficulties than children raised by their birth families, although adoptive parents may buffer the negative effects of early adversity on their children’s psychosocial adjustment.MethodA final sample of 149 adoptive families from across the United Kingdom was recruited: 71 heterosexual parented, 39 lesbian parented, and 39 gay parented.ResultsThe results showed that gay and lesbian parents were more likely than heterosexual parents to be matched with hard-to-place children, partially because they were more open to being matched with children with hard-to-place profiles. However, no differences among the three family types on children’s psychosocial adjustment were found, when controlling for children’s early adversity.ConclusionAdopted children displayed similar levels of problem behaviors and positive adjustment in lesbian, gay, and heterosexual parented families. Early adversity and having a physical problem/disability accounted for much of the variance in problem behaviors whereas parenting did not. In contrast, it was suggested that parenting processes, namely, parental closeness, may help to explain children’s positive adjustment.

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Section: Psychosocial Adjustment Of Children Raised By Lesbian Gay and Heterosexual Parentsmentioning

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Section: Psychosocial Adjustment Of Children Raised By Lesbian Gay and Heterosexual Parentsmentioning

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Different Placement Practices for Different Families? Children’s Adjustment in LGH Adoptive Families

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“…Along with research on lesbian stepfamily arrangements, what we currently know about parenting and the adjustment of children whose parents are a sexual and/or a gender minority is still mainly limited to lesbian-parent families through donor insemination (Bos and Gartrell, 2020 ). Planned lesbian-parent families were also created by adoption (Farr et al, 2020 ), by sexual intercourse with a man who would not be a father to the child and by elective co-parenting, whereby the mother had a child with a man who was not her partner but played a role in raising the child (Jadva et al, 2015 ). The rapid increase in openly lesbian women having children at that time became known as “the lesbian baby boom” (Patterson, 2017 ).…”

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Editorial: LGBTQ Parents and Their Children During the Family Life Cycle

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“…Along with research on lesbian stepfamily arrangements, what we currently know about parenting and the adjustment of children whose parents are a sexual and/or a gender minority is still mainly limited to lesbian-parent families through donor insemination (Bos and Gartrell, 2020). Planned lesbian-parent families were also created by adoption (Farr et al, 2020), by sexual intercourse with a man who would not be a father to the child and by elective co-parenting, whereby the mother had a child with a man who was not her partner but played a role in raising the child (Jadva et al, 2015). The rapid increase in openly lesbian women having children at that time became known as "the lesbian baby boom" (Patterson, 2017).…”

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