{"title":"Parental reactions to British South Asian young men who identify as gay","authors":"R. Jaspal","doi":"10.1080/1550428X.2019.1684412","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1550428X.2019.1684412","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract British South Asian gay men may face significant psychological distress as a result of parental rejection due to their sexual orientation. This study is the first in the UK to examine parental reactions to British South Asian young men who come out as gay. Twelve British South Asian parents participated in “conversational enquiries,” a series of unstructured interviews, which explored their experiences of having a son come out as gay. The data were analyzed using qualitative thematic analysis and identity process theory. Three themes are described. First, threats to self-esteem and continuity associated with having a gay son are described. Second, it is shown that parents favored and, in some cases, continue to favor denial of the fact, or implications, of their son’s coming out. Third, parents may deem isolation from significant others to be necessary in order to avoid social stigma due to their sons’ sexual orientation. Recommendations are offered for supporting the parents of British South Asian young men who identify as gay.","PeriodicalId":46967,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF GLBT FAMILY STUDIES","volume":"16 1","pages":"402 - 417"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2020-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/1550428X.2019.1684412","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42825011","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"School Cultures and Trans and Gender-diverse Children: Parents' Perspectives","authors":"Zowie Davy, Sebastian Cordoba","doi":"10.1080/1550428X.2019.1647810","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1550428X.2019.1647810","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In the United Kingdom, trans and gender-diverse children are increasingly visible within the school system. We examined data obtained from 23 parents who are supportive of their trans and gender-diverse children. We draw on the insights of Freire (2000), who suggested that critical education in its widest sense is a basic element of progressive social change. Parents face interpersonal and structural limit-situations (Freire, 2000) while supporting their children in school cultures. But it is often parents teaching educators about trans and gender-diverse children producing changes to how schools are altering their practices in relation to (trans) gender. Nonetheless, many schools are advocating for trans and gender-diverse children in reactive ways, rather than having clear procedures and strategies in place. Parents welcome the dialogical flexibility this allows, but find the situation demanding and time consuming. However, parents have many concerns about bullying and peer pressure, which emphasizes their ability to only partly ensure the protection of their children at school. The importance of parents’ and children’s knowledge derived from their life experiences, and which they bring with them to school cultures is challenging gendered-limit-situations and the perception about who has the right to determine gender in school.","PeriodicalId":46967,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF GLBT FAMILY STUDIES","volume":"16 1","pages":"349 - 367"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2020-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/1550428X.2019.1647810","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59993759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Negotiating Kinship: On Disassembling Same-Sex Families with Children","authors":"D. Carmeli","doi":"10.1080/1550428X.2019.1684411","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1550428X.2019.1684411","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Same-sex families are distinct: at least one parent is not genetically related to each child and external state regulation of coupling and separation processes is scarce. The disassembling of such families therefore offers a singular setting to explore nontraditional perceptions and enactments of family and kinship. Tracing separation processes and custody agreements of same-sex couples with children, this paper suggests that at the family formation stage, couples side-lined genetic relatedness and emphasized social kinning. As the partners’ relations deteriorated, parent-child genetic links were increasingly prioritized (though not genetic links with ova donors or half genetic siblings). Post-separation arrangements varied greatly. Some couples sustained the former family’s framework and nurtured co-parent and sibling relations, while others marginalized non-genetic relatedness, at times to complete detachment. Having a genetic offspring emerged as a major determinant of post separation relations. The paper illustrates the elasticity of same-sex kinship perceptions, with social kinning particularly amenable to circumstance changes. The study is based on accounts of eight lesbians and gay men in Israel, depicted through interviews (4), therapist's accounts (3) and a media report (1). The accounts were analyzed for emergent themes of family and relatedness as they were formed, transformed and enacted in these contexts.","PeriodicalId":46967,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF GLBT FAMILY STUDIES","volume":"16 1","pages":"385 - 401"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2020-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/1550428X.2019.1684411","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46681166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“It’s Just Constantly Having to Make a Ton of Decisions That Other People Take for Granted”: Pregnancy and Parenting Desires for Queer Cisgender Women and Non-binary Individuals Assigned Female at Birth","authors":"E. Carpenter, Rachel Niesen","doi":"10.1080/1550428X.2020.1773367","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1550428X.2020.1773367","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract As more queer cisgender women and gender-expansive individuals become parents, research must consider current barriers to family formation. This study used a modified grounded theory approach to conduct 22 semi-structured interviews aimed at understanding the role of queer identity in pregnancy desires and decisions among individuals assigned female at birth (AFAB) who identify as queer. Numerous individual, relationship, and structural factors informed pregnancy desires, the choice to seek pregnancy, and experiences with pregnancy. Supporting queer individuals in a range of pregnancy and parenting options is vital to fully recognizing queer individuals as participants in a fundamental human experience—family building.","PeriodicalId":46967,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF GLBT FAMILY STUDIES","volume":"17 1","pages":"87 - 101"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2020-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/1550428X.2020.1773367","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44930738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
W. Jeffries, W. Marsiglio, Ozcan Tunalilar, D. Berkowitz
{"title":"Fatherhood Desires and Being Bothered by Future Childlessness among U.S. Gay, Bisexual, and Heterosexual Men—United States, 2002–2015","authors":"W. Jeffries, W. Marsiglio, Ozcan Tunalilar, D. Berkowitz","doi":"10.1080/1550428X.2019.1652876","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1550428X.2019.1652876","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Recent legal and social changes in marriage equality, parenting among same-sex couples, and fatherhood discourses may prompt more US gay and bisexual men to desire fatherhood. However, scholars know little about fatherhood desires among these men. Therefore, we investigated temporal changes in fatherhood desires and perceptions of being bothered by future childlessness among US gay, bisexual, and heterosexual men. The sample included childless men participating in 5 cycles of the National Survey of Family Growth. Adjusted Wald tests and Pearson’s chi-square tests examined temporal changes in future fatherhood desires and being bothered by future childlessness, and they compared the men along these outcomes. We used logistic regression for multivariable analyses. The proportion of gay, bisexual, and heterosexual men who desired fatherhood remained stable from 2002 to 2013–2015. Most gay, bisexual, and heterosexual men desired fatherhood, but gay men had the lowest likelihood of doing so. Gay and bisexual men were less likely than heterosexual men to be bothered by future childlessness. Although the prevalence of fatherhood desires among these men did not increase during 2002–2015, the relatively high prevalence of fatherhood desires warrants research and data collection to understand factors influencing these desires, especially among gay and bisexual men.","PeriodicalId":46967,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF GLBT FAMILY STUDIES","volume":"16 1","pages":"330 - 345"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2020-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/1550428X.2019.1652876","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46576815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Queer Polyfamily Performativity: Family Practices and Adaptive Strategies Among LGBTQ + Polyamorists","authors":"E. Pain","doi":"10.1080/1550428X.2019.1596858","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1550428X.2019.1596858","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This research explores LGBTQ+ (queer) polyamorous family practices. This work is critical for family studies, as queer polyamorous families challenge heteronormativity, resist assimilationism, and broaden cultural understandings of family. This article presents findings from a larger qualitative study on queer polyamory that involved in-depth interviews with 55 queer adults of diverse identities and backgrounds who had experience with polyamory. Queer polyamorists engage in and value a variety of non-normative family practices, or queer polyfamily performativities, and formulate creative adaptive strategies to monocentric cultural constraints. Yet, their family narratives focus on cultural symbols that are central to conventional understandings of family such as households, children, and support. These findings suggest that queer polyamorous families challenge heteronormativity, but not necessarily by rejecting normative understandings of family. Rather, they expand conventional notions with their unique family performativities. These findings speak to current political struggles, contemporary family practices, and changing meanings of family.","PeriodicalId":46967,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF GLBT FAMILY STUDIES","volume":"16 1","pages":"277 - 292"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2020-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/1550428X.2019.1596858","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44045103","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Katherine A. Kuvalanka, W. S. Newsome, Bethany L. Letiecq, Jenna Neff, Kendall Neubeiser, Julia Snodgrass, Gianna Valentic
{"title":"Grandmothers raising their transgender grandchildren: An exploratory study","authors":"Katherine A. Kuvalanka, W. S. Newsome, Bethany L. Letiecq, Jenna Neff, Kendall Neubeiser, Julia Snodgrass, Gianna Valentic","doi":"10.1080/1550428X.2019.1630883","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1550428X.2019.1630883","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This exploratory study builds upon previous research relating to grandparents of transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) youth by investigating the experiences of 2 affirming grandmothers raising their transgender granddaughters (age 6 years at T1). Participants reported experiences similar to those reported by affirming parents of TGD children, such as facing resistance from their communities when affirming the children’s gender identities. Similar to previous research on grandfamilies in general, describing a warm bond between grandparents and grandchildren, our participants described a special relationship with their TGD grandchildren that led to the grandmothers being the children’s 1st and strongest allies. Participants faced challenges and advantages distinct from those experienced by affirming parents of TGD children and, in some cases, by grandparents raising non-TGD grandchildren. These challenges pertained to: (a) their unexpected/unplanned primary caregiver role, (b) navigating the legal system, (c) the impact of the familial situation on the child, and (d) negotiating the parents’ involvement in the children’s lives. Two types of advantages—internal (e.g., experience, confidence, maturity) and external (e.g., community connections, credibility, respect)—were identified. Findings have implications for policy, practice, and future research, providing insight into some of the potentially unique stresses and strengths of grandfamilies with TGD grandchildren.","PeriodicalId":46967,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF GLBT FAMILY STUDIES","volume":"16 1","pages":"312 - 329"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2020-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/1550428X.2019.1630883","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42828915","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
James G. Bridges, Tyler Lefevor, R. Schow, C. Rosik
{"title":"Identity Affirmation and Mental Health among Sexual Minorities: A Raised-Mormon Sample","authors":"James G. Bridges, Tyler Lefevor, R. Schow, C. Rosik","doi":"10.1080/1550428X.2019.1629369","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1550428X.2019.1629369","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract How can someone successfully integrate a lesbian, gay, or bisexual (LGB) identity and a Mormon identity? Using a sample of 530 LGB-identified individuals raised in the Later-Day Saints (LDS) church, this study asks how factors of empowerment are associated with sexual identity affirmation and mental health outcomes. We found that sexual identity support, connection needs support, LGBT community support, and educational attainment were significantly associated with more positive mental health outcomes. LGB women who were raised Mormon appear to fair worse than men, on average. We also found that those raised Mormon who had disaffiliated with the LDS church reported significantly lower levels of internalized homonegativity than those still affiliated. Clinicians working with LGB Mormons and post-Mormons should consider the effect that affirming sources of support may have on positive mental health outcomes.","PeriodicalId":46967,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF GLBT FAMILY STUDIES","volume":"16 1","pages":"293 - 311"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2020-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/1550428X.2019.1629369","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43429369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Working with Transgender Young People and their Families: A Critical Developmental Approach","authors":"Julia K Moore","doi":"10.1080/1550428X.2020.1743549","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1550428X.2020.1743549","url":null,"abstract":"Working with Transgender Young People and their Families: A Critical Developmental Approach lives up to its title. Author Damien Riggs, a Professor in the College of Education, Psychology, and Soci...","PeriodicalId":46967,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF GLBT FAMILY STUDIES","volume":"16 1","pages":"452 - 453"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2020-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/1550428X.2020.1743549","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41545939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}