While these findings from the National Longitudinal
Lesbian Family Study are positive, they risk blinding us to the fact that children of LGBT parents may still face certain unique issues and challenges.
Not exact matches
A
study from 2009 now getting buzz on the blogosphere explored the role marriage plays in the
lesbian wage premium, and found that women who don't expect to be part of a traditional
family spend more time investing in labour participation through on - the - job training and working longer hours than household skills.
While
family scholars acknowledge that
studies in Sweden and Britain have found more instability among same - sex couples, they would contend that research, such as a new
study from Bowling Green State University, also suggests that gay and
lesbian couples can enjoy more stable relationships when communities extend legal and cultural support to them.
Extending their prior work on gender and
family, Biblarz and Judith Stacey of NYU analyzed relevant
studies about parenting, including available research on single - mother and single - father households, gay male parents and
lesbian parents.
The
study, performed by Ms Somers and colleagues at the Ghent University Hospital and Ghent University in Belgium, included 34
lesbian and heterosexual couples using sperm donation to start or extend their
families who were interviewed about their treatment between 2012 and 2013.
Nearly 100 two - parent
families were included in the
study, half had gay or
lesbian parents.
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Family Assessments and Child Matching with LGBT
Families [Presentation Slides](PDF - 171 KB) Kahn (2010) Provides best practices for conducting homes studies and placements with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) f
Families [Presentation Slides](PDF - 171 KB) Kahn (2010) Provides best practices for conducting homes
studies and placements with
lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT)
familiesfamilies.
In a peer - reviewed article that has just been accepted for publication in the Journal of Marital and
Family Therapy (JMFT), Certified Gottman Therapist Salvatore Garanzini and Alapaki Yee of the Gay Couples Institute, in collaboration with Drs. John and Julie Gottman of The Gottman Institute, report the groundbreaking results of a five - year
study with 106 gay and
lesbian couples.
In September of 2017, Certified Gottman Therapist Salvatore Garanzini and Alapaki Yee, MFT, along with Drs. John and Julie Gottman, published the results of the first outcome research
study on couples therapy with gay and
lesbian couples in the Journal of Marital and
Family Therapy.
One
study comparing interracial and same - race
lesbian couples found no differences in reported levels of stress or social support between those in interracial or same - race relationships.3 In a separate
study, gay men in Black / White interracial relationships reported little resistance toward their relationships from friends, mixed reactions from
family, and few problems dealing with cultural differences with their partners.4
The
study focuses on heterosexual
families as well as those headed by
lesbian or gay parents.
Barriers and Success Factors in Adoption from Foster Care: Perspectives of
Lesbian and Gay Families (PDF - 420 KB) National Resource Center for Diligent Recruitment at AdoptUSKids (2013) Provides findings from follow - up interviews with 10 lesbian and gay families who participated in a study that investigated barriers faced by families in the process of adopting a child from foste
Lesbian and Gay
Families (PDF - 420 KB) National Resource Center for Diligent Recruitment at AdoptUSKids (2013) Provides findings from follow - up interviews with 10 lesbian and gay families who participated in a study that investigated barriers faced by families in the process of adopting a child from fost
Families (PDF - 420 KB) National Resource Center for Diligent Recruitment at AdoptUSKids (2013) Provides findings from follow - up interviews with 10
lesbian and gay families who participated in a study that investigated barriers faced by families in the process of adopting a child from foste
lesbian and gay
families who participated in a study that investigated barriers faced by families in the process of adopting a child from fost
families who participated in a
study that investigated barriers faced by
families in the process of adopting a child from fost
families in the process of adopting a child from foster care.
In this section you will find basic resources about who can adopt, things to consider before adoption, an explanation of the many adoption choices available (including domestic, intercountry, and open adoption), home
study requirements, finding an agency, adoption by different types of
families (including single; stepparent; transracial / transcultural; military; or
lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT)
families), and assistance with adoption expenses.
The aim of the present investigation was to examine the quality of parent — child relationships and the psychological adjustment of children in female - headed
families with no father present from birth or early infancy;
families headed by single heterosexual mothers (solo mothers) and
families headed by
lesbian mothers were
studied in comparison with two - parent heterosexual
families.
For example... data that finds that delinquency is twice as high in cases where the father is absent than when he is present... no such problem has been found in
studies of
lesbian two - parent
families.
A
study released in May 2007 by the Department of Justice (Canada), Children's Development of Social Competence Across
Family Types, points out that «A few
studies suggest that children with two
lesbian mothers may have marginally better social competence than children in «traditional nuclear»
families, even fewer
studies show the opposite, and most
studies fail to find any differences.»