A E Goldberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 51761 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A E Goldberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | A E |
| FAMILY NAME | Goldberg |
| SIGNATURE | GOLDBERG A E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Clark University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7654-4539 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 120 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 717 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 120 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
Preparing for a Second Trump Presidency: Concerns, Protective Actions, and Reasons for Hope Among Transgender Adults
Experiences with school‐based sexuality education among adopted adolescents with sexual minority parents
The experiences of transgender providers of gender-affirming care: Scrutiny, stress, and solidarity in sociopolitically turbulent times
Post‐Divorce LGBTQ ‐Parent Families: Navigating Loyalty Conflicts and Stepfamily Closeting
Objective The purpose of this study was to investigate underexplored dynamics of post‐divorce LGBTQ‐parent families. Background In LGBTQ‐parent families in which children were conceived in the context of a prior different‐gender partnership, children experience the coinciding events of parental separation and a parent's coming out as LGBTQ. In recent decades, research on LGBTQ‐parent families formed following different‐gender divorce has stalled,…
“Saying ‘I'm not okay’ is extremely risky”: Postpartum mental health, delayed help‐seeking, and fears of the child welfare system among queer parents
Parent mental health challenges in the postpartum and early parenthood have profound implications for parent, child, and family well‐being. Little research has focused on postpartum mental health challenges and barriers to help‐seeking among queer birthing people, including members of this community who may be particularly vulnerable to mental health difficulties, such as queer cis women partnered with men, trans/nonbinary parents, and queer pare…
“I Always Viewed Myself as a Parent”: An Intersectional Family Systems Approach to Parenting Among Latinx Sexually Diverse People
Much of the research focusing on LGBTQ parenting has focused on White parents. This is concerning given that LGBTQ families are more racially and ethnically diverse than heterosexual households, with Latinx queer parents comprising most LGBTQ parents raising children. In turn, there is a lack of research about the cultural experiences that inform parenting among Latinx LGBTQ parents. This study uses a family systems intersectional lens to explore…
“There may be a genetic tendency …”: How adoptive parents understand and communicate about substance use and risk behaviors with their adolescent children
Study protocol for the Rainbow Austrian Longitudinal Family (Ralf) study: A longitudinal, multi-method, multi-rater investigation of risk and resilience factors in Austrian LGBTQ+ parent families
The RALF study is the first prospective study to comprehensively investigate minority-specific risk and resilience factors in Austrian LGBTQ+ parent families. Findings have the potential to fill key research gaps, inform policy, and guide clinical practices that support LGBTQ+ parent families
Reliance, Support, and Caregiving Among Married LGBTQ+ Americans: Spousal and Family Relationships
When LGBTQ+ people get married, they enter into a union that promises mutual reliance and caregiving, such as in the event of financial need or health care crisis. This mixed-methods study explores how 484 married LGBTQ+ individuals in the United States (192 cisgender men, 186 cisgender women, 106 trans/nonbinary) (a) negotiate disability (38% of couples) and illness in the context of unpaid and paid labor divisions, (b) provide care for each oth…
Perceived Impact of Marriage and Concerns About the Future of Marriage Equality: A Mixed-Methods Study of LGBTQ+ Married Individuals in the United States
The Impact of Anti-DEI Legislation on LGBQ + and Heterosexual Faculty in Higher Education
Minority stress and structural stigma predict well‐being in European LGBTQ + parents
Objective This study tested whether exposure to minority stress and structural stigma across multiple levels of the family system were associated with two indicators of well‐being (life satisfaction, depressive symptoms) in LGBTQ+ parents across 19 European countries. Background Minority stress (i.e., identity‐based stress resulting from systemic oppression) and structural stigma (i.e., hostile legal environments, prejudicial social attitudes) ar…
LGBTQ parent concerns and parent–child communication about the Parental Rights in Education Bill (“Don't Say Gay”) in Florida
Family‐building desires among adopted adolescents with lesbian, gay, and heterosexual parents
Cherished families, unspoken truths: Navigating hidden and challenging family experiences while growing up with LGBTQ parents
Objective This study aims to advance understanding of hidden, complex, and resilient family experiences as perceived by adult children from LGBTQ‐parent families. Background Difficult and taboo family topics (e.g., mental illness, substance abuse, violence, infidelity, poverty) are rarely examined, particularly among LGBTQ‐parent families, in part reflecting researcher and family concerns about stigmatization or misrepresentation. Unique, complex…
Consensually nonmonogamous parent relationships during Covid-19
During the COVID-19 pandemic, parents in consensually nonmonogamous (CNM) relationships navigated public health directives to social distance and avoid contact between households. Many parents practicing CNM share romantic, sexual, and coparenting relationships across households, and the pandemic introduced challenges and opportunities for innovation in maintaining connection. This qualitative study sought to explore the experiences, challenges, …
Transgender and gender-diverse students’ experiences of gender minority stress, financial burden, and resilience in graduate school
LGBTQ parents’ accounts of their children’s experiences with heterosexism in schools
Children in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (trans), and queer (LGBTQ) parent families are vulnerable to exclusion and marginalization in the school setting, including both institutionalized and interpersonal stigma. Prior studies of LGBTQ parents have documented reports of heterosexism and homophobia in schools, but these studies have generally used small samples and focused on cisgender parent families. This mixed-methods study examines 419…
Don’t Say Gay”: Implications for Outness and Desire to Move Among LGBTQ + Parents in Florida
Social Competence, School Engagement, and School Performance Among US Children Adopted Through Private Domestic, International, and Foster Care Adoption
We examined social competence, learning-related disorders, and school engagement in relation to grade point average (GPA) among three groups of children adopted by heterosexual and same-sex couples: 84 adopted privately, 29 internationally, and 20 from foster care. Structural equation modeling showed that increased school engagement predicts higher GPA, increased social competence predicts higher GPA via increased school engagement, and learning-…
To Tell or Not to Tell: Disclosure Experiences and Perceived Microaggressions Among Adopted Adolescents With Lesbian, Gay, and Heterosexual Parents
There is limited research on stigma experiences and disclosure practices among adolescents who: (a) are adopted, (b) have LGBTQ+ parents, and (c) are sexual or gender minorities themselves. At a time when LGBTQ+ identities are both increasingly visible and also publicly debated, we conducted interviews with 50 adolescents ( M age = 14.86 years) in 12 two-father, 20 two-mother, and 18 father/mother families. Following protocols approved by Clark U…
Perceived Impact of the Overturning of Roe v. Wade on Queer Parents’ Reproductive and Sexual Lives
I want to support her but also want to protect her: The gendered parenting practices of LGBTQ+ parents
Qualitative family research: Innovative, flexible, theoretical, reflexive
Qualitative research is increasingly part of the methodological repertoire of scholars who study families. In this article, we examine contemporary trends, tensions, and possibilities for the interdisciplinary enterprise of qualitative research on and about families. We situate our collaborative approach as critical family scholars who pursue social justice work. We then examine four trends that have recently emerged or evolved in qualitative fam…
“If only we knew…”: An exploratory study of parents of adopted adolescents seeking residential treatment
Doing” and “Undoing” Gender: The Meaning and Division of Housework in Same‐Sex Couples
Research on same‐sex couples and housework can add nuance to our understanding of gender and housework. This analytic review highlights what can be gained from research on same‐sex couples and housework. Specifically, this review reveals how same‐sex couples both “do” and “undo” gender through housework. It illustrates how partners in same‐sex couples are influenced by heteronormative meaning systems surrounding housework, yet it also points to w…
Sampling Richness and Qualitative Integrity: Challenges for Research With Families
Sampling is one of the most difficult and contentious aspects of qualitative research design. There are few guidelines for sampling decisions or for understanding saturation in qualitative family research. The authors frame the problematic of data quality in the selection of units of analysis and observation and consider how to enhance sample richness. They outline considerations for data quantity and sample size as well as case- and variable-bas…
The division of labor and perceptions of parental roles: Lesbian couples across the transition to parenthood
No research has examined the division of labor across the transition to parenthood for same-sex couples. The current study examined the division of labor in 29 lesbian couples (58 women) during the transition to parenthood. Women were interviewed during their last trimester and 3-4 months post-natally. Two theoretical approaches - gender theory and economic theory - were used to generate competing hypotheses about the findings. Results revealed t…
Communicating Qualitative Research: Some Practical Guideposts for Scholars
The purpose of this article is to provide guidance to scholars regarding key aspects of writing qualitative manuscripts. The aim is to offer practical suggestions as opposed to examining epistemological or theoretical issues and debates related to qualitative family research. The authors begin by providing guideposts in writing the major sections of a qualitative article (Introduction, Method, Results, and Discussion). In doing so, they address i…
The Division of Labor in Lesbian, Gay, and Heterosexual New Adoptive Parents
Little research has investigated the division of child care and housework in adoptive or lesbian/gay parent families, yet these contexts "control for" family characteristics such as biological relatedness and parental gender differences known to be linked to family work. This study examined predictors (measured preadoption) of the division of child care and housework (measured postadoption) in lesbian (n = 55), gay (n = 40), and heterosexual (n =…
Shift Work, Role Overload, and the Transition to Parenthood
This article examines how the work hours, work schedules, and role overload of working-class couples are related to depressive symptoms and relationship conflict across the transition to parenthood. Data are from 132 dual-earner couples interviewed 5 times across the transition. Multilevel modeling analyses revealed that working evening or night shifts, as opposed to day shifts, was related to higher levels of depressive symptoms. For mothers onl…
The transition from infertility to adoption: Perceptions of lesbian and heterosexual couples
This study explores how lesbian and heterosexual pre-adoptive couples experience and construct the transition from infertility to adoption as a means to becoming parents. Thirty lesbian couples and 30 heterosexual couples were interviewed about the challenges and benefits they perceived in attempting conception and then later choosing adoption. Although similarities in perspectives emerged between heterosexual and lesbian participants (e.g., rega…
Choices, Challenges, and Tensions: Perspectives of Lesbian Prospective Adoptive Parents
No research has examined the challenges faced by lesbian women seeking to adopt from the perspective of lesbian couples themselves. The current qualitative study utilized data from 70 women (from 35 same-sex couples) who were in the process of adopting to explore how lesbian women experience and navigate the challenges they encounter during this critical life transition. Ecological, minority stress, and feminist perspectives informed our analysis…
Health Care Experiences of Transgender Binary and Nonbinary University Students
An increasing number of young adults identify with nonbinary gender identities. Yet health providers and therapists often lack understanding of such identities. In this mixed-methods study of 506 transgender undergraduate and graduate students, most of whom (75%) had nonbinary gender identities, we aimed to understand participants’ mental health and health care experiences, and factors related to misgendering and less affirming treatment by provi…
Lesbian, Gay, and Heterosexual Adoptive Parents’ Socialization Approaches to Children’s Minority Statuses
This study examined the narratives of 82 adoptive parents (41 couples: 15 lesbian, 15 gay male, 11 heterosexual) of young children ( M age = 5.81 years) with a focus on understanding parents’ socialization practices and strategies surrounding race (among parents of children of color), and family structure (among lesbian or gay [LG] parents). Most parents described an engaged approach to socialization surrounding their children’s racial minority a…
Lesbian, gay, and heterosexual adoptive parents' experiences in preschool environments
Lesbian Couples' Relationship Quality Across the Transition to Parenthood
The transition to parenthood is a time of stress for many couples. Most research on the transition to parenthood has been conducted with middle-class, heterosexual couples. The current study uses multilevel modeling to examine predictors of change in relationship quality (love and conflict) during the transition to parenthood in 29 lesbian couples. Predictors included personality variables, work context variables, social context variables, and co…
Lesbian mothers’ constructions of the division of paid and unpaid labor
Do lesbian couples resist the (re)gendering of divisions of paid and unpaid labor within the context of biological and nonbiological parenting? In this study we explore how primarily Caucasian, North American lesbian mothers of three-and-a-half-year-old children construct divisions of paid and unpaid labor. We analyze 30 lesbian couples’ narrative constructions of their labor arrangements, examining the ways in which they both transgress and acce…
Navigating identity development and community belonging when “there are only two boxes to check”: An exploratory study of nonbinary trans college students
Within the small research literature on transgender college students, little work has focused on nonbinary trans students. Findings from focus groups with seven nonbinary trans students revealed that participants explored and found support for their nonbinary trans identities online and offline, valuing in particular the support of other nonbinary people and the opportunities afforded in a college setting. Participants often felt compelled to be …
When You’re Sitting on the Fence, Hope's the Hardest Part”: Challenges and Experiences of Heterosexual and Same-Sex Couples Adopting Through the Child Welfare System
Foster-to-adopt families can be viewed as systems that are influenced by many other systems (e.g., the legal system, the social service agency, and the birth family). The current qualitative study of 84 foster-to-adopt parents (members of 42 lesbian, gay, and heterosexual couples) examined the types of challenges that parents faced as they navigated multiple systems during the initial post-placement period. Some participants described the legal i…
Sexual Activity During Menstruation: A Qualitative Study
This study utilized a grounded theory method to analyze qualitative narratives about sexuality and menstruation from 108 young women (ages 18-23; M = 19.8, SD = 1.07) and 12 young men (ages 18-24; M = 20.4, SD = 1.46). Five patterns were found: Sixteen women identified themselves as virgins and had not faced the issue of negotiating sex during menstruation. Among the 92 women who said they were sexually active, 37 women said they would never have…
Transgender graduate students’ experiences in higher education: A mixed-methods exploratory study
Little research has explored the experiences of transgender or gender-nonconforming (TGNC) students in higher education. Further, only 1 study has included the perspectives of TGNC graduate students (McKinney, 2005), and the experiences of students who identify with nonbinary gender identities (e.g., genderqueer, agender) are scarce in the literature (Nicolazzo, 2016a, 2016b). This study aims to address these gaps. Ninety-one graduate students co…
Making the Decision: Factors Influencing Gay Men's Choice of an Adoption Path
No research has examined the factors influencing gay male couples’ decision-making processes in choosing a particular type of adoption. The current qualitative study of 32 prospective adoptive male same-sex couples illuminates that, similar to many heterosexual couples seeking to adopt, gay men identify a variety of factors (e.g., race, age, health of their adoptive child) as impacting what type of adoption is most appealing to them. However, thi…
Heterosexual, Lesbian, and Gay Preadoptive Parents’ Preferences About Child Gender
Imagining Men: Lesbian Mothers' Perceptions of Male Involvement During the Transition to Parenthood
Much popular and professional literature has focused on the effects of father absence, particularly in lesbian parent households; yet, little attention has been paid to lesbian parents' preferences and intentions surrounding male involvement. This qualitative study of 60 lesbian women who were transitioning to parenthood explores this issue. Most women desired some level of male involvement, even before their children were born. Far from describi…
From Face-to-Face to Facebook: The Role of Technology and Social Media in Adoptive Family Relationships with Birth Family Members
This qualitative study of 77 individuals in 40 couples (same-sex and heterosexual), who had adopted publically, privately, or internationally, examined parents' engagement with their child's birth family via technology (e.g., texting, e-mail, social media) through the lens of the Couple and Family Technology frame-work (Hertlein & Blumer, 2014 Hertlein, K. M., & Blumer, M. L. C. (2014). The couple and family technology framework. New York, NY: Ro…
Contact Between Birth and Adoptive Families During the First Year Post-Placement: Perspectives of Lesbian, Gay, and Heterosexual Parents
Despite growing visibility of lesbian- and gay-parent adoption, only one qualitative study has examined birth family contact among adoptive families with lesbian and gay parents (Goldberg, Kinkler, Richardson, & Downing, 2011). We studied adoptive parents' (34 lesbian, 32 gay, and 37 heterosexual; N = 103 families) perspectives of birth family contact across the first year post-placement. Using questionnaire and interview data, we found few diffe…
We told them that we are both really involved parents’: Sexual minority and heterosexual adoptive parents’ engagement in school communities
The current qualitative study examines how parents’ sexual orientation, gender, and other social locations intersect to shape their experiences with and connection to their children’s school communities. We applied thematic analysis to interview data from 90 adoptive parents in 45 couples (15 lesbian, 15 gay, 15 heterosexual) in the USA, whose children were mostly in preschool and kindergarten. Parents reported being involved in a variety of ways…
Marriage (In)equality: The Perspectives of Adolescents and Emerging Adults With Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Parents
The debate over whether same-sex couples should be allowed to enter into civil marriages continues in the United States. Forty-nine adolescents and emerging adults (ages 14-29) with lesbian, gay, and bisexual parents were interviewed for the current exploratory study, which examined how individuals perceived themselves and their families as being affected by marriage (in)equality, as well as the factors that shaped their perspectives. More than t…
Lesbian, Gay, and Heterosexual Couples in Open Adoption Arrangements: A Qualitative Study
Little research has attended to the role of gender and sexual orientation in shaping open adoption dynamics. This qualitative, longitudinal study of 45 adoptive couples (15 lesbian, 15 gay, and 15 heterosexual couples) examined adopters' motivations for open adoption, changes in attitudes about openness, and early relationship dynamics. Key findings revealed that heterosexuals often described feeling drawn to open adoption because they perceived …
Division of Labor and Working-Class Women's Well-Being Across the Transition to Parenthood.
This study examines the degree to which the division of household and child-care tasks predicts working-class women's well-being across the transition to parenthood. Women completed questionnaires about the division of labor and their well-being before the birth of their first child and upon returning to work. Results showed that violated expectations regarding the division of child care were associated with increased distress postnatally, and th…
The Transition to Parenthood for Lesbian Couples
While there is a slowly growing literature on lesbians with older children, the literature on the transition to parenthood for lesbian couples is scant. The current study examines aspects of the transition to parenthood experience for 29 lesbian couples. Specifically, this study explores aspects of couples' decision-making regarding alternative insemination (e.g., who would carry and bear the child, donor type), perceptions of social support acro…
Lesbian Couples' Relationship Quality Across the Transition to Parenthood
The transition to parenthood is a time of stress for many couples. Most research on the transition to parenthood has been conducted with middle-class, heterosexual couples. The current study uses multilevel modeling to examine predictors of change in relationship quality (love and conflict) during the transition to parenthood in 29 lesbian couples. Predictors included personality variables, work context variables, social context variables, and co…
Choices, Challenges, and Tensions: Perspectives of Lesbian Prospective Adoptive Parents
No research has examined the challenges faced by lesbian women seeking to adopt from the perspective of lesbian couples themselves. The current qualitative study utilized data from 70 women (from 35 same-sex couples) who were in the process of adopting to explore how lesbian women experience and navigate the challenges they encounter during this critical life transition. Ecological, minority stress, and feminist perspectives informed our analysis…
(How) does it make a difference? Perspectives of adults with lesbian, gay, and bisexual parents
Few studies have addressed the experiences or perceptions of adult children of lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) parents. In this study, 46 adult children of LGB parents were interviewed, and their perceptions of how growing up with LGB parents influenced them as adults were examined. Qualitative analysis revealed that adults felt that they were more tolerant and open minded and had more flexible ideas about gender and sexuality as a function of g…
The division of labor and perceptions of parental roles: Lesbian couples across the transition to parenthood
No research has examined the division of labor across the transition to parenthood for same-sex couples. The current study examined the division of labor in 29 lesbian couples (58 women) during the transition to parenthood. Women were interviewed during their last trimester and 3-4 months post-natally. Two theoretical approaches - gender theory and economic theory - were used to generate competing hypotheses about the findings. Results revealed t…
Talking About Family: Disclosure Practices of Adults Raised by Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Parents
Although a growing literature exists on children of lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) parents, little is known about these children's experiences as adults. Of interest is how these individuals negotiate disclosure of their parents' sexual orientation. This qualitative study of 42 adults raised by LGB parents explores this issue. Participants grew up in a diverse range of contexts: Some were always aware of their family's nontraditional status, so…
Imagining Men: Lesbian Mothers' Perceptions of Male Involvement During the Transition to Parenthood
Much popular and professional literature has focused on the effects of father absence, particularly in lesbian parent households; yet, little attention has been paid to lesbian parents' preferences and intentions surrounding male involvement. This qualitative study of 60 lesbian women who were transitioning to parenthood explores this issue. Most women desired some level of male involvement, even before their children were born. Far from describi…
Shift Work, Role Overload, and the Transition to Parenthood
This article examines how the work hours, work schedules, and role overload of working-class couples are related to depressive symptoms and relationship conflict across the transition to parenthood. Data are from 132 dual-earner couples interviewed 5 times across the transition. Multilevel modeling analyses revealed that working evening or night shifts, as opposed to day shifts, was related to higher levels of depressive symptoms. For mothers onl…
The Social Context of Lesbian Mothers' Anxiety During Early Parenthood
SYNOPSIS Objective . To prospectively explore change in mental health (and, specifically, anxiety) across the transition to parenthood for lesbian mothers. Design . Multilevel modeling was used to analyze data from 34 lesbian couples (68 women) at three time points (prenatal, 3 months postbirth, and 3.5 years after birth) to explore the influence of prenatal characteristics on the level of and change in women's anxiety during early parenthood. Re…
Perceptions of Children's Parental Preferences in Lesbian Two-Mother Households
This study explores how lesbian mothers perceive their 31⁄2-year-old children's parental preferences in families in which one mother is genetically linked to the child. Thirty lesbian couples (60 women) were interviewed about their children's parental preferences, their explanations of why preferences for one parent existed (or not), and their affective and behavioral reactions to such preferences. Many women acknowledged that their children, as …
Family Outings: Disclosure Practices Among Adopted Youth With Gay and Lesbian Parents
This study uses qualitative data from 14 interviews with multicultural youth aged 13 to 20 to explore how they negotiate disclosures of their adoptive status and gay and lesbian parent-headed family structure within their schools and friendship networks. Findings reveal a continuum of disclosure practices ranging from not telling anyone that they have gay or lesbian parents to more open disclosure, with several participants being forced to "come …
Making the Decision: Factors Influencing Gay Men's Choice of an Adoption Path
No research has examined the factors influencing gay male couples’ decision-making processes in choosing a particular type of adoption. The current qualitative study of 32 prospective adoptive male same-sex couples illuminates that, similar to many heterosexual couples seeking to adopt, gay men identify a variety of factors (e.g., race, age, health of their adoptive child) as impacting what type of adoption is most appealing to them. However, thi…
Heterosexual, Lesbian, and Gay Preadoptive Parents’ Preferences About Child Gender
Second Generation” Voices: Queer Youth with Lesbian/Bisexual Mothers
Sexual Activity During Menstruation: A Qualitative Study
This study utilized a grounded theory method to analyze qualitative narratives about sexuality and menstruation from 108 young women (ages 18-23; M = 19.8, SD = 1.07) and 12 young men (ages 18-24; M = 20.4, SD = 1.46). Five patterns were found: Sixteen women identified themselves as virgins and had not faced the issue of negotiating sex during menstruation. Among the 92 women who said they were sexually active, 37 women said they would never have…
Lesbian and heterosexual preadoptive couples' openness to transracial adoption
This study uses data from 147 White preadoptive couples (54 lesbian, 93 heterosexual) to examine adopters' subjective explanations for why they are open or not open to adopting transracially. Participant perceptions of racial-ethnic diversity in their communities and families, perceptions of family support or nonsupport, and attitudes about race were among the factors they cited as influencing their openness. These findings hold important implica…
The transition from infertility to adoption: Perceptions of lesbian and heterosexual couples
This study explores how lesbian and heterosexual pre-adoptive couples experience and construct the transition from infertility to adoption as a means to becoming parents. Thirty lesbian couples and 30 heterosexual couples were interviewed about the challenges and benefits they perceived in attempting conception and then later choosing adoption. Although similarities in perspectives emerged between heterosexual and lesbian participants (e.g., rega…
Lesbian and gay parents and their children: Research on the family life cycle.
"The past several decades have seen increasing controversies over lesbian and gay parenthood. More same-sex couples than ever are becoming parents, building their families while others debate their legal rights pertaining to marriage and parenthood. Against this sociopolitical backdrop, how do same-sex couples transition to parenthood, and what are their experiences as parents? Furthermore, what are the experiences of their children? Lesbian and …
New Developments in the Field: Measuring Community Climate
Community climate is the degree of support for GLBT people within a specific locale. In this paper we describe the elements of community climate, theorize how it is produced, and argue that this approach provides an important elaboration of Meyer's (2003) O'donnell, L., Agronick, G., San Doval, A., Duran, R., Myint-U, A. and Stueve, A. 2002. Ethnic and gay community attachments and sexual risk behaviors among urban Latino young men who have sex w…
Adaptation to Parenthood During the Post-Adoption Period: A Review of the Literature
Substantial research has been conducted on new parents’ adjustment during the transition to biological parenthood. However, very little is known about adjustment experiences during the transition to adoptive parenthood. Such information could assist in creating support systems for adoptive parents similar to those that currently exist for biological parents. A systematic literature review was conducted to examine individual and relational adjustm…
Lesbian mothers’ constructions of the division of paid and unpaid labor
Do lesbian couples resist the (re)gendering of divisions of paid and unpaid labor within the context of biological and nonbiological parenting? In this study we explore how primarily Caucasian, North American lesbian mothers of three-and-a-half-year-old children construct divisions of paid and unpaid labor. We analyze 30 lesbian couples’ narrative constructions of their labor arrangements, examining the ways in which they both transgress and acce…
Studying Complex Families in Context
“How Does the Gender of Parents Matter?” is an intriguing follow-up to Stacey and Biblarz's (2001) meta-analysis of the research on lesbian and gay parenting, in which they asked the question “(How) does the sexual orientation of parents matter?” The authors concisely and thoughtfully summarize much of the research on lesbian and gay parenting and single parenting and raise some interesting questions about how, specifically, the gender of parents…
Stigma, social context, and mental health: Lesbian and gay couples across the transition to adoptive parenthood.
This is the first study to examine change in depression and anxiety across the first year of adoptive parenthood in same-sex couples (90 couples: 52 lesbian, 38 gay male). Given that sexual minorities uniquely contend with sexual orientation-related stigma, this study examined how both internalized and enacted forms of stigma affect the mental health of lesbians and gay men during the transition to parenthood. In addition, the role of contextual …
Perception and Internalization of Adoption Stigma among Gay, Lesbian, and Heterosexual Adoptive Parents
Using data from 30 gay male, 45 lesbian, and 51 heterosexual couples who had recently adopted a child, the current study sought to (1) create and validate a measure that differentiated between perception of societal stigma about adoption and internalization of adoption stigma; (2) examine whether gender, sexual orientation, preferential adoption status, and transracial adoption status were associated with perception and internalization of adoptio…
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