LGBTQ Parenting Post-Heterosexual Relationship Dissolution

Tasker, Fiona; Lavender‐Stott, Erin S.

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-35610-1_1

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“…The first wave of research was focused on lesbian, gay, and bisexual parents who became parents within heterosexual relationships before disclosing their sexual identity, and who were mostly compared to heterosexual parents and their children as a norm group. Some research about these family trajectories continues (for a recent review, see Tasker and Lavender-Stott, 2020). Nevertheless, by the mid to late-1990s' there was a shift toward studying mostly lesbian parented families with children conceived through Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) or self-insemination with a sperm donor.…”

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

2021

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

2021

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“…Given the remarkable history of LGBTQ older adults and their forging of an expansive network of family ties among chosen kin, and to some extent, biological kin, we posit that LGBTQ older adults have always been on the forefront of new ways of doing and undoing normative family ties, both intragenerationally (e.g., with partners and friends), and intergenerationally (e.g., with children and grandchildren) (Allen & Demo, ; Grossman, D'Augelli, & Hershberger, ; Reczek, ; Scherrer & Fedor, ). LGBTQ older adults have had children through numerous strategies, including previous heterosexual marriage, adoption, and medical technology (Moore & Stambolis‐Ruhstorfer, ; Tasker & Lavender‐Stott, ), and some also have grandchildren (Orel & Fruhauf, , ). Yet most LGBTQ older adults do not have children or grandchildren (Heaphy, ), and this lack of tie to traditional family arrangements has led to creative innovations in reinterpreting and forging new kinds of social and kin networks centered on fictive kin and families of choice (Allen, Blieszner, & Roberto, ; Gabrielson, ; Orel & Coon, ).…”

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The Families ofLGBTQOlder Adults: Theoretical Approaches to Creative Family Connections in the Context of Marginalization,Social‐HistoricalChange, and Resilience

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2020

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This article examines how families are theorized at the complex crossroads of age, sexuality, and gender, and explores theoretical innovations derived from analyses embedded in the families of LGBTQ older adults, who have lived outside the embrace of heteronormativity. To address the extent of theorizing, we conducted a content analysis of 36 studies from 2010 to 2019. The articles revealed a social justice orientation that contextualized the marginalization and resilience in the social-historical framing of LGBTQ older adults' family life. Most articles used theory explicitly or implicitly, including life course, minority stress, and intersectionality theories, and demonstrated the intimate connection of theory and research. Future theorizing about the families of LGBTQ older adults requires more diverse samples, contextualization of LGBTQ older adults' families through critical approaches such as queer theory, and the opportunity to study new avenues into intra-and

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“…Over the past few decades the number of children growing up in LGBTQ-parent families has increased dramatically within the context of shifting sociopolitical and legal climates around the world, more favorable attitudes toward diverse family forms, and expanded access to assisted reproduction technology and adoption (Goldberg et al, 2018 ). Among diverse LGBTQ-parent family forms, lesbian and gay stepfamily arrangements formed post heterosexual relationship (PHR) dissolution likely represent the most common formation (Tasker and Lavender-Stott, 2020 ). Contrary to prevailing expectations, early studies with mothers who came out as lesbians showed that they were just as likely to have good mental health and positive relationships with their children as were heterosexual mothers, and that their children were no more likely to show emotional and behavioral difficulties, poor performance at school, or atypical gender role behavior than were children with heterosexual parents (Tasker, 2010 ; Patterson, 2017 ).…”

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