Lawrence Stacey
Biographic Data
| ID | 669655 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lawrence Stacey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lawrence |
| FAMILY NAME | Stacey |
| SIGNATURE | STACEY L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vanderbilt University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3879-5235 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
An unbreakable bond? Maternal adverse childhood experiences and mothers’ relationships with adult children
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)-the constellation of experiences of abuse, neglect, and household dysfunction in childhood-affect the subsequent formation and maintenance of social relationships. Yet to date, there is limited knowledge on the potential consequences of maternal ACEs for the mother-adult child tie, one of the most important relationships across the life course. Insights from a life course perspective and research on the delete…
The Intergenerational Reach of Maternal Adverse Childhood Experiences
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)—such as abuse, neglect, and household dysfunction before age 18—pose substantial risks to individual health and well-being throughout life, but relatively less research has examined how ACEs are associated with parenting behaviors or children’s home environments. We use linked mother–child data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979, a U.S. longitudinal cohort study, to investigate how maternal AC…
Demographic Differences in Responses to a Two-Step Gender Identity Measure
Strategies for including noncisgender responses in demographic analyses remain subjects of ongoing debate and refinement. The Household Pulse Survey is one of the first data products by the U.S. Census Bureau to incorporate a two-step gender identity measure. This is significant because the survey, although experimental, is one of the largest federal nationally representative samples (n = 668,273) that allows for the enumeration of noncisgender p…
The medical institution and transgender health
An Updated Data Portrait of Heterosexual, Gay/Lesbian, Bisexual, and Other Sexual Minorities in the United States
Sexual minorities are a rapidly growing population, with recent estimates showing a two-fold increase in the percentage of sexual minorities over the past decade. Working with relatively few measures to identify sexual minorities, social scientists have amassed an impressive amount of evidence on inequality by sexuality. Despite this remarkable work, I argue that it is important to take a step back analytically and re-assess sexual minorities fro…
A Data Portrait of Cisgender, Transgender, and Gender-Nonconforming Populations in the United States
The transgender population is a critically underresearched population in the United States, owing to rare measures on national and state-level surveys that ask about sex and gender or transgender identification. Consequently, we know relatively less about the sociodemographic, socioeconomic, family, and health lives of gender minorities. In this research note, I use population-level data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Behav…
Parent–adult child estrangement in the United States by gender, race/ethnicity, and sexuality
Objective: To provide nationally-representative estimates of parent-adult child estrangement. Background: Population-level research is needed on parent-adult child estrangement to understand the full range of family dynamics in the U.S. Method: We estimate logistic regression models using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 Child and Young Adult supplement to determine estimates of estrangement (and subsequent unestrangement)…
Physical and Mental Health Disparities at the Intersection of Sexual and Gender Minority Statuses
Sexual and gender minorities (SGM) experience detriments across many physical and mental health outcomes compared with heterosexual and cisgender people. But little is known about health outcomes for those who are both gender minorities and sexual minorities. Motivated by theories of double disadvantage and leveraging advancements in data collection and measurement, we examine physical and mental health disparities across sexual and gender minori…
Friend, foe, or forget ‘em
Objective The present study aims to understand how LGBTQ adults characterize the quality of their adult sibling ties, and how the type of sibling relationship (e.g., full, step, half, chosen) informs this characterization. Background An intra generational conflict‐solidarity‐ambivalence frame is developed to theorize and empirically examine sibling relationships. Methods Drawing on an intragenerational conflict‐solidarity‐ambivalence frame, we an…
Childbearing Biographies as a Method to Examine Diversity and Clustering of Childbearing Experiences
Toward a Holistic Demographic Profile of Sexual and Gender Minority Well-being
Sexual and gender minority (SGM) populations experience disadvantages in physical health, mental health, and socioeconomic status relative to cisgender heterosexual populations. However, extant population research has tended to use objective measures and ignore subjective measures, examined well-being outcomes in isolation, and lacked information on less well studied but possibly more disadvantaged SGM subgroups. In this study, we use Gallup's Na…
Personal Preferences, Discursive Strategies, and the Maintenance of Inequality on Gay Dating Apps
Complicating parents’ gender and sexual expectations for children
When social scientists argue that “families” reproduce and sometimes challenge gender and sexual norms, they tend to refer to biological, cisgender, and heterosexual families. We consider how one alternative family form—stepfamilies—might, like gay and lesbian families, challenge these norms. Interviews with 20 biological and stepparents reveal that whereas biological parents held relatively intense feelings about their children’s gender and sexu…
The family as gender and sexuality factory
Early theorists understood the family as a key institution in the production of gender and sexuality. In this paper, I trace the development of this line of thought and review parents' role in shaping children's gender and sexuality over the life course. I first describe the three most prominent theoretical frameworks used to locate parents in these studies: psychoanalysis, socialization, and interactional approaches. In doing so, I illuminate th…
(Bio)Logics of The Family
Family is one of the most influential institutions when it comes to the production and reproduction of gender. Yet despite the prevalence of families in which children are not biologically related to parents in the U.S. today, little research has explored the role of the biological connection in parents’ beliefs about children’s gender nonconformity. Using original data collected through an online survey experiment ( N = 712), I examine the exten…
Feeling Like a Fetish
Whom we date and are intimate with is structured by race and racism. Recent research has focused on "personal preference" discourse and sexual stereotyping to highlight how and why race and racism affect online and offline interactions. Yet relatively less work focuses on racial fetishization - race-based fixation on a bodily part or characteristic that involves both idolization and demonization of racial difference. Drawing on recent theorizing …
Feeling Like a Fetish
Whom we date and are intimate with is structured by race and racism. Recent research has focused on "personal preference" discourse and sexual stereotyping to highlight how and why race and racism affect online and offline interactions. Yet relatively less work focuses on racial fetishization - race-based fixation on a bodily part or characteristic that involves both idolization and demonization of racial difference. Drawing on recent theorizing …
Toward a Holistic Demographic Profile of Sexual and Gender Minority Well-being
Sexual and gender minority (SGM) populations experience disadvantages in physical health, mental health, and socioeconomic status relative to cisgender heterosexual populations. However, extant population research has tended to use objective measures and ignore subjective measures, examined well-being outcomes in isolation, and lacked information on less well studied but possibly more disadvantaged SGM subgroups. In this study, we use Gallup's Na…
Physical and Mental Health Disparities at the Intersection of Sexual and Gender Minority Statuses
Sexual and gender minorities (SGM) experience detriments across many physical and mental health outcomes compared with heterosexual and cisgender people. But little is known about health outcomes for those who are both gender minorities and sexual minorities. Motivated by theories of double disadvantage and leveraging advancements in data collection and measurement, we examine physical and mental health disparities across sexual and gender minori…
(Bio)Logics of The Family
Family is one of the most influential institutions when it comes to the production and reproduction of gender. Yet despite the prevalence of families in which children are not biologically related to parents in the U.S. today, little research has explored the role of the biological connection in parents’ beliefs about children’s gender nonconformity. Using original data collected through an online survey experiment ( N = 712), I examine the exten…
Childbearing Biographies as a Method to Examine Diversity and Clustering of Childbearing Experiences
A Data Portrait of Cisgender, Transgender, and Gender-Nonconforming Populations in the United States
The transgender population is a critically underresearched population in the United States, owing to rare measures on national and state-level surveys that ask about sex and gender or transgender identification. Consequently, we know relatively less about the sociodemographic, socioeconomic, family, and health lives of gender minorities. In this research note, I use population-level data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Behav…
Complicating parents’ gender and sexual expectations for children
When social scientists argue that “families” reproduce and sometimes challenge gender and sexual norms, they tend to refer to biological, cisgender, and heterosexual families. We consider how one alternative family form—stepfamilies—might, like gay and lesbian families, challenge these norms. Interviews with 20 biological and stepparents reveal that whereas biological parents held relatively intense feelings about their children’s gender and sexu…
The family as gender and sexuality factory
Early theorists understood the family as a key institution in the production of gender and sexuality. In this paper, I trace the development of this line of thought and review parents' role in shaping children's gender and sexuality over the life course. I first describe the three most prominent theoretical frameworks used to locate parents in these studies: psychoanalysis, socialization, and interactional approaches. In doing so, I illuminate th…
(Bio)Logics of The Family
Family is one of the most influential institutions when it comes to the production and reproduction of gender. Yet despite the prevalence of families in which children are not biologically related to parents in the U.S. today, little research has explored the role of the biological connection in parents’ beliefs about children’s gender nonconformity. Using original data collected through an online survey experiment ( N = 712), I examine the exten…
Feeling Like a Fetish
Whom we date and are intimate with is structured by race and racism. Recent research has focused on "personal preference" discourse and sexual stereotyping to highlight how and why race and racism affect online and offline interactions. Yet relatively less work focuses on racial fetishization - race-based fixation on a bodily part or characteristic that involves both idolization and demonization of racial difference. Drawing on recent theorizing …
Friend, foe, or forget ‘em
Objective The present study aims to understand how LGBTQ adults characterize the quality of their adult sibling ties, and how the type of sibling relationship (e.g., full, step, half, chosen) informs this characterization. Background An intra generational conflict‐solidarity‐ambivalence frame is developed to theorize and empirically examine sibling relationships. Methods Drawing on an intragenerational conflict‐solidarity‐ambivalence frame, we an…
Childbearing Biographies as a Method to Examine Diversity and Clustering of Childbearing Experiences
Toward a Holistic Demographic Profile of Sexual and Gender Minority Well-being
Sexual and gender minority (SGM) populations experience disadvantages in physical health, mental health, and socioeconomic status relative to cisgender heterosexual populations. However, extant population research has tended to use objective measures and ignore subjective measures, examined well-being outcomes in isolation, and lacked information on less well studied but possibly more disadvantaged SGM subgroups. In this study, we use Gallup's Na…
Personal Preferences, Discursive Strategies, and the Maintenance of Inequality on Gay Dating Apps
Parent–adult child estrangement in the United States by gender, race/ethnicity, and sexuality
Objective: To provide nationally-representative estimates of parent-adult child estrangement. Background: Population-level research is needed on parent-adult child estrangement to understand the full range of family dynamics in the U.S. Method: We estimate logistic regression models using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 Child and Young Adult supplement to determine estimates of estrangement (and subsequent unestrangement)…
Physical and Mental Health Disparities at the Intersection of Sexual and Gender Minority Statuses
Sexual and gender minorities (SGM) experience detriments across many physical and mental health outcomes compared with heterosexual and cisgender people. But little is known about health outcomes for those who are both gender minorities and sexual minorities. Motivated by theories of double disadvantage and leveraging advancements in data collection and measurement, we examine physical and mental health disparities across sexual and gender minori…
An Updated Data Portrait of Heterosexual, Gay/Lesbian, Bisexual, and Other Sexual Minorities in the United States
Sexual minorities are a rapidly growing population, with recent estimates showing a two-fold increase in the percentage of sexual minorities over the past decade. Working with relatively few measures to identify sexual minorities, social scientists have amassed an impressive amount of evidence on inequality by sexuality. Despite this remarkable work, I argue that it is important to take a step back analytically and re-assess sexual minorities fro…
A Data Portrait of Cisgender, Transgender, and Gender-Nonconforming Populations in the United States
The transgender population is a critically underresearched population in the United States, owing to rare measures on national and state-level surveys that ask about sex and gender or transgender identification. Consequently, we know relatively less about the sociodemographic, socioeconomic, family, and health lives of gender minorities. In this research note, I use population-level data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Behav…
An unbreakable bond? Maternal adverse childhood experiences and mothers’ relationships with adult children
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)-the constellation of experiences of abuse, neglect, and household dysfunction in childhood-affect the subsequent formation and maintenance of social relationships. Yet to date, there is limited knowledge on the potential consequences of maternal ACEs for the mother-adult child tie, one of the most important relationships across the life course. Insights from a life course perspective and research on the delete…
The Intergenerational Reach of Maternal Adverse Childhood Experiences
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)—such as abuse, neglect, and household dysfunction before age 18—pose substantial risks to individual health and well-being throughout life, but relatively less research has examined how ACEs are associated with parenting behaviors or children’s home environments. We use linked mother–child data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979, a U.S. longitudinal cohort study, to investigate how maternal AC…
Demographic Differences in Responses to a Two-Step Gender Identity Measure
Strategies for including noncisgender responses in demographic analyses remain subjects of ongoing debate and refinement. The Household Pulse Survey is one of the first data products by the U.S. Census Bureau to incorporate a two-step gender identity measure. This is significant because the survey, although experimental, is one of the largest federal nationally representative samples (n = 668,273) that allows for the enumeration of noncisgender p…
The medical institution and transgender health
Sociology (14 works) · Psychology (13 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (10 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Demography (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Demography (5 works)