Pathways to Successful Queer Stepfamily Formation

Bergeson, Carrie; Bermea, Autumn M.; Bible, Jacqueline; Matera, Kristin; Eeden‐Moorefield, Brad van; Jushak, Mike

doi:10.1080/1550428x.2019.1673866

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“…We are very aware that multiethnic and multiracial stepfamilies face unique threats and challenges in stepfamily creation, management, and development (e.g., Limb et al, 2020). We and other scholars need to find better ways to diversify our studies, including expanding the research agenda to include stepfamilies from the queer community who face unique challenges, such as managing disclosure of sexual identity (e.g., Bergeson et al, 2019).…”

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Protector and friend: Turning points and discursive constructions of the stepparent role

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Objective To understand turning points (TPs) in the development of positive stepparent–stepchild communication and relationships. Background Scholars stress the importance of communication in co‐constructing healthy stepparent–stepchild relationships. The researchers focused on positive stepparenting via understanding transformational turning point (TP) events across time. Research questions explored how stepparents with an overall positive relationship with a stepchild characterize TPs and the discursive constructions of the stepparent role. Method The team analyzed 877 pages of data from 37 in‐depth interviews with stepparents who described self‐identified TP events, reflected in visual graphs of 279 TPs. Results Data were coded into 11 TP types, focused on structural and role changes for stepparents, co‐constructed over time. The top three TP types were changes in household composition, communicating support through offering protection and being present/available, and role change, most frequently by functioning as a parent versus friend. All the TPs highlight discursive work to forge positive stepparenting roles. Conclusions The findings extend earlier studies of stepchildren's experiences and communication practices that ground resilience to manage relational resources through investments of quality time and enactment of social support. Implications Applications suggest support for stepparents to have quality interactions with stepchildren and training to develop healthy communication practices and facilitate resilience.

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“…Normative‐adaptive perspectives that shed light on resilience in complex families are the foundation of my work. Efforts to highlight the strengths of stepfamilies (and of non‐nuclear family forms more broadly) remain necessary, and those who are committed to these efforts should know that they are in good company (see Acosta, 2021; Adler‐Baeder & Higginbotham, 2020; Beckmeyer et al, 2020; Bergeson et al, 2020; Bermea et al, 2020; Braithwaite et al, 2018; Ganong & Coleman, 2018; Jensen, 2022; Oliver‐Blackburn et al, 2022; Papernow, 2018; Petren & Ferraro, 2022; Russell et al, 2022; van Eeden‐Moorefield & Pasley, 2013; Waldron et al, 2018). In my journey of working toward a more holistic understanding of stepfamily life that challenges deficit perspectives of family complexity, another theoretical home also has been foundational to my thinking and scholarship: feminist theory.…”

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“…Importantly, feminist frameworks and allied theories (e.g., critical race theory) also sensitize researchers to understanding how SNAF privileging intersects with other privileges (e.g., White privilege, heterosexual privilege) to fundamentally shape family life (see Acosta, 2021; Bergeson et al, 2020; Clinkscales, 2019; Goldberg & Allen, 2013; Moore, 2008). White parents in stepfamilies, although they may experience stigma related to their family complexity, also experience the privileges of navigating institutional spaces in a White body.…”

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Studying stepfamilies, surfacing secrets: A reflection on the private motivations behind efforts to humanize family complexity

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2023

J of Family Theo & Revie

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Feminist family scholars have long called for greater transparency of the partial perspectives embedded within family science. In this paper, I employ feminist reflexive autoethnography to unpack the private motivations that guide my research on family complexity. Using critical storytelling, I trace the personal developments that led to a research program on structurally complex familiesfamilies shaped and reshaped by divorce, separations, repartnerships, and remarriages. I explore my commitments to naming the invisible, embracing the messy, and ultimately, humanizing the complicated and meaningful emotions and relationships in families navigating structural changes. I draw upon personal, embodied experiences to theorize about issues and phenomena that have yet to be named in the (step)family scholarship. Finally, I invite others to heed the calls of feminist scholars whose work invites us to consider how private experiences can be leveraged to generate new insights into the complexities of family and social life.

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Going Nowhere Fast? A Review of Literature on Barriers to Queer Inclusion in South African Universities

Chiswa,

Mutongoza

2024

Sexuality & Culture

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Pathways to Successful Queer Stepfamily Formation

Cited by 4 publications

References 35 publications

Protector and friend: Turning points and discursive constructions of the stepparent role

Protector and friend: Turning points and discursive constructions of the stepparent role

Studying stepfamilies, surfacing secrets: A reflection on the private motivations behind efforts to humanize family complexity

Going Nowhere Fast? A Review of Literature on Barriers to Queer Inclusion in South African Universities

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