Discovered, made visible, constructed, and left out: LGBT+ parenting in the Italian sociological debate

Monaco, S.; Nothdurfter, Urban

doi:10.1080/13229400.2021.1935299

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“…As Muraco (2006) purported, these relationships are both normative and transformative, so that in the absence of familial semantics and social scripts for these intentional connections, adoptive parents established kinship both within and outside traditional norms. This finding is in line with previous recommendations to consider broader symbolic and institutional aspects of family and kinship (Monaco and Nothdurfter 2021). It thus follows that "chosen families" (Weston 1991) are not exclusive to lesbian, gay, and bisexual adoptive parents, and that UK adoptive parents are likely to pursue an intentional extension of their kinship networks that seems to be promoted by the process of adoption (Brodzinsky 2006;Oswald 2002).…”

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Intentional Kinship through Caring Relationships, Heritage, and Identity: Adoptive Parents’ Inclusion of Non-Biological and Non-Affinal Relationships on Family Maps

2021

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Structural open adoption has been beneficial to adoptees in integrating their birth heritage and identity. Adoptive parents also may sometimes seek out others who are neither related biologically nor through partnership to support their child in developing an integrated sense of identity. To what extent do these intentional kinship relationships become incorporated within the adoptive family network and how do adoptive parents view their role in their child’s life? Qualitative data on family inclusion of non-biological and non-affinal kin are reported from interviews with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and heterosexual adoptive parents (n = 25 families). Analyses of verbal and visual data from family map drawing interviews indicated that adoptive parents from the different types of families similarly included intentional kin in their conceptualization of their child’s family. Adopted children’s foster carers, family friends, other adoptive families, and other children and adults were specifically included on family maps to facilitate children’s knowledge of different aspects of their birth heritage and adoption story. The implications of open adoption policy therefore move beyond considerations of only birth family contact. In practice, open adoption procedures convey a broad message to families that appear to widen adoptive parents’ conceptualization of kinship.

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Intentional Kinship through Caring Relationships, Heritage, and Identity: Adoptive Parents’ Inclusion of Non-Biological and Non-Affinal Relationships on Family Maps

2021

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“…Apart from having a value on its own, inclusive research of different family contexts is needed conceptually and methodologically, as this might allow researchers to move beyond sex-related differences in families and consider different roles and arrangements ( Carone & Lingiardi, 2022 ). Overall, psychological research needs to embrace the complexity of nowadays plural family models, socializing the idea that there are different ways of conceiving and understanding parenting ( Monaco & Nothdurfter, 2023 ). On this note, this work represents an opportunity to extend previous knowledge confined to different-sex parents.…”

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Attentional bias to infant faces might be associated with previous care experiences and involvement in childcare in same-sex mothers

Gemignani,

Giannotti,

Rigo

et al. 2024

International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology

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“…For example, to access State benefits for families, some homosexual parent had to work harder, resorting to alternative solutions. Even if these arrangements were effective in some ways, they were intended only as temporary expedients and did not solve the problem of invisibility that Italian same-sex parent families still experience (Monaco & Nothdurfter, 2021a).…”

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Italian same‐sex parenting in times of COVID‐19: Constructing parenthood on insecure grounds

Monaco

2022

Family Relations

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This article focuses on the challenges same-sexparent families in Italy have faced in the context of the COVID-19 crisis. Background: It is universally acknowledged that Italy was the first victim of the novel coronavirus in Europe. Due to the hazards caused by the pandemic, the Italian government implemented a series of countermeasures to help families, resolving the increasingly irreconcilable conflicts between work and childcare, providing financing to the most poverty-stricken families. However, some initiatives have made it clear that in Italy, not all people have received equal benefits. Method: To further investigate and bring awareness to the issue of the vulnerability of Italian same-sex-parent families in times of COVID-19, 40 in-depth interviews were conducted online between March and June 2020 to collect data on attitudes, opinions, and behaviors at the individual level. Results: Italian homosexual fathers and mothers, due to a still uncertain regulatory framework, have been invisible in the face of a bureaucracy remaining deeply rooted in a rigid and obsolete vision of the social reality. Conclusion: Italy should take into account a possible redefinition of family both at the political and institutional levels. The concept of family is expected to be broader and closer to social reality, encompassing all the possible patterns of family that constitute a real supportive network for all people, in full respect of people's equal dignity and self-determination. Implications: A redefinition of what it means to be a family is necessary not only in the acquisition of citizenship and welfare rights of homosexual people, but above all for the

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Discovered, made visible, constructed, and left out: LGBT+ parenting in the Italian sociological debate

Cited by 11 publications

References 44 publications

Intentional Kinship through Caring Relationships, Heritage, and Identity: Adoptive Parents’ Inclusion of Non-Biological and Non-Affinal Relationships on Family Maps

Intentional Kinship through Caring Relationships, Heritage, and Identity: Adoptive Parents’ Inclusion of Non-Biological and Non-Affinal Relationships on Family Maps

Attentional bias to infant faces might be associated with previous care experiences and involvement in childcare in same-sex mothers

Italian same‐sex parenting in times of COVID‐19: Constructing parenthood on insecure grounds

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