The Queer Parent: Everything You Need to Know From Gay to Ze

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Stacey and Biblarz and Herek stress that the sexual orientation and gender identification of children is of limited relevance to discussions of parental fitness or policies based on the same. The Queer Parent: Everything You Need To Know From Gay to Ze is packed with expert advice through an LGBTQ+ lens, ranging from fostering to fertility treatment, to dealing with homophobia to creating a home. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not then work. Sandi ToksvigThis informative, funny and empowering book from the hosts of the award-winning podcast Some Families is the must-have parenting toolkit for the LGTBQ+ community, their friends, family and allies.

The Queer Parent: a groundbreaking book to help LGBTQ+ families

Lynch’s use of the plural “motherhoods” stands in proud contrast to that, a quiet but firm assertion that the idea of a single “mother figure” needn’t be fixed; that it can be up to us how we interpret the role. Policy debates will be impoverished if this important source of knowledge is simply dismissed as a 'he said, she said' squabble. These feelings evolved as our relationship did, and one day, it just felt like the right time to stop talking and start doing.Due to the increased risk of harm experienced, children of LGBT parents and LGBT students can also experience increased levels of stress, anxiety, and self-esteem issues.

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parenting, but being LGBTQ+ when you’re a parent does bring with it a host of conundrums that mainstream guides – which tend to assume heterosexuality – do not address. the religious affiliation of the agency if any, and the disposition of area supervisors and placement workers.The title caught my attention because I think there’s something very timely and profound about the act of being a gay or queer parent today. I think this is also a reason why the podcast resonates for so many cis-het parents, who are curious and want to educate themselves on what it means to become a queer parent. Regarding the transmission of gender roles, LGBTQ parents are caught between two contrasting images: "they are portrayed as either inherently different from, or essentially the same as, heterosexual families".

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Friends and community strengthen my family by fulfilling those different roles and expanding my worldview, which is vital to being an open-minded human," Clark says.

The thing Lotte and I love the most about our experiences both writing the book and recording our podcasts is discovering the incredible stories from our community. I don't think any of us expected the relationship to become as prominent as it did in the short time we've all known each other. Here, GAY TIMES speaks with Stu to discuss the origins of the book, his process bringing it all together, and the response he’s received from queer readers. A 2013 statement from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry statesthat children of LGBT parents do not have any differences in their gender role behaviors in comparison to those observed in heterosexual family structures.

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Although studies of gay fathers and their children have been conducted (Patterson, 2004), less is known about children of gay fathers than about children of lesbian mothers. As is often the case, it’s the surrounding culture that has posed challenges, from midwives assuming Eley was Nell’s mum (“She’s younger than me! If a friend could love me the same way—a relationship that's unbound by blood or law—then I thought my own family would too.Data on children of parents who identify as bisexual are still not available, and information about children of non-White lesbian or gay parents is hard to find (but see Wainright et al.