Separation and Divorce Among LGBTQ-Parent Families

Farr, Rachel H.; Simon, Kyle A.; Goldberg, Abbie E.

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-35610-1_21

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“…Even amidst relationship dissolution, LGBTQ+ parents often collaborate creatively and effectively, drawing on chosen-family values and rejecting common hetero- and cisnormative, postdivorce coparenting scripts (e.g., children staying at one parent’s house weekdays and at the other’s on weekends); these dynamics are linked to closer parent-child relationships (Goldberg & Allen, 2020). Qualitative research with transgender-parent families has shown that family ruptures, such as divorce, are painful, yet also create spaces for all members to develop positive, expanded identities, suggesting overall resilience in these families (Farr et al, 2020; McGuire et al, 2016).…”

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How Do LGBTQ+ Parents Raise Well-Adjusted, Resilient, and Thriving Children?

Farr

Tornello

Rostosky

2022

Curr Dir Psychol Sci

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Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) parents raise well-adjusted children. How do they accomplish this feat despite stigma and discrimination? Psychological scholarship (often based in the United States and other Westernized countries) has typically used atheoretical, deficit models based on biased assumptions to compare the outcomes of children of LGBTQ+ parents and children of cisgender heterosexual parents. However, research on processes and socialization within LGBTQ+-parent families suggests that LGBTQ+ parents demonstrate flexibility, creativity, and intentionality, which are associated with children’s positive outcomes and resilience. We recommend moving from deficits-based, comparative approaches to intersectional, queer-theory-based, and strengths-based alternatives. We argue that this conceptual shift will generate new questions and thus new knowledge about the unique strengths of LGBTQ+ parenting that positively influence children’s development. Such findings may provide insights about parenting practices and ways to support effective parenting that could benefit all children and families.

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How Do LGBTQ+ Parents Raise Well-Adjusted, Resilient, and Thriving Children?

Farr

Tornello

Rostosky

2022

Curr Dir Psychol Sci

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“…The interview (Farr & Simon, 2022) focused on feelings toward the LGBTQ+ community, other communities broadly, feelings of belonging to them, and how participants exercise belonging to or involvement with their communities in everyday life. Interview questions (Farr & Simon, 2022; https://osf.io/x3btc/?view_only=cf12307 f4b474df493a2b50a5636c43f; drawn from literature; e.g., Frost & Meyer, 2012) included, but were not limited to, "We throw around this big word, 'LGBTQ community,' but what does that really mean?," "What do you think of when you hear someone refer to the LGBTQ community?," and "Tell me about some activities you have participated in related to the LGBTQ community, if any. "…”

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Feelings of LGBTQ+ community belonging among diverse youth with LGBTQ+ parents in the United States.

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Simon

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Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity

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“…In addition, the last several decades have also witnessed a great increase in the number of children living in households headed by sexual minority or LGBTQ* couples (Cao et al, 2016 ; Gates, 2013 ; Patterson et al, 2021 ; Russell et al, 2020 ). Yet, we still know very little about the dissolution experiences of sexual minority unions and the associations between pre/postdisruption interparental conflicts and children’s adjustment trajectories within these families (Farr et al, 2020 ; Gahan, 2017 , 2018 ; Goldberg & Romero, 2018 ; Goldberg, & Allen, 2013 ; Jiménez-Cabello et al, 2021 ; Tasker, 2013 ). Moreover, the legalization of same‐sex marriage in many countries as a landmark (Cao et al, 2017 ; Dush & Manning, 2022 ; Frost, 2015 ) has further contributed to the heterogeneity within the group of sexual minority couples.…”

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The Divorce Process and Child Adaptation Trajectory Typology (DPCATT) Model: The Shaping Role of Predivorce and Postdivorce Interparental Conflict

Cao

Fine

Zhou

2022

Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev

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Divorce has been conceptualized as a process. Research has extensively demonstrated that it is pre/postdivorce family environment factors that primarily account for the variability in children's adaptation over parental divorce process rather than the legal divorce per se. Amongst various factors, interparental conflict has been consistently identified as a prominent one. Surprisingly, a single source is still lacking that comprehensively synthesizes the extant findings. This review fills this gap by integrating the numerous findings across studies into a more coherent Divorce Process and Child Adaptation Trajectory Typology (DPCATT) Model to illustrate that pre/postdivorce interparental conflict plays crucial roles in shaping child adaptation trajectories across parental divorce process. This review also summarizes the mechanisms (e.g., child cognitive and emotional processes, coparenting, parent-child relations) via which pre/postdivorce interparental conflict determines these trajectories and the factors (e.g., child gender and age, child coping, grandparental support) that interact with pre/postdivorce interparental conflict to further complicate these trajectories. In addition, echoing the call of moving beyond the monolithic conceptualization of pre/postdivorce interparental conflict, we also review studies on the differential implications of different aspects (e.g., frequency versus intensity) and types (e.g., overt versus covert) of interparental conflict for child adjustment. Last, limitations of prior studies and avenues for future research are discussed. The proposed framework may serve as a common knowledge base for researchers to compare/interpret results, detect cutting edges of the fields, and design new studies. The specificity, complexity, nuance, and diversity inherent within our proposed model await to be more fully revealed.

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Separation and Divorce Among LGBTQ-Parent Families

Cited by 5 publications

References 55 publications

How Do LGBTQ+ Parents Raise Well-Adjusted, Resilient, and Thriving Children?

How Do LGBTQ+ Parents Raise Well-Adjusted, Resilient, and Thriving Children?

Feelings of LGBTQ+ community belonging among diverse youth with LGBTQ+ parents in the United States.

The Divorce Process and Child Adaptation Trajectory Typology (DPCATT) Model: The Shaping Role of Predivorce and Postdivorce Interparental Conflict

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