The Queer Parent: Everything You Need to Know From Gay to Ze

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From adoption, surrogacy, fertility treatment and other routes to parenthood, to donors, trans parenting, how to deal with family-focused homophobia, coming out at the school gates and much more, The Queer Parent is a groundbreaking toolkit for LGBTQ+ parents, parents-to-be, and anyone looking to support their journey. Stacey and Biblarz and Herek stress that the sexual orientation and gender identification of children is of limited relevance to discussions of parental fitness or policies based on the same. Furthermore, whereas factors such as the number and cohabitation status of parents can and do influence relationship quality in aggregate, the same has not been demonstrated for sexuality. Social supports, ally development, and positive school environments are direct ways to challenge homophobia and transphobia directed at these students and their families. A gay man, a lesbian, or a transgender person who transitions later in life may have children within an opposite-sex relationship, such as a mixed-orientation marriage, for various reasons.

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And I still experienced homophobia from work colleagues in recent years, which was a shock after being open about it for so long. If I was an exclusively gay guy, I might robustly define my sexuality against heteronormativity in ways which could be punchy and sharp. LGBTQ+ people have more options than ever before when it comes to starting a family, but a lack of both focused information and mainstream representation can leave parents, prospective parents, friends and relatives in the dark. With the perceived strengths of motherhood being defined because of the perceived failings of fatherhood. I knew very little about the process of adoption until I started hosting Some Families with Stu, who shared his experience of adopting two children and then, a year later, a third.But while each of their options and journeys to becoming a queer parent will differ, all of them face the same problem: there is very little information out there catering to LGBTQ+ families. Therefore in the book we cover a wide range of topics including mental health, schools, holidaying as a queer parent, gender impact on families, race, the impact of gay shame on parenting and doing it solo. Canada has started acknowledging trans parental rights in terms of custody arrangements and of legal recognition of parental status. Gartrell and Bos's 25-year longitudinal study, published 2010, was limited to mothers who sought donor insemination and who may have been more motivated than mothers in other circumstances. The court ruled that Philadelphia's decision to dismiss the contract violated the rights granted by the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment.

The Queer Parent: Everything You Need to Know From Gay to Ze

Not long after giving birth, while battling to feed a premature infant with my body, I picked up a copy of Claire Lynch’s memoir Small: On Motherhoods. The authors found that children raised by same-sex parents from birth perform better than children raised by different-sex parents in both primary and secondary education. The lawyer for Philadelphia, Neal Katyal, argued that, "You can't on Monday sign a contract that says we won't discriminate and on Tuesday go ahead and discriminate. I might also – by virtue of a lifetime of homophobia and trauma that may have started in the home as a child – have latently negative views about the whole concept of family.

Lesbians are still having to pay crippling fertility costs that straight people get via the NHS, queer people with HIV are limited in fertility treatment that straight people are not, and don’t even get us started on rights for trans parents. Several legal and social protections support children and parents who experience transphobia and homophobia in the community, school, and family. It was these aspects combined that inspired me to co found The Queer Parenting Partnership with Kim, to create a space for LGBTQ+ people to gather knowledge that is culturally appropriate, away from cisheteronormativity, to make informed decisions and network with other families that are similar to them. 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.