"You Try to Be Superman and You Don't Have to Be": Gay Adoptive Fathers' Challenges and Tensions in Balancing Work and Family

Richardson, Hannah B.; Moyer, April M.; Goldberg, Abbie E.

doi:10.3149/fth.1003.314

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“…Co-mother families are often privileged over heterosexual parents for placement of the hardest-to-place children in the U.S. foster care system. They are viewed as more willing to adapt their parenting for children who present the most severe behavioral, physical, and emotional problems (Richardson, Moyer, & Goldberg, 2012), produce higher family functioning capabilities (Erich, Leuing, Kindle, & Carter, 2005), and demonstrate higher levels of resourcefulness and more highly developed social support networks as compared to their heterosexual counterparts (Brooks & Goldberg, 2001). Co-mother experiences of heterosexist stigmatization increase their sensitivity to children's experiences with discrimination and ability to promote children's positive coping (Ausbrooks & Russell, 2011).…”

Section: The Cultural and Familial Context Of Co-mother Familiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Tale of Two Mommies: (Re)Storying Family of Origin Narratives

Suter

Kellas

Webb

et al. 2016

Journal of Family Communication

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This study examined co-mother family of origin stories. Origin stories, representing the formation of a family, are culturally understood within a master narrative of heterosexual love and biological childbearing. Beginnings of co-mother families rupture this dominant, gendered, boy-meets-girl script. Investigating whether or not co-mother stories reify the normative master narrative or if instead their narrations resist and/or possibly transform conventional understandings, analysis identified three co-mother origin story themes: Becoming a Family (1) as Normal, (2) as Negotiation, and (3) as Normalization. Themes differ in terms of depiction of co-mother family formation as congruent with current norms, as something that needs to be made to seem normal (i.e., in need of normalization), or as something between normal and normalization-to be negotiated internally within the couple. Study results are discussed within a broader framework of family coming-together stories.

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Section: The Cultural and Familial Context Of Co-mother Familiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Tale of Two Mommies: (Re)Storying Family of Origin Narratives

Suter

Kellas

Webb

et al. 2016

Journal of Family Communication

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“…In one of these studies researchers investigated 40 gay male couples who raised children together, while in the other one, 15 men who were in the process of trying for a baby using surrogacy were examined (Bergman, Rubio, Green and Padrón 2010;Greenfeld andSeli 2011, for: Berkowitz 2013: 73). The studies conducted so far yield insight into various experiences of gay couples, such as changes in individuals' sense of identity and self-esteem after becoming parents, relations with families of origin or into strategies of balancing work and family (e.g., Bergman, Rubio, Green and Padrón 2010;Richardson, Moyer and Goldberg 2012). However, the existing criteria for creating research groups can signifi cantly limit the possibility of fi nding families in which non-heterosexual men perform the parental function.…”

Section: Gay and Bisexual Men As Parents And Their Childrenmentioning

confidence: 99%

Families of non-heterosexual people with children - among old answers and new questions

Puszyk¹

2016

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The aim of this paper is to present and analyse the available data concerning the situation of children of nonheterosexual people and to discuss selected areas of LGB parenting. The article enables an identifi cation of issues related to the welfare and specifi city of functioning of children brought up by gays, lesbians and bisexual people, which over almost forty years of research have fi nally been empirically verifi ed. At the same time, it points to the need to caution against generalizing particular conclusions from the conducted research, especially those concerning the level of discrimination and peer violence against non-heterosexual people and their children, on families living in Poland and other countries characterised by a low level of acceptance of LGB parenting. The paper also identifi es areas that should be of interest to researchers, including the perspective of social parents and their relations with children, experiences of children raised by non-heterosexual men and bisexual parents, as well as experiences of children brought up in family systems alternative to the traditional model (a pair of parents with children). The data collected so far allow us to speak about safe context of development of children raised in family systems created by non-heterosexual parents, and, at the same time, they point to a space for educational programs and research projects that will enable further understanding of experiences of non-heterosexual parents and their children.

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“…Although the literature on child care arrangements with dnGMPF is limited, it is clear that many of these fathers have concerns about the effect of parenting responsibilities reducing their availability to pursue their careers as much as they felt was necessary (Benkov, 1994;Brinamen, 2000;Richardson et al, 2012;Schacher et al, 2005). Across these various studies some reported feeling too stressed by the burdens of additional time at home caring for their children, others reported doing the bare minimum to get by at work, while others reported a realigning of their priorities (Richardson et al, 2012).…”

Section: Parenting By Lesbian Women and Gay Menmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Lacking biological basis as a partially predictive Predictive and Correlative Factors 249 factor for greater child care responsibility (GCCR) experienced by the majority of heterosexual families in the arrangement of parenting responsibilities, gay male parented families (GMPF) presumably define patterns based on different factors. Will initial desire to parent (Barr, 2011;Berkowitz & Marsiglio, 2007), the couple's need for financial resources (Sullivan, 1996), one or both partners' drive for career satisfaction and accomplishment (Benkov, 1994;Brinamen, 2000;Richardson, Moyer, & Goldberg, 2012;Schacher, Auerbach, & Silverstein, 2005), and some internal sense of being a "mothering" figure (Berkowitz, 2011) or a "fathering" figure for the child be driving forces for these families as they negotiate the parenting arrangements at which they arrive?…”

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confidence: 99%

Child Care Responsibility in Gay Male-Parented Families: Predictive and Correlative Factors

Panozzo

2014

Journal of GLBT Family Studies

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Although the frequency of gay male parented families is increasing, little is known about child care responsibility in these families. A purposive and snowball-sampled, Internet-based survey of 76 gay male parented families who brought children into their families after the primary relationship had been formed were the study participants. A modified version of Cowan and Cowan's (1988) "Who Does What" measure was utilized to determine divisions of child care responsibility. It was determined that, to a statistically significant degree, fathers with greater child care responsibility made less money and had a greater desire to have a child before the arrival of the child. After the arrival of the child they also fulfill more of a "mothering role," make less money, and have lower career importance after the arrival of the child than their partners. These findings build upon the qualitatively derived knowledge of parenting responsibilities in these families by providing a quantitative lens for understanding a number of associations between parenting responsibilities and other factors in these fathers' lives.

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"You Try to Be Superman and You Don't Have to Be": Gay Adoptive Fathers' Challenges and Tensions in Balancing Work and Family

Cited by 25 publications

References 52 publications

A Tale of Two Mommies: (Re)Storying Family of Origin Narratives

A Tale of Two Mommies: (Re)Storying Family of Origin Narratives

Families of non-heterosexual people with children - among old answers and new questions

Child Care Responsibility in Gay Male-Parented Families: Predictive and Correlative Factors

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