Tolerance Versus Support: Perceptions of Residential Community Climate Among LGB Parents

Oswald, Ramona Faith; Routon, Jasmine M.; McGuire, Jenifer K.; Holman, Elizabeth

doi:10.1111/fare.12292

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“…This study also revealed that support mechanisms available through gay parenting groups provide crucial resources for queer families, adding to findings from Oswald, Routon, McGuire, and Holman (2018) on the importance of personal and social supports within the context of positive community climates for providing a sense of being supported. This was especially true for gay fathers who had children via heterosexual unions and who were facing immediate crises of family disillusionment, depression, and disconnection from their communities of origin.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 52%

Gay Fathers on the Margins: Race, Class, Marital Status, and Pathway to Parenthood

Carroll

2018

Family Relations

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Objective To investigate stratification within gay fatherhood communities. Background As laws and attitudes have become friendlier to queer families in recent decades, gay fathers have experienced increased visibility in and through both media and scholarship. However, this visibility has been distributed unevenly along normative patterns of marital status, race, class, and kinship. Method Participant observation of gay fathers groups was conducted in California, Texas, and Utah over a period of 61 months. Using theoretical sampling of group members, 56 gay fathers also participated in semistructured interviews. Themes were identified and refined through a 3‐stage iterative coding process, consistent with a grounded theory approach. Results Findings suggest that single gay fathers, gay fathers of color, and gay fathers who had children in heterosexual contexts occupy marginalized statuses within the gay fatherhood community. Gay fathers develop distinct mechanisms of resilience to respond to the challenges associated with their marginalization. Conclusion The experiences of gay fathers on the margins highlight the negative consequences of gay fatherhood discourses that reproduce family normativity. The resources available through gay parenting groups simultaneously played a role in gay fathers' well‐being, resilience, and marginalization. Implications Efforts to expand opportunities for gay families should consider coalitions with other marginalized family forms. Gay parents who had children in heterosexual unions should be specifically targeted through gay parenting outreach.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 52%

Gay Fathers on the Margins: Race, Class, Marital Status, and Pathway to Parenthood

Carroll

2018

Family Relations

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“…Perhaps most notably, research in the past decade highlights the unique role of social stigma and social support in SGM parenting dynamics. Supportive social and legal communities significantly improve experiences of social stigma, depression, and anxiety (Bos, Knox, van Rijn‐van Gelderen, & Gartrell, ; Goldberg & Smith, ; Oswald, Routon, McGuire, & Holman, ). Although one study of 92 adoptive families reports that parents in same‐sex and different‐sex couples have similar amounts of social support from network members (Sumontha, Farr, & Patterson, ), most other research shows that sexual‐minority parents experience high social stigma and less social support than their heterosexual counterparts.…”

Section: Sexual‐ and Gender‐minority Parenthoodmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sexual‐ and Gender‐Minority Families: A 2010 to 2020 Decade in Review

Reczek

2020

J of Marriage and Family

178

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This paper critically reviews research on sexual and gender minority (SGM) families, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, asexual, intersex, and other (LGBTQAI+) families, in the past decade (2010–2020). First, this paper details the three primary subareas that make up the majority of research on SGM families: (1) SGM family of origin relationships, (2) SGM intimate relationships, and (3) SGM‐parent families. Next, this paper highlights three main gaps in this decade's research: (1) a focus on gay, lesbian, and same‐sex families (and to a lesser extent bisexual and transgender families) and a lack of attention to the diverse family ties of single SGM people as well as intersex, asexual, queer, gender non‐binary/non‐conforming, polyamorous, and other SGM families; (2) an emphasis on white, socioeconomically advantaged SGM people and a failure to account for the significant racial‐ethnic and socioeconomic diversity in the SGM population; and (3) a lack of integration of SGM experiences across the life course, from childhood to old age. Future research should refine the measurement and analysis of SGM family ties with novel theory and data across the methodological spectrum.

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“…Queer theory places sexuality at the center of analysis through which social, political, and cultural phenomena are examined (Edgar & Sedgwick, ). Queer theory connects the personal, or identity, to local (Acosta, ; Fish & Russell, 2018; Oswald, Routon, McGuire, & Holman, ) and larger sociopolitical and institutional contexts (e.g., Widiss, ). Queer theory interrogates the privileged statuses of traditional constructions of sex, gender, femininity, masculinity, heteronormativity, and heteropatriarchy (e.g., Jagose, ).…”

Section: Situating the Critical Theoretical Terrain Of Gender Feminimentioning

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Gender, Feminist, and Intersectional Perspectives on Families: A Decade in Review

Few‐Demo

Allen

2020

J of Marriage and Family

100

106

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This review of the gender, feminist, and intersectional literature on families from 2010 to 2019 examines the following three streams of research, theorizing, and praxis: (a) the framing of gender as systemic social stratification and inequalities, (b) the application of feminist perspectives and praxis to highlight and change power disparities in private and public spheres; and (c) the application of intersectionality perspectives to examine and redress social inequities, privilege, and oppression. Collectively, these streams represent variations of a critical theoretical perspective on families. This article has the following three aims: (a) examine how the critical approaches of gender, feminist, and intersectional theories have been used to frame the study of family life during the past decade; (b) identify and assess empirical exemplars in the family literature that highlight the explicit application of these critical approaches; and (c) discuss future directions to push the study of families forward toward more inclusivity and relevance.

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Tolerance Versus Support: Perceptions of Residential Community Climate Among LGB Parents

Abstract: LGB parents' perceptions of climate reveal specific community features that need to be strengthened to promote family well-being.

Cited by 18 publications

References 48 publications

Gay Fathers on the Margins: Race, Class, Marital Status, and Pathway to Parenthood

Gay Fathers on the Margins: Race, Class, Marital Status, and Pathway to Parenthood

Sexual‐ and Gender‐Minority Families: A 2010 to 2020 Decade in Review

Gender, Feminist, and Intersectional Perspectives on Families: A Decade in Review

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