Lesbian-Mother Families Formed Through Donor Insemination

Bos, Henny; Gartrell, Nanette

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-35610-1_2

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“…Alternatives to adoption for same-sex couples include artificial insemination (for female samesex couples) and surrogacy. Insemination creates the opportunity to co-reside with children from conception onward (Bos 2013). Children born through insemination are therefore less likely to have experienced a family structure transition as compared to other children of same-sex couples.…”

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“…Children of sexual minority parents can also experience stigma directly by being teased about the sexual orientation of their parents (Gartrell et al 2005). For instance, children who are teased about their parents being lesbian have lower self-confidence and increased behavioral problems (Bos 2013). Context matters in this regard given that children of lesbian mothers appear more resilient to stigma when they are attending a school that had LGBT issues included in the curriculum (Bos et al 2008).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Altogether, these changes might have augmented the stability of parents' relationships, lowered stigma-related family stress, and reduced bullying based on sex-composition of parents. Given that these factors are conducive of child development (Amato 2010;Bos 2013;Conger et al 2010;Gartrell et al 2005;Härkönen et al 2017) the question arises to what extent the outcomes of children living with same-sex parents have changed over time too.…”

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Same-Sex Parents and Children’s School Progress: An Association That Disappeared Over Time

Boertien

Bernardi

2019

Demography

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Previous research is divided as to whether children living in same-sex parent families achieve different outcomes compared to their peers. In this paper, we improve on earlier estimates of such differences and subsequently study whether and why the association between parental union sex-composition and children's school progress changed over time. Data from the American Community Survey waves 2008-2015 (N=1,952,490 including 7,792 children living with a same-sex couple) indicates that children living with same-sex couples were more likely to be behind in school in the past, but that this association disappeared over time. Changes in socioeconomic characteristics of same-sex couples played a minor role. In 2008, it was only in areas with unfavorable laws and attitudes toward same-sex couples that children living with same-sex couples were more likely to be behind in school. This was especially the case for adopted children. In more recent periods, no effect of parental union sex composition on school progress is observed within any area or among any group studied. Based on where and when these changes took place, it is suggested that changing attitudes toward same-sex couples might have played an important role in equalizing school progress across groups.3

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Same-Sex Parents and Children’s School Progress: An Association That Disappeared Over Time

Boertien

Bernardi

2019

Demography

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“…LGBQ parents and prospective parents living in contexts without legal protections have worse mental health outcomes compared to their peers with legal protections (Bauermeister, 2014;Bos, 2013;Goldberg & Smith, 2011;Shapiro, Peterson, & Stewart, 2009). For instance, Bauermeister (2014) analyzed survey data from 1,487 gay and bisexual men.…”

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Law and Family Formation Among LGBQ‐Parent Families

Kazyak¹,

Woodell²,

Scherrer³

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Family Court Review

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This article addresses how the law affects family formation among families with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer (LGBQ) parents in the United States. Our discussion draws on a socio‐legal approach to law that focuses not only on the law on the books (what we refer to as “legal barriers”) but also on issues like how the law is practiced, how people experience the law in everyday life, and how the law serves as an interpretive framework through which people understand themselves and their families (what we refer to as “social barriers”). In our review, we highlight how attorneys can play a role in valuing and advancing rights for LGBQ‐parent families and LGBTQ prospective parents.

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“…I also am indebted to the growing field of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) families research (e.g. Bos, 2013;Gabb, 2013;Nordqvist, 2014;Patterson and Riskind, 2010), which, although at times is heteronormative and limited, has named and claimed a space for LGBTQ families within social science inquiry. While much of the valuable knowledge developed by these and other researchers relies on traditional interviews, ethnography, and surveys, most also leverages a combination of methods across multiple sites and with varying invested parties, and so a queer method comprising visual and digital data and striving to explicate new researcher/ participant relations is hopefully a welcome addition along the path they have forged.…”

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Pregnant with possibility: The importance of visual data in (re)presenting queer women’s experiences of reproduction

Holland

2019

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In this article, I discuss a queer method for uniting visual sociology, digital sociology, and constructivist grounded theory to conduct innovative research into how lesbian couples experience the transition to first-time parenthood, based on my longitudinal doctoral research in sociology. I first attend to the complex and unexpected unfolding of the research design, which evolved with the needs of the population to move from adapted photovoice interviews to the use of textual-visual online pregnancy journal data in a process emblematic of queer methodology. I then consider the contributions that visual data can make to the study of reproduction, especially where marginalized populations are concerned, by using my data to demonstrate how visuals create what is possible, rework oppressive versions of time, and challenge controlling images imposed on reproducing bodies. I argue here not just for the significance of images but for the significance of taking seriously the products and processes that communities find meaningful, and for evolving our research methods and methodologies to centralize marginalized ways of existing, knowing, and archiving experiences of reproduction and family life.

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Lesbian-Mother Families Formed Through Donor Insemination

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Cited by 45 publications

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Same-Sex Parents and Children’s School Progress: An Association That Disappeared Over Time

Same-Sex Parents and Children’s School Progress: An Association That Disappeared Over Time

Law and Family Formation Among LGBQ‐Parent Families

Pregnant with possibility: The importance of visual data in (re)presenting queer women’s experiences of reproduction

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