{"title":"Same-sex parents’ experiences of schools in England","authors":"Isabella McDonald, G. Morgan","doi":"10.1080/1550428X.2019.1568336","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1550428X.2019.1568336","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The experiences of same-sex parents in schools and other social institutions is an internationally under-researched area. This study uses interview data to examine the experiences of 17 same-sex parents in England in respect of school selection, disclosure of family set-up, parental engagement in school life, and perceptions of inclusivity. It gives an account of same-sex parents’ high engagement in their children’s educations as they seek to protect their family and children from potential negativity surrounding different family forms. A qualitative analysis using a constructionist grounded-theory approach produced a resulting model that presents that parents use protective strategies that contribute to their children’s positive experiences of school by (a) selecting inclusive schools, (b) being open about their families, (c) engaging in school life, (d) building relationships, (e) valuing diversity, and (e) building resilience in their children to deal with difference. The findings have implications for school policy development and training of school staff.","PeriodicalId":46967,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF GLBT FAMILY STUDIES","volume":"15 1","pages":"486 - 500"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2019-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/1550428X.2019.1568336","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47662726","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":"A Marital First Responders Workshop for Confidants to Queer Relationships: A Randomized Controlled Trial","authors":"Kyle Zrenchik, W. Doherty","doi":"10.1080/1550428X.2018.1538837","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1550428X.2018.1538837","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study is the first to examine confiding about problems in marital and long-term committed relationships among lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals. Areas explored included the prevalence of confiding relationships, the kinds of problems brought to confidant, and degree of stress confidants experience in this role. Prevalence data were presented both for a national sample of 301 LGBT individuals and in comparison with a nationally representative sample of 1,000 American adults. Findings showed a high prevalence of being a confidant among LGBT respondents, greater than in the general population, and a lower prevalence of being a confider. Of particular interest was the finding of a high degree of support that LGBT individuals provide to heterosexual relationships through the role of confidant. Relationship problems discussed with LGBT confidants were similar to those in the general population, as was the level of stress reported by confidants.","PeriodicalId":46967,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF GLBT FAMILY STUDIES","volume":"15 1","pages":"501 - 515"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/1550428X.2018.1538837","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47001772","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}
L. Weinhardt, Hui Xie, L. Wesp, J. Murray, Immaculate Apchemengich, David Kioko, Caleb B. Weinhardt, Loree Cook-Daniels
{"title":"The Role of Family, Friend, and Significant Other Support in Well-Being Among Transgender and Non-Binary Youth","authors":"L. Weinhardt, Hui Xie, L. Wesp, J. Murray, Immaculate Apchemengich, David Kioko, Caleb B. Weinhardt, Loree Cook-Daniels","doi":"10.1080/1550428X.2018.1522606","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1550428X.2018.1522606","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Transgender youth have been found to experience mental health disparities, experiencing greater rates of depression and anxiety than their cisgender counterparts. This mixed-methods study examined social support and how it is related to well-being and resilience among transgender youth. A sample of 154 transgender and gender nonbinary youth (13 to 21 years) completed a survey at a Pride event in a Midwest US city. The survey assessed living as one’s affirmed gender, social support, finding meaning in life, quality of life, mental health, and resilience. A focus group (n = 8) discussed their experiences of support. Ninety-two percent reported being assigned female at birth; 27% identified as transmasculine, 38% genderqueer, and 24% more than one gender. Family support was positively associated with the likelihood of living as one’s affirmed gender. Support from friends and significant others were not significant indicators of living as one’s affirmed gender. Participants with greater family support were less likely to report that they had a mental health problem in the past year. Friend support was positively associated with connectedness and finding meaning in life. Qualitative analyses identified how transgender youth define and experience support in their lives. Future studies should examine the use of family counseling and building communication skills for transgender youth health and resilience interventions.","PeriodicalId":46967,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF GLBT FAMILY STUDIES","volume":"15 1","pages":"311 - 325"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2019-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/1550428X.2018.1522606","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43448884","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":"Familiar perversions: the racial, sexual, and economic politics of LGBT families","authors":"E. Schuster","doi":"10.1080/1550428X.2018.1543230","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1550428X.2018.1543230","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46967,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF GLBT FAMILY STUDIES","volume":"15 1","pages":"306 - 310"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2019-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/1550428X.2018.1543230","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49385681","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":"What would you know about it? Managing ingroup vs. outgroup perceived support of same-sex vs. mixed-sex romantic relationships","authors":"Karen L. Blair, D. Holmberg","doi":"10.1080/1550428X.2018.1563760","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1550428X.2018.1563760","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Social support for relationships is an important predictor of relationship well-being, duration, and mental and physical health. But does the source of the support matter? This article examines whether there is potential moderation by the ingroup versus outgroup status of the person offering the support. Specifically, in a sample of 407 individuals in mixed-sex versus same-sex relationships, we assessed how much social support individuals perceived for their relationship from members of their social network who were queer versus straight. Those in same-sex relationships had significantly more queer members within their social networks than those in mixed-sex relationships (38.6% vs. 8.1%). We found that although those in both types of relationships perceived more support for their relationships from ingroup network members, only those in mixed-sex relationships demonstrated a stronger association between ingroup (straight) support and relationship well-being. Those in same-sex relationships showed relatively weak associations between network members’ support for the relationship and their relationship well-being, regardless of source. Results are interpreted in light of the social identity perspective, and we also discuss the potential for attributional ambiguity and discounting of others’ opinions about their relationships within the context of same-sex relationships.","PeriodicalId":46967,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF GLBT FAMILY STUDIES","volume":"15 1","pages":"429 - 441"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2019-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/1550428X.2018.1563760","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46333952","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":"Reshaping boundaries: Family politics and GLBTQ resistance in urban Vietnam","authors":"Paul Horton, Helle Rydstrøm","doi":"10.1080/1550428X.2018.1518739","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1550428X.2018.1518739","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Although Vietnamese society is currently undergoing significant changes with regards to the rights and perceptions of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer (GLBTQ) people, dominant socio-cultural norms related to gender, sexuality, and the importance of the patrilineal family regime continue to cast a shadow over the lives of GLBTQ in contemporary Vietnam. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the urban centers of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, as well as legal documents and secondary sources, this article illustrates how dominant heteronormative socio-cultural norms have contributed to the political, legal, and social exclusion of same-sex sexualities through a process of outlawing, whereby GLBTQ have been systematically excluded from the rights of law. Drawing on qualitative interviews with gay men and lesbian women between the ages of 20 and 50, the article also highlights how this relation of domination has allowed for instances of GLBTQ resistance, through subversive opposition, strategies of avoidance, and the seeking out of new opportunities in urban spaces outside the dominant sociality. The article thus provides a qualitatively nuanced account of family politics and GLBTQ resistance in urban Vietnam at a significant socio-political historical juncture.","PeriodicalId":46967,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF GLBT FAMILY STUDIES","volume":"15 1","pages":"290 - 305"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2019-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/1550428X.2018.1518739","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44033882","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":"Macrostructural Conditions of Early Versus Late Institutional Inclusion of Same-Sex Couples in the Family: An International Comparison","authors":"Olga Ganjour, E. Widmer","doi":"10.1080/1550428X.2018.1550457","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1550428X.2018.1550457","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Same-sex registered partnership, marriage, and adoption open up the family as an institution to same-sex couples and, therefore, constitute a pathway to a broader definition of what is family. In the last 2 decades, a majority of Western countries have experienced an unprecedented institutional trend toward the provision of new rights to same-sex couples in the family. This swift process of institutional change has been, for the most part, accounted for in the literature by attitudinal changes expressing greater openness toward minorities, and a greater sensitivity to human rights (Engeli et al., 2012). By contrast, we propose an explanation featuring structural features of societies in the early 21st century. We hypothesize that a series of macrostructural conditions account for the precocity versus lateness of legislation favorable to the inclusion of same-sex couples into the family. Also, we expect that normative sex regimes opened to sexual activity between same-sex persons to have been favorable to such inclusion.","PeriodicalId":46967,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF GLBT FAMILY STUDIES","volume":"15 1","pages":"415 - 428"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2019-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/1550428X.2018.1550457","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43276109","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":"Motivations to pursue surrogacy for gay fathers in Canada: a qualitative investigation","authors":"S. Fantus, Peter A. Newman","doi":"10.1080/1550428X.2018.1546156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1550428X.2018.1546156","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In Canada, the evolution of gay rights and surrogacy legislation present a unique sociopolitical context in which gay men consider parenthood. This study explored the motivations of gay men and gestational surrogates to pursue surrogacy in Canada. Interviews were conducted with (a) gestational surrogates who had been implanted with one or more embryos from a donated egg and gay fathers’ sperm and (b) gay men who completed gestational surrogacy to have a biological child. Data were analyzed through interpretive phenomenological analysis (IPA) strategies. Findings are framed within ecological systems theory (EST) to demonstrate how both proximal and distal contexts have either facilitated or hindered the decision to pursue surrogacy for gay men. A new theoretical interpretation of surrogacy shows that reproductive decision-making is situated across a complex continuum, from acts of resistance that challenge heteronormative parenthood and kinship practices to reenactments of traditional family systems and hegemonic gender norms.","PeriodicalId":46967,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF GLBT FAMILY STUDIES","volume":"15 1","pages":"342 - 356"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2019-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/1550428X.2018.1546156","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47623334","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":"Between the Social and the Personal: Israeli Male Gay Parents, Surrogacy and Socio-Political Concepts of Parenthood and Gender","authors":"Maya Tsfati, A. Ben–Ari","doi":"10.1080/1550428X.2017.1413475","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1550428X.2017.1413475","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This work focuses on the effects of dominant concepts of parenthood and gender on gay men who became parents through surrogacy. Based on the analysis of 39 in-depth, semistructured interviews with gay fathers, we show that gay fathers' parenting experiences are shaped by the heteronormative discourse on parenthood, yet they resist its gendered attributes. Gay parenthood is revealed as confronting the social concepts on parenthood, in particular on motherhood, and their socio-political meanings. The tension between the social concepts and the participants' perceptionsy leads them to confront their social environment and to construct alternative discourse to the social discourse of parenthood and gender, suggesting that gay parenthood subverts under existing concepts of parenthood, gender and their meanings within the state.","PeriodicalId":46967,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF GLBT FAMILY STUDIES","volume":"15 1","pages":"42 - 57"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/1550428X.2017.1413475","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42516465","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}
Angie R Wootton, Laurie A Drabble, Ellen D B Riggle, Cindy B Veldhuis, Caitlin Bitcon, Karen F Trocki, Tonda L Hughes
{"title":"Impacts of Marriage Legalization on the Experiences of Sexual Minority Women in Work and Community Contexts.","authors":"Angie R Wootton, Laurie A Drabble, Ellen D B Riggle, Cindy B Veldhuis, Caitlin Bitcon, Karen F Trocki, Tonda L Hughes","doi":"10.1080/1550428X.2018.1474829","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1550428X.2018.1474829","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The extension of marriage rights to same-sex couples in the United States provides an opportunity to examine how legalization of same-sex marriage has impacted the experiences of sexual minority women (SMW) in interactions within their extended social networks and local communities. Interviews were conducted with 20 SMW ranging in age from 23 to 75, with varying relationship statuses, and in different regions of the U.S. Inductive thematic analysis of responses revealed both positive and negative/neutral impacts in three broad thematic areas: workplace dynamics and interpersonal interactions in the workplace, social interactions in extended social networks and local communities, and impacts on community climate and queer communities. Findings of the study underscore the importance of evaluating the impact of same-sex marriage legalization in the context of local social and political climates.</p>","PeriodicalId":46967,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF GLBT FAMILY STUDIES","volume":"15 3","pages":"211-234"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/1550428X.2018.1474829","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37231431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}