Sentences with phrase «lesbian parent»

For psychologists conducting evaluations for custody disputes involving a gay or lesbian parent, it is important to understand the relevant law and research, ensure that personal biases do not influence the evaluation or conclusions, and consider how the nature of these cases may influence both the evaluation and the information provided to the judge in the case.

I am a gay or lesbian parent seeking child visitation rights, are there any special considerations I need to take into account?

On the contrary, the scientific research that has directly compared outcomes for children with gay and lesbian parents with outcomes for children with heterose xual parents has consistently shown that the former are as fit and capable as the latter and that their children are as psychologically healthy and well adjusted as children reared by heterose xual parents... mama k

On the contrary, the scientific research that has directly compared outcomes for children with gay and lesbian parents with outcomes for children with heterosexual parents has consistently shown that the former are as fit and capable as the latter and that their children are as psychologically healthy and well adjusted as children reared by heterosexual parents.

There appear to be no studies of children brought up by two male parents, and the few studies purporting to show that children with two lesbian mothers are in no way disadvantaged are typically flawed: they are taken from limited samples, have not followed the children's behaviour through time, and have generally been compiled solely on the lesbian parents» opinions.

On the contrary, the scientific research that has directly compared outcomes for children with gay and lesbian parents with outcomes for children with heterose xual parents has consistently shown that the former are as fit and capable as the latter and that their children are as psychologically healthy and well adjusted as children reared by heterose xual parents.

The same overbidding is at work today: The legislative proposal states that there are 3.5 million gays and lesbians in France and cites the Association of Gay and Lesbian Parents and Future Parents (APGL) to the effect that 45 percent of lesbians and 36 percent of gays desire to have children.

The same over-bidding is at work today: the legislative proposal indicates that there are 3.5 million gays and lesbians in France and cites the Association of Gay and Lesbian Parents and Future Parents (APGL) to the effect that 45 percent of lesbians and 36 percent of gays desire to have children.

Thus the «Association of Gay and Lesbian Parents and Future Parents» (APGL in French) has proposed several substitutes for the term «parent» depending on the various functions to be performed: «step - parent,» «co-parent,» «homo - parent,» «other's mother,» «biological parent,» «legal parent,» «social parent,» «second parent,» etc..

While children of gay and lesbian parents don't «become gay» any more than children of heterose.xuals, daughters of lesbian couples do display one very different behavior: They play better with male children and have more gender - neutral views of society.

-- Rainbow Kids Moms - Sabrina and Ann • Gay Fathers / Fathers First of Houston, PO Box 981053, Houston, TX 77098 - 1053, 713-782-5414 • Houston Gay & Lesbian Parents HGLP, 10400 S. Post Oak Rd., Ste. E-263, Houston, TX 77035, 713-284-4939, [email protected], www.hglp.org.

Wisconsin • Lesbian Parents Network, PO Box 8423, Madison, WI 53708 - 8423, 608-233-0102 • Wisconsin Rainbow Alliance of the Deaf, located at the GLBT Center in Milwaukee Wisconsin, www.wiscrad.org • LGBT Community Center of The Chippewa Valley 1305 Woodland Avenue Eau Claire, WI 54701 http://www.cvlgbt.org Contact Information General Email: [email protected] Public Contact: Jessica Janiuk, President, Board of Directors Senior Leader: Ann Hoeppner, Treasurer Phone Numbers Main: 715-406-4028 Fax: [phone]

To get onto Baby Buds» email list, [email protected] • Our Family Coalition, The Bay Area Gay & Lesbian Family Group, 415-981-1960, PO Box 13505, Berkeley, CA 94712 - 4505, www.ourfamily.org • Gay and Lesbian Parents of Los Angeles, # 109 - 346,7985 Santa Monica, West Hollywood, CA 90046, [phone] • Lesbian Mothers & Our Children c / o GLCSC, 1625 N. Schrader Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90028, 213-993-7608 • The Pop Luck Club, P.O. Box 69865, West Hollywood, CA 90069, tel: [phone], [email protected], www.popluckclub.org • Billy DeFrank LGBT Community Center of Santa Clara County's support / social group for Mothers and Fathers with younger children.

Kim Bergman, PhD, a licensed psychologist of 22 years, has specialized in the area of gay and lesbian parenting, parenting by choice and third party assisted reproduction for the last two decades.

• Center Families at New Paltz Pride, New York • PFLAG (Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) Conference for the Gulf States, FL • Telluride Gay Ski Week, CO • Rainbow Families of New Jersey LGBT Family Conference • Cinemarosa Queer Film Series LGBT Family Afternoon, NYC • Pride Night at the Children's Museum of Manhattan, NYC • Gay Day Family event, Orlando, FL • Independent Schools Fair & Workshops for LGBT Families, NYC • The Original GLBT Expo • FamilyPride of the South Carnival, Georgia • Pride and Joy Families Conference, Binghamton, NY • The MEGA Family Project's Creating A Family Workshop, Atlanta, GA • Omaha Gay Pride Kidz Korner, Omaha, NE • Pop Luck Club Annual Gay & Lesbian Parenting Resource Day, Los Angeles

Featured are books for LGBT parents, fun family travel stories, an LGBT kid raised by lesbian parents and more.

• Lesbian and Gay Community Center of New Orleans 2114 Decatur Street New Orleans, LA 70116 - 2013 Phone: [phone] Email: [email protected] Maine • Mothers & Kids Group PO Box 2235 S. Portland, ME 04116 • The Diversity Center c / o The Robinson Loring Job Corps Center RR # 1 Box 1727 Limestone, ME 04750 - 9743 Phone: [phone] Email: [email protected] • Equality Maine PO Box 1951 Portland, ME 04104 Phone: [phone] Fax: [phone] Email: [email protected] Website: www.equalitymaine.org / • Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center of Northern Maine PO Box 990 Caribou, ME 04736 Phone: [phone] • GLBT Parents Support Group of Maine Timothy Richardson PO Box 10901 Portland, ME 04104 Email: [email protected] Maryland • Gay and Lesbian Parenting Coalition of Metropolitan Washington 14908 Piney Grove Court North Potomac, MD 20878 • Families With Pride, Baltimore Contact Jodi Kaye by email: [email protected] or phone [phone] • Equality Maryland 1319 Apple Avenue Silver Spring, MD 20910 Phone: [phone] Toll - free: 888-440-9944 Fax: [phone] Email: [email protected] Website: www.equalitymaryland.org / • GL Parenting Coalition of Metro Washington 14908 Piney Grove Court North Potomac, MD 20878 Phone: [phone] • The GLBT Community Center of Baltimore 241 West Chase Street Baltimore, MD 21201 Phone: [phone] Fax: [phone] Email: [email protected] Website: www.glccb.org / Massachusetts

Also featured is a story about one mom's unpredictable path to building her family (with a happy India adoption ending), an article on Jackson Heights, Queens as the new neighborhood for gay and lesbian parents and an article on Pride and Joy families for upstate New York parents.

As well as bonding with the baby when sharing the breastfeeding, lesbian parents report enjoying the effects of the relaxation hormones released when lactating (resulting in lower stress levels in the parent and baby), the flexibility of having two nursing parents when one needs to absent herself occasionally or when returning to work, and the health benefits of breastfeeding such as lower rates of breast cancer, ovarian cancer and Type II diabetes (8), (9).

But the truth of the matter is that children raised by gay and lesbian parents in study after study come out faring no better or worse than their counterparts.

But gay and lesbian parents aren't the only ones that need to come out and be accepted for who they are — the children of gays and lesbians have a need to come out too.

So this June, I salute gay and lesbian parents who are following their dream to be parents and are not letting the small and feeble minded stand in their way.

Don't forget to check out the resources at the end of the book: They include organizations, support groups for lesbian and gay parents, videotapes, and recommended reading for gay and lesbian parents, their extended families, and their children, to name a few.

Laws are going up around the country to help keep gay and lesbian parents from enjoying the same benefits as other parents — which means the children also become second class citizens.

That satisfied the older child's curiosity without getting her mired in a discussion of lesbian parenting or intracervical insemination.

Ask your local parenting resource center, community center, or religious organization about groups for single parents, gay or lesbian parents, and adoptive parents.

The ruling came to resolve lawsuits involving lesbian parents, according to the Huffington Post.

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The actual number of children being raised by gay or lesbian parents is tough to estimate as many LGBTQ people keep their sexual orientation a secret to avoid harassment.

In 1990, an estimated 6 to 14 million children have gay or lesbian parents.

Klausner reflects, «The film was really the crest of the wave of the lesbian parenting movement.

«If I had been able to turn on the television and see a documentary or any kind of program about kids with other gay and lesbian parents,» she said, «that would have radically changed my life.»

She offers 10 smart tips for us parents, based on feedback from grown kids of gay and lesbian parents.

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The brief contained children's testimonies that discussed what it was like to grow up with gay and lesbian parents and how the same - sex marriage ban has affected their lives.

This puts lesbian parents on an equal footing with unmarried heterosexual parents, and -LSB-...]

The 35 stories include highly collaborative parents and those in extreme conflict, parental alienation, parents with special needs, children with special needs, straight and lesbian parents, and parents with addictions.

Courts gradually began to rule that being lesbian or gay was not a reason automatically to deny custody — even though they did not specifically protect the rights of gay and lesbian parents.

But out gay and lesbian parents and their children have been part of US society since the midtwentieth century, as Daniel Winunwe Rivers shows in Radical Relations, the first book to offer a broad history of these families from their earliest years of visibility.

So, a little while ago I opened up my blog to an «Ask Me Anything» on the ins and outs of lesbian parenting... and finally I'm going to write it (newborn life, eh).

If anyone knows of something, please send it in my direction.There is a growing number of resources for gay and lesbian parents.

Much that is bi-inclusive in that bisexuals get lumped in with gay and lesbian parents, but specific issues for bi parents are never addressed — and it's assumed bi parents are in same - gender relationships.

What types of children were placed with gay and lesbian parents?

Starting in the 1970s, however, a few state courts upheld custody rights for transgender, gay, and lesbian parents, though some still required that they not live with a partner or engage in «homosexual activities.»

(For gay and lesbian parents) How many children did you place with gay or lesbian couples?

Variations among states in the degree to which they define through statute or common law the legal relationships of spouses and sperm donors to children conceived using assisted reproductive technology compound the insecurities confronting New York lesbian parents contemplating travel or potential relocation to other jurisdictions.

After a week of meeting other gay and lesbian parents at the beach, they invited about 15 of those families to their rented house for dinner.

Gay and lesbian parents can not adopt from Colombia.

The National Association of Social Workers, with nearly 150,000 members, agrees that research on gay and lesbian parenting shows a total absence of pathological findings in their children.

Studies using diverse samples and methodologies have persuasively demonstrated that there are no systematic differences between gay or lesbian and non-gay or lesbian parents in emotional health, parenting skills, and attitudes toward parenting (Stacey & Biblarz, 2001).