D Dempsey
Biographic Data
| ID | 15794 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D Dempsey |
| GIVEN NAMES | D |
| FAMILY NAME | Dempsey |
| SIGNATURE | DEMPSEY D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swinburne University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0343-6681 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 131 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Encouraging ‘good’ motherhood: Self-tracking and the provision of support on apps for parents of premature infants
In recent years, there has been an increase in the use of apps that support the transition to parenthood. Research on the experiences of parents of premature children who have returned home from hospital points to the need for ongoing support as they navigate the transition to parenthood without the support of neonatal intensive care staff. For parents of premature infants, these platforms can act as wellsprings of information and also provide em…
Son Preference in a Welfare State: The Case of Vietnamese Australian Families
Son preference has traditionally been a fundamental cultural value in Vietnamese families, and this preference appears to have intensified in Vietnam in recent years. The key explanation for why parents prefer sons to daughters is that Vietnamese families embrace Confucian notions of gender hierarchy. Based on in-depth interviews with twenty first-generation Vietnamese migrant parents from refugee and skilled migrant backgrounds, and 18 Vietnames…
Beyond secrecy and openness: Telling a relational story about children’s best interests in donor-conceived families
Secret Shame-Male Infertility and Donor Conception in the Wake of Retrospective Legislative Change
Historically, sperm donation was shrouded in secrecy to protect the normative family and the perceived vulnerability of infertile men. However, openness about donor conception is increasingly encouraged, in acknowledging that donor-conceived people may benefit from having access to information about their biogenetic origins. Since 2017 in the state of Victoria, Australia, donor-conceived people have been able to access previously anonymous donor …
Lesbian, gay and bisexual homelessness in Australia: Risk and resilience factors to consider in policy and practice
Lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) people are more likely than heterosexual people to experience homelessness. The study aimed to compare risk and resilience factors commonly associated with homelessness according to sexual identity to inform more LGB-inclusive and targeted policy and service provision in this area. The study involved analysis of data from two Australian surveys: the General Social Survey 2014 (n = 17,401) and the Journeys Home stud…
A perfect storm of intervention? Lesbian and cisgender queer women conceiving through Australian fertility clinics
Amendments to various state laws have made it easier for cisgendered lesbian, bisexual and queer (LBQ) women to access Australian fertility clinics. When women conceive through clinics, they generally use intrauterine insemination (IUI) or in vitro fertilisation (IVF). IUI is cheaper and requires less invasive medical intervention than IVF. A recent survey found that almost 60% of Australian cisgendered LBQ women who conceived with clinical assis…
Family relationships and LGB first homelessness in Australia: What do we know and where should we go
Family conflict is a well-documented causal factor in the international literature on youth homelessness. Less is known about how childhood experiences within family of origin contribute to first homelessness among Australian lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) young people. In this article, which draws on an analysis of the Australian Journeys Home survey, we argue that homelessness risk among LGB young people is cumulative an…
Applications to statutory donor registers in Victoria, Australia: Information sought and expectations of contact
From Stranger to Family or Something in Between: Donor Linking in an Era of Retrospective Access to Anonymous Sperm Donor Records in Victoria, Australia
In June 2015, the state of Victoria, Australia retrospectively opened its sperm and egg donors’ records, becoming only the second jurisdiction in the world to do so and the first where substantial pre-legislative records are available and stored in a central register. The new legislation gave donor-conceived adults and donors who were conceived or donated under conditions of anonymity (ie prior to 1988) the right to apply to the state’s Central R…
Surnaming Children Born to Lesbian and Heterosexual Couples: Displaying Family Legitimacy to Diverse Audiences
Surnaming practices are a case study of change and continuity in patrilineal conventions in families and also alert us to the challenges of negotiating familial identities in an era of family diversity. Using data from two Australian sources, 430,753 Victorian birth registrations and 43 in-depth interviews with heterosexual and lesbian parents, we explore continuity and breaks with convention in surnaming children. For married and unmarried heter…
Culturally embedded health beliefs, self-care and the use of anti-ageing medicine among Australian and Japanese older adults
Adopting Kleinman's and Lock's ideas that there are cultural variations in understandings of health care and the medicalisation of ageing bodies, this study compares and contrasts older adults' use of anti-ageing medicine in two cultural settings. Based on 42 interviews conducted in Australia and Japan with adults aged 60 and over, findings revealed distinct pathways to initiating anti-ageing medicine use between the two cohorts which reflect dif…
First names and social distinction: Middle-class naming practices in Australia
Naming practices provide a novel way to explore contemporary gender and class processes in Australia. Names are important everyday symbols of social location and signify family history, gender, class, ethnicity and religion. In an individualised society a name is the ultimate personal 'brand' and is used to locate children in social space. In this article we draw on qualitative interviews with 41 parents to focus on class and gender distinctions …
Grandparents doing gender: Experiences of grandmothers and grandfathers caring for grandchildren in Australia
Reliance on grandparents for children's informal care is very popular in Australia. Yet little is known about the gendered dynamics of grandparental care. This study, based on 3000 grandparents taking part in Wave 7 of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics Survey (HILDA) and 14 in-depth interviews with grandparents, reveals that gendered inequalities associated with providing childcare significantly influence the lives of older Australians, p…
Surrogacy, gay male couples and the significance of biogenetic paternity
Intentionally planned parenthood by gay male couples through commercial and altruistic surrogacy is gaining momentum in Australia and abroad. Very little is known about this group of male parents, including the relational considerations important to them in forming families through surrogacy. This paper, based on in-depth interviews with six Australian gay male couples who utilized altruistic surrogacy in the state of Victoria, and commercial sur…
More like a donor or more like a father? Gay men’s concepts of relatedness to children
Lesbian mothers internationally have negotiated informal donor insemination arrangements with gay men since the earliest days of planned lesbian parenthood. In recent years, the relational status to children of these men has been subject to increasing legal and research scrutiny. In this article, based on interviews with Australian gay men, the various meanings of biological relatedness to children are explored from the men’s perspective. Of part…
Fatherhood in the 21st Century
Editorial for a special issue of the 'Journal of Family Studies' on fatherhood in the early 21st century
Gay male couples' paternal involvement in lesbian-parented families
Gay male couples’ paternal involvement in lesbian-parented families
Australian gay men often assist lesbian friends and acquaintances to have families through known donor insemination arrangements. This paper discusses how these men’s paternal involvement is negotiated and enacted vis-a-vis that of their same-sex partner and the children’s mothers. It is based on three detailed case studies taken from a 2007–2008 study of 14 gay biological fathers and their partners. I argue that these unconventional family relat…
Conceiving and Negotiating Reproductive Relationships: Lesbians and Gay Men Forming Families with Children
Lesbian and gay parented families are often viewed through the lens of 'families of choice', which assumes they are self-reflexive and innovative in structure. In recent years, some lesbians and gay men have informally negotiated reproductive relationships with friends or acquaintances. The varied kinship assumptions underpinning such relationships are the focus of this article. Three main approaches to family formation are identified: 'standard …
ART eligibility for lesbians and single heterosexual women in Victoria: How medicalisation influenced a political, legal and policy debate
This article analyses the seven year long political, policy and law reform debate over eligibility criteria for assisted reproductive technology (ART), emphasising the ways in which medicalised discourse and assumptions framed the arguments advanced by various stakeholders. It argues that despite the positive political, social justice and health gains for lesbian and gay prospective parents and their children that were ultimately achieved, the ca…
Donor, Father or Parent? Conceiving Paternity in the Australian Family Court
Planned parenthood within the international lesbian and gay communities has attracted considerable attention and controversy in the past decade. On 5 April 2002, Guest J of the Family Court of Australia acknowledged a lesbian couple as resident parents of 2-year-old 'Patrick'. This judgement was remarkable in that it signalled a break with the well-documented international legal non-recognition of lesbian non-biological parents. However, the judg…
'I'd never share a needle'…[but I often have unsafe sex]: Considering the paradox of young people's sex and drugs talk
’I’d never share a needle’...[but I often have unsafe sex]: Considering the paradox of young people’s sex and drugs talk
Surrogacy, gay male couples and the significance of biogenetic paternity
Intentionally planned parenthood by gay male couples through commercial and altruistic surrogacy is gaining momentum in Australia and abroad. Very little is known about this group of male parents, including the relational considerations important to them in forming families through surrogacy. This paper, based on in-depth interviews with six Australian gay male couples who utilized altruistic surrogacy in the state of Victoria, and commercial sur…
Donor, Father or Parent? Conceiving Paternity in the Australian Family Court
Planned parenthood within the international lesbian and gay communities has attracted considerable attention and controversy in the past decade. On 5 April 2002, Guest J of the Family Court of Australia acknowledged a lesbian couple as resident parents of 2-year-old 'Patrick'. This judgement was remarkable in that it signalled a break with the well-documented international legal non-recognition of lesbian non-biological parents. However, the judg…
Grandparents doing gender: Experiences of grandmothers and grandfathers caring for grandchildren in Australia
Reliance on grandparents for children's informal care is very popular in Australia. Yet little is known about the gendered dynamics of grandparental care. This study, based on 3000 grandparents taking part in Wave 7 of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics Survey (HILDA) and 14 in-depth interviews with grandparents, reveals that gendered inequalities associated with providing childcare significantly influence the lives of older Australians, p…
Conceiving and Negotiating Reproductive Relationships: Lesbians and Gay Men Forming Families with Children
Lesbian and gay parented families are often viewed through the lens of 'families of choice', which assumes they are self-reflexive and innovative in structure. In recent years, some lesbians and gay men have informally negotiated reproductive relationships with friends or acquaintances. The varied kinship assumptions underpinning such relationships are the focus of this article. Three main approaches to family formation are identified: 'standard …
Surnaming Children Born to Lesbian and Heterosexual Couples: Displaying Family Legitimacy to Diverse Audiences
Surnaming practices are a case study of change and continuity in patrilineal conventions in families and also alert us to the challenges of negotiating familial identities in an era of family diversity. Using data from two Australian sources, 430,753 Victorian birth registrations and 43 in-depth interviews with heterosexual and lesbian parents, we explore continuity and breaks with convention in surnaming children. For married and unmarried heter…
Fatherhood in the 21st Century
Editorial for a special issue of the 'Journal of Family Studies' on fatherhood in the early 21st century
Lesbian, gay and bisexual homelessness in Australia: Risk and resilience factors to consider in policy and practice
Lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) people are more likely than heterosexual people to experience homelessness. The study aimed to compare risk and resilience factors commonly associated with homelessness according to sexual identity to inform more LGB-inclusive and targeted policy and service provision in this area. The study involved analysis of data from two Australian surveys: the General Social Survey 2014 (n = 17,401) and the Journeys Home stud…
Gay male couples’ paternal involvement in lesbian-parented families
Australian gay men often assist lesbian friends and acquaintances to have families through known donor insemination arrangements. This paper discusses how these men’s paternal involvement is negotiated and enacted vis-a-vis that of their same-sex partner and the children’s mothers. It is based on three detailed case studies taken from a 2007–2008 study of 14 gay biological fathers and their partners. I argue that these unconventional family relat…
ART eligibility for lesbians and single heterosexual women in Victoria: How medicalisation influenced a political, legal and policy debate
This article analyses the seven year long political, policy and law reform debate over eligibility criteria for assisted reproductive technology (ART), emphasising the ways in which medicalised discourse and assumptions framed the arguments advanced by various stakeholders. It argues that despite the positive political, social justice and health gains for lesbian and gay prospective parents and their children that were ultimately achieved, the ca…
First names and social distinction: Middle-class naming practices in Australia
Naming practices provide a novel way to explore contemporary gender and class processes in Australia. Names are important everyday symbols of social location and signify family history, gender, class, ethnicity and religion. In an individualised society a name is the ultimate personal 'brand' and is used to locate children in social space. In this article we draw on qualitative interviews with 41 parents to focus on class and gender distinctions …
Family relationships and LGB first homelessness in Australia: What do we know and where should we go
Family conflict is a well-documented causal factor in the international literature on youth homelessness. Less is known about how childhood experiences within family of origin contribute to first homelessness among Australian lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) young people. In this article, which draws on an analysis of the Australian Journeys Home survey, we argue that homelessness risk among LGB young people is cumulative an…
From Stranger to Family or Something in Between: Donor Linking in an Era of Retrospective Access to Anonymous Sperm Donor Records in Victoria, Australia
In June 2015, the state of Victoria, Australia retrospectively opened its sperm and egg donors’ records, becoming only the second jurisdiction in the world to do so and the first where substantial pre-legislative records are available and stored in a central register. The new legislation gave donor-conceived adults and donors who were conceived or donated under conditions of anonymity (ie prior to 1988) the right to apply to the state’s Central R…
Culturally embedded health beliefs, self-care and the use of anti-ageing medicine among Australian and Japanese older adults
Adopting Kleinman's and Lock's ideas that there are cultural variations in understandings of health care and the medicalisation of ageing bodies, this study compares and contrasts older adults' use of anti-ageing medicine in two cultural settings. Based on 42 interviews conducted in Australia and Japan with adults aged 60 and over, findings revealed distinct pathways to initiating anti-ageing medicine use between the two cohorts which reflect dif…
Secret Shame-Male Infertility and Donor Conception in the Wake of Retrospective Legislative Change
Historically, sperm donation was shrouded in secrecy to protect the normative family and the perceived vulnerability of infertile men. However, openness about donor conception is increasingly encouraged, in acknowledging that donor-conceived people may benefit from having access to information about their biogenetic origins. Since 2017 in the state of Victoria, Australia, donor-conceived people have been able to access previously anonymous donor …
'I'd never share a needle'…[but I often have unsafe sex]: Considering the paradox of young people's sex and drugs talk
’I’d never share a needle’...[but I often have unsafe sex]: Considering the paradox of young people’s sex and drugs talk
Donor, Father or Parent? Conceiving Paternity in the Australian Family Court
Planned parenthood within the international lesbian and gay communities has attracted considerable attention and controversy in the past decade. On 5 April 2002, Guest J of the Family Court of Australia acknowledged a lesbian couple as resident parents of 2-year-old 'Patrick'. This judgement was remarkable in that it signalled a break with the well-documented international legal non-recognition of lesbian non-biological parents. However, the judg…
ART eligibility for lesbians and single heterosexual women in Victoria: How medicalisation influenced a political, legal and policy debate
This article analyses the seven year long political, policy and law reform debate over eligibility criteria for assisted reproductive technology (ART), emphasising the ways in which medicalised discourse and assumptions framed the arguments advanced by various stakeholders. It argues that despite the positive political, social justice and health gains for lesbian and gay prospective parents and their children that were ultimately achieved, the ca…
Conceiving and Negotiating Reproductive Relationships: Lesbians and Gay Men Forming Families with Children
Lesbian and gay parented families are often viewed through the lens of 'families of choice', which assumes they are self-reflexive and innovative in structure. In recent years, some lesbians and gay men have informally negotiated reproductive relationships with friends or acquaintances. The varied kinship assumptions underpinning such relationships are the focus of this article. Three main approaches to family formation are identified: 'standard …
More like a donor or more like a father? Gay men’s concepts of relatedness to children
Lesbian mothers internationally have negotiated informal donor insemination arrangements with gay men since the earliest days of planned lesbian parenthood. In recent years, the relational status to children of these men has been subject to increasing legal and research scrutiny. In this article, based on interviews with Australian gay men, the various meanings of biological relatedness to children are explored from the men’s perspective. Of part…
Fatherhood in the 21st Century
Editorial for a special issue of the 'Journal of Family Studies' on fatherhood in the early 21st century
Gay male couples' paternal involvement in lesbian-parented families
Gay male couples’ paternal involvement in lesbian-parented families
Australian gay men often assist lesbian friends and acquaintances to have families through known donor insemination arrangements. This paper discusses how these men’s paternal involvement is negotiated and enacted vis-a-vis that of their same-sex partner and the children’s mothers. It is based on three detailed case studies taken from a 2007–2008 study of 14 gay biological fathers and their partners. I argue that these unconventional family relat…
Surrogacy, gay male couples and the significance of biogenetic paternity
Intentionally planned parenthood by gay male couples through commercial and altruistic surrogacy is gaining momentum in Australia and abroad. Very little is known about this group of male parents, including the relational considerations important to them in forming families through surrogacy. This paper, based on in-depth interviews with six Australian gay male couples who utilized altruistic surrogacy in the state of Victoria, and commercial sur…
Grandparents doing gender: Experiences of grandmothers and grandfathers caring for grandchildren in Australia
Reliance on grandparents for children's informal care is very popular in Australia. Yet little is known about the gendered dynamics of grandparental care. This study, based on 3000 grandparents taking part in Wave 7 of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics Survey (HILDA) and 14 in-depth interviews with grandparents, reveals that gendered inequalities associated with providing childcare significantly influence the lives of older Australians, p…
First names and social distinction: Middle-class naming practices in Australia
Naming practices provide a novel way to explore contemporary gender and class processes in Australia. Names are important everyday symbols of social location and signify family history, gender, class, ethnicity and religion. In an individualised society a name is the ultimate personal 'brand' and is used to locate children in social space. In this article we draw on qualitative interviews with 41 parents to focus on class and gender distinctions …
Surnaming Children Born to Lesbian and Heterosexual Couples: Displaying Family Legitimacy to Diverse Audiences
Surnaming practices are a case study of change and continuity in patrilineal conventions in families and also alert us to the challenges of negotiating familial identities in an era of family diversity. Using data from two Australian sources, 430,753 Victorian birth registrations and 43 in-depth interviews with heterosexual and lesbian parents, we explore continuity and breaks with convention in surnaming children. For married and unmarried heter…
Culturally embedded health beliefs, self-care and the use of anti-ageing medicine among Australian and Japanese older adults
Adopting Kleinman's and Lock's ideas that there are cultural variations in understandings of health care and the medicalisation of ageing bodies, this study compares and contrasts older adults' use of anti-ageing medicine in two cultural settings. Based on 42 interviews conducted in Australia and Japan with adults aged 60 and over, findings revealed distinct pathways to initiating anti-ageing medicine use between the two cohorts which reflect dif…
Applications to statutory donor registers in Victoria, Australia: Information sought and expectations of contact
From Stranger to Family or Something in Between: Donor Linking in an Era of Retrospective Access to Anonymous Sperm Donor Records in Victoria, Australia
In June 2015, the state of Victoria, Australia retrospectively opened its sperm and egg donors’ records, becoming only the second jurisdiction in the world to do so and the first where substantial pre-legislative records are available and stored in a central register. The new legislation gave donor-conceived adults and donors who were conceived or donated under conditions of anonymity (ie prior to 1988) the right to apply to the state’s Central R…
A perfect storm of intervention? Lesbian and cisgender queer women conceiving through Australian fertility clinics
Amendments to various state laws have made it easier for cisgendered lesbian, bisexual and queer (LBQ) women to access Australian fertility clinics. When women conceive through clinics, they generally use intrauterine insemination (IUI) or in vitro fertilisation (IVF). IUI is cheaper and requires less invasive medical intervention than IVF. A recent survey found that almost 60% of Australian cisgendered LBQ women who conceived with clinical assis…
Family relationships and LGB first homelessness in Australia: What do we know and where should we go
Family conflict is a well-documented causal factor in the international literature on youth homelessness. Less is known about how childhood experiences within family of origin contribute to first homelessness among Australian lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) young people. In this article, which draws on an analysis of the Australian Journeys Home survey, we argue that homelessness risk among LGB young people is cumulative an…
Lesbian, gay and bisexual homelessness in Australia: Risk and resilience factors to consider in policy and practice
Lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) people are more likely than heterosexual people to experience homelessness. The study aimed to compare risk and resilience factors commonly associated with homelessness according to sexual identity to inform more LGB-inclusive and targeted policy and service provision in this area. The study involved analysis of data from two Australian surveys: the General Social Survey 2014 (n = 17,401) and the Journeys Home stud…
Encouraging ‘good’ motherhood: Self-tracking and the provision of support on apps for parents of premature infants
In recent years, there has been an increase in the use of apps that support the transition to parenthood. Research on the experiences of parents of premature children who have returned home from hospital points to the need for ongoing support as they navigate the transition to parenthood without the support of neonatal intensive care staff. For parents of premature infants, these platforms can act as wellsprings of information and also provide em…
Son Preference in a Welfare State: The Case of Vietnamese Australian Families
Son preference has traditionally been a fundamental cultural value in Vietnamese families, and this preference appears to have intensified in Vietnam in recent years. The key explanation for why parents prefer sons to daughters is that Vietnamese families embrace Confucian notions of gender hierarchy. Based on in-depth interviews with twenty first-generation Vietnamese migrant parents from refugee and skilled migrant backgrounds, and 18 Vietnames…
Beyond secrecy and openness: Telling a relational story about children’s best interests in donor-conceived families
Secret Shame-Male Infertility and Donor Conception in the Wake of Retrospective Legislative Change
Historically, sperm donation was shrouded in secrecy to protect the normative family and the perceived vulnerability of infertile men. However, openness about donor conception is increasingly encouraged, in acknowledging that donor-conceived people may benefit from having access to information about their biogenetic origins. Since 2017 in the state of Victoria, Australia, donor-conceived people have been able to access previously anonymous donor …
Psychology (18 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Political science (14 works) · Reproductive Health and Technologies (12 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Lesbian (9 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (8 works) · Law (7 works)