Sense of Coherence refers to viewing one's environment as "comprehensible, manageable, and meaningful.

parent LGBTQ+ parenting: What it’s really like to be an LGBTQ+ parent

I came to this podcast knowing little outside my own gay adoption bubble and it has been incredible to educate myself on the whole fertility journey that Lotte and our other lesbian guests have been on. The effects of marriage, civil union, and domestic partnership laws on the health and well-being of children".Kim is a powerful voice of advocacy with many tools in their belt and many services to offer families.

‘Adoption is like couples therapy’: what we learned as hosts

Data on children of parents who identify as bisexual are still not available, and information about children of non-White lesbian or gay parents is hard to find (but see Wainright et al. We were, and are, so proud of the book so think that pride carried us through the process rather than pressure.

We spoke to Prof Susan Golombok, who has studied the effects of coming from an LGBTQ+ family since the 1970s, and she told us that, compared on aggregate with straight families, there was better communication and emotional intelligence in families with same-sex or transgender parents. Something I’ve been thinking about a lot as my own daughter grows into a very smart and sassy toddler is how and when to talk to her about how her Mummy and Mama brought her into the world. It was important that it also spoke to existing queer parents and also painted a wider picture of just the process of getting you there. A 2014 literature review of 51 surveys of Transgender people in the US found that between one quarter and one half reported being parents with more Trans women being parents than Trans men.

Queer parents need everyone’s support, not people calling us Queer parents need everyone’s support, not people calling us

I was in danger of enabling a vicious circle of shame, but meeting our guests, with the support of Lotte has helped me come to my queer senses. Patterson for the American Psychological Association found that the available data did not suggest higher rates of homosexuality among the children of lesbian or gay parents. As a whole, queer families are quite underrepresented in both mainstream and LGBTQ+ culture so we’ve had many people sending us messages to say how lovely it feels to be represented and to not feel alone. They were perceived to have abandoned their role as "fathers" through their MTF transition, and were perceived to have acted selfishly in putting their own sexual/identity needs before the wellbeing of their children. Sandi ToksvigThis informative, funny and empowering book from the hosts of the award-winning podcast Some Families is the must-have parenting toolkit for the LGTBQ+ community, their friends, family and allies.I have worked in the childcare industry for 20+ years and was a finalist in the UK Nanny of The Year Awards 2019. This technology helps us gather statistical and analytical information for marketing purposes, but the choice to accept cookies is always yours. This section is written like a personal reflection, personal essay, or argumentative essay that states a Wikipedia editor's personal feelings or presents an original argument about a topic. This comes down to the fact that if you aren’t in a straight couple you will have had to have been very sure you wanted to start a family, given the emotional and financial investment. Sandy Schuster and Madeleine Isaacson, who met at their Pentecostal church, won America's first custody battle in favor of a lesbian couple in 1978.