Gay and Lesbian Family Building: A Strengths Perspective of Transracial Adoption

Ausbrooks, Angela R.; Russell, Amy

doi:10.1080/1550428x.2011.564936

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“…Lesbian and gay prospective adopters may be more willing and better prepared to face the demands of raising children with a difficult past by fostering a positive adjustment after significant adversity (Walsh, 2003). Further, as Ausbrooks and Russell (2011) argued, gay and lesbian adoptive parents may be more equipped to parent an ethnic minority child by drawing from their own experiences of being a minority insofar as the challenges associated with being a sexual minority may promote lesbian and gay people's (and their children's) resilience in face of stress, stigma, and adversity (Meyer, 2015).…”

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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

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“…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). …”

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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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Adoption

Cohen

Farnia²

2015

Rutter's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

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Gay and Lesbian Family Building: A Strengths Perspective of Transracial Adoption

Cited by 10 publications

References 34 publications

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

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

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

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