The triumph of surrogacy: competing social scripts and the rise of family-normativity in the male-gay community in Israel

Knoll, Efrat; Moreno, Adi

doi:10.1080/18902138.2020.1807155

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“…In a further qualitative study, 60 in-depth interviews were conducted with Israeli gay men who became fathers through a variety of means (adoption, surrogacy, or co-parenting as singles, couples, or multi-parent families) [ 71 ]. The study explored the experience of parenthood through social scripts, i.e., the socially expected order of actions that are derived from self-explanatory norms in a society or subculture at a given time, employing a sample representing a wide range of ages (from the late twenties to age sixty).…”

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What We Know and What Remains to Be Explored about LGBTQ Parent Families in Israel: A Sociocultural Perspective

Shenkman

Segal‐Engelchin

Ben‐Ari

2022

IJERPH

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This paper reviews research on gay and lesbian parent families in Israel through cultural lenses while recognizing the diversity of these families. The major aims of the review are: (1) to provide an overview of the situation of LGBTQ parent families in Israel, as well as of the sociocultural background of the Israeli context and its effects on sexual minorities and LGBTQ parent families; and (2) to identify the limitations and lacunas in the existing research and shed light on what remains to be explored. We searched numerous databases for relevant studies, adopting a narrative approach to summarize the main findings while taking into account the literature on the socio-cultural context in Israel and its impact on sexual minorities and LGBTQ parent families. The search yielded empirical results only for gay and lesbian parent families, with studies emphasizing the challenges they face and the factors related to their well-being and that of LGB individuals aspiring to become parents. In addition, it revealed that research on children’s psychosocial adjustment as a function of parental sexual orientation is quite scarce in Israel. Moreover, it indicated the absence of investigations of bisexual, transgender, or queer parents. We conclude that the sociocultural context of Israel, including its pronatalist and familistic orientation, may play an important role in shaping the experiences of LGBTQ parent families, and should be taken into consideration when studying LGBTQ parents.

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“…The introduction of surrogacy as a medical option that can be legally pursued overseas, shaped a new couple-based fatherhood script [ 71 ]; qualitative design, n = 60.…”

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What We Know and What Remains to Be Explored about LGBTQ Parent Families in Israel: A Sociocultural Perspective

Shenkman

Segal‐Engelchin

Ben‐Ari

2022

IJERPH

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“…Masculinity is a study on males and masculinities which is related with the context of social (Ingvars, 2019;Knoll & Moreno, 2020); body/body image (Dawson & Hammer, 2020;Jones, 2015;Liao, Shen, Cox, Miller, Sievers, & Werner, 2020); human/ sexual reproduction (Inhorn, 2020;Ekşi, 2017;Joshi, 2020;Polat, 2020;Mohr & Almeling, 2020;Campo-Engelstein, Kaufman, & Parker, 2019), sex (Huysamen, 2015;Javaid, 2017), health (Matthews, 2015;White, Oliffe, & Bottorff, 2012;Norman, 2011;Cogan, Haines, & Devore, 2019;Watkins, 2019;Bradstreet, & Parent, 2018, Sydor, 2010; race (Lehman, 2006;Trautner, Kwan, & Savage, 2013), violence/ crime (Skinner, 2016), work (Rivera, 2020), politics (Luyt & Starck, 2020;Kord, 2020;Kimmel, 2010). Masculinity study is repositioning males in understanding males as male in the context of gender.…”

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The Images of Man in Indonesian Literature

Ahmadi

2022

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The research aims to describe masculinities contained in two Indonesian novels, Orang-orang Biasa and Rafilus. Specifically, the aims are divided into 2, namely (1) how the characters’ behaviors that are represented in the Orang-orang Biasa and Rafilus reviewed from the psychology of masculinities perspective are, and (2) how the impacts of characters’ behaviors on other people represented in the Orang-orang Biasa and Rafilus reviewed from the psychology of masculinities perspective. The theory used in this research was the psychology of masculinities which was related to the psychology of literature. The method used was descriptive qualitative which focused on narrative data exposure. The data collection technique used was a literature review. The data analysis technique was conducted with several steps, namely identifying the data, classifying the data, reducing the data, interpreting the data, describing the data, and verifying the data. The results showed that man's behaviors are represented in several forms. First, the men who have healthy behaviors are the ones who are strong, responsible, and honest. Second, the men who have unhealthy behaviors are the ones that have toxic masculinities which are represented in their behaviors that tend to hurt others and commit crimes.

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“…In some countries, such as Israel, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada, surrogacy has been the most common way for single men, especially gay men, to become fathers in the last decade. This has provided insight into how social scripts can evolve: from the rejection of the heteronormative idea of natality to the separation of parenting from couple-based relationships to the replacement of these discourses by a vision based on surrogacy that allows anyone, through medically assisted reproduction (MAR), the possibility of becoming a family (Knoll & Moreno, 2020).…”

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Promoting Social Visibility for Single-Father Families Created by Surrogacy

Pereira

Beatriz

2022

Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Service

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The phenomenon of single-father families created by surrogacy is a social event that lacks visibility. The dominant thinking regarding parenting is framed by heteronormativity, which establishes couplehood of different sexes as the acceptable and biologically grounded way to reproduce and raise children, leading to the lack of visibility of single men who want to be or are already fathers. For these men, there are two main possible paths: adoption or surrogacy. In this occasional essay, we will discuss the importance of creating social visibility for single men who want to become or are already fathers through surrogacy to provide enlightening information about the phenomenon, creating positive models for single gay or straight men who choose this method to fulfill their parenting ambitions. We will begin by establishing some introductory social considerations, followed by some explanations for why single men wish to pursue surrogacy and their experiences. We then provide research results from the field and respective conclusions. We argue that creating social visibility for single parents through surrogacy is a form of social change that could facilitate the deconstruction of traditionalist views of the concept of family.

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The triumph of surrogacy: competing social scripts and the rise of family-normativity in the male-gay community in Israel

Cited by 7 publications

References 17 publications

What We Know and What Remains to Be Explored about LGBTQ Parent Families in Israel: A Sociocultural Perspective

What We Know and What Remains to Be Explored about LGBTQ Parent Families in Israel: A Sociocultural Perspective

The Images of Man in Indonesian Literature

Promoting Social Visibility for Single-Father Families Created by Surrogacy

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