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ISBN-10:: 3030356094
ISBN-13:: 9783030356095
Pub. Date:: 04/04/2020
Publisher:: Springer International Publishing

ISBN-10:: 3030356094
ISBN-13:: 9783030356095
Pub. Date:: 04/04/2020
Publisher:: Springer International Publishing

LGBTQ-Parent Families: Innovations in Research and Implications for Practice / Edition 2

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Overview

This textbook offers a comprehensive overview of research on LGBTQ-parent families. The new edition of the textbook provides updated information and expands on the range and depth of current research. The volume features contributions from scholars in psychology, sociology, human development, family studies, gender studies, sexuality studies, legal studies, social work, and anthropology. In addition, the textbook offers an international perspective, with coverage spanning many diverse nations and cultures. Chapters highlight key research, exploring sexual orientation in relation to other key social identities, such as gender, race, and nationality. Chapters also discuss new, emerging areas of research, including asexuality and immigration. The textbook concludes with a section on the growing sophistication of research methodology in the study of LGBTQ-parent families.

The second edition includes new chapters discussing:

• LGBTQ-parent families and health.
• LGBTQ foster parents.
• LGBTQ adults and sibling relationships.
• LGBTQ-parent families and poverty.
• LGBTQ-parent families and separation/divorce.
• LGBTQ-parent families and religion. LGBTQ-parent families and grief/loss.
• Methods, recruitment, and sampling in research with LGBTQ families.
• Teaching/pedagogy on LGBTQ-parent families.

LGBTQ-Parent Families, 2^nd Edition, is a valuable updated resource for graduate students as well as veteran and beginning clinicians across disciplines, including family studies, family therapy, gender studies, public health, social policy, social work and child and adolescent psychology as well as related disciplines across mental health and educational services.

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ISBN-13:	9783030356095
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	04/04/2020
Edition description:	2nd ed. 2020
Pages:	546
Product dimensions:	7.01(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Abbie E. Goldberg is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. She received her BA in psychology from Wesleyan University, and an MA in psychology and a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research examines diverse families, including lesbian- and gay-parent families and adoptive-parent families. A central theme of her research is the decentering of any “normal” or “typical” family, sexuality, or gender, to allow room for diverse families, sexualities, and genders.

Katherine R. Allen is a Professor at the Department of Human Development and Family Science at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, USA. She received her B.S. in Child Development and Family Relations from University of Connecticut, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Syracuse University in Family Studies, with a Certificate in Gerontology. Her areas of expertise include family diversity over the life course, family gerontology, feminist family studies, LGBTQ families, and qualitative research methods.

Section 1: Overview.- Chapter 1. LGBTQ Parenting Post Heterosexual Relationship Dissolution.- Chapter 2. Lesbian-Mother Families Formed Through Donor Insemination.- Chapter 3. LGBTQ Adoptive Parents and Their Children.- Chapter 4. What Do We Now Know About Bisexual Parenting? A Continuing Call for Research.- Chapter 5. Race and Ethnicity in the Lives of LGBTQ Parents and Their Children: Perspectives from and beyond North America.- Chapter 6. LGBTQ-Parent Families in the United States and Economic Well-being.- Chapter 7. LGBTQ-Parent Families and Health.- Section 2: Understudied Areas.- Chapter 8. Gay Men and Surrogacy.- Chapter 9. LGBTQ Foster Parents.- Chapter 10. Polyamorous Parenting in Contemporary Research: Developments and Future Directions.- Chapter 11. Asexuality and Its Implications for LGBTQ-Parent Families.- Chapter 12. Transgender-Parent Families.-Chapter 13. Religion in the Lives of LGBTQ-Parent Families.- Chapter 14. LGBTQ-Parent Immigrant Families: We’re Here, We’re Queer, We’re Invisible.- Chapter 15. The “Second Generation:” LGBTQ Youth with LGBTQ Parents.- Chapter 16. LGBTQ Siblings and Family of Origin Relationships.- Chapter 17. LGBTQ Parents and the Workplace.- Chapter 18. LGBTQ-Parent Families and Schools.- Chapter 19. LGBTQ-Parent Families in Community Context.- Chapter 20. LGBTQ-Parent Families in Non-Western Contexts.- Chapter 21. Separation and Divorce among LGBTQ-Parent Families.- Chapter 22. Losing a Child: Death and Hidden Losses in LGBTQ-Parent Families.- Section 3: Applied Topics.- Chapter 23. The Law Governing LGBTQ-Parent Families in the United States.- Chapter 24. Clinical Work with LGBTQ Parents and Prospective Parents.- Chapter 25. Clinical Work with Children and Adolescents Growing Up with LGBTQ Parents.- Chapter 26. Reflectivity, Reactivity, and Reinventing: Themes from the Pedagogical Literature on LGBTQ-Parent Families in the Classroom and in Communities.- Section 4: Methodology.- Chapter 27. Multilevel Modeling Approaches to the Study of LGBTQ-Parent Families.- Chapter 28. Qualitative Research on LGBTQ-Parent Families.- Chapter 29. The Use of Representative Datasets to Study LGBTQ-Parent Families: Challenges, Advantages, and Opportunities.- Chapter 30. Methods, Recruitment, and Sampling in Research with LGBTQ-Parent Families.

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"Professors Goldberg and Allen have assembled a group of top-notch researchers and scholars with expertise on a vast array of topics relevant to sexual and gender minority parents and families. The result is a handbook that addresses the current state of the science, including what we know and what we have yet to learn about these increasingly common family forms. Researchers, teachers, service providers, attorneys, and policy makers will want to have this book on their shelf." (Gregory M. Herek, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, University of California, Davis)

“This first-rate handbook provides a comprehensive, astute, and accessible view of LGBT-parent families. With contributions from an interdisciplinary and international group of leading scholars, this volume covers every contemporary topic concerning LGBT families, including transgender parenting and LGBTQ youth with LGBTQ parents. Co-editors Drs. Goldberg and Allen have done an outstanding job in assembling experts to present overviews of the research and suggest applications for clinical work, policy, and advocacy. I highly recommend that this book be included in college and post-graduate social science courses on family life. This manual is essential reading for all clinicians.” (Nanette Gartrell, MD, Williams Institute Visiting Distinguished Scholar, UCLA School of Law, Principal Investigator, U.S. National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study)

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Reviewer: Charla Sue Waxman, BS, MBA, EdD (Lake Behavioral Hospital)
Description: If challenges create vulnerabilities, then knowledge creates empowerment. For anyone looking for an historical and current view of LGBTQ-parent families who wishes to understand them, this book can make authentic impact. As is the earmark of genuine research, here is an objective, but subjectively felt, body of work that compares and contrasts research trends, research models, and research opportunities for future exploration, as well as limitations of these studies. This second edition identifies the expansion of research since its first edition in 2013, which warranted this additional look into LGBTQ-parent families.
Purpose: Not even the preface of this book can go unread. The authors (and sometimes contributors) of the scholarly articles within have comprehensively examined the LGBTQ-parent family. From adoption within LGBTQ families to gay men and surrogacy, second-generation LGBTQ youth, and LGBTQ sibling issues, this compilation of studies affords readers an inside view of the LGBTQ family structure. It offers a glimpse that advances positive regard for the life outcomes of families and children. As stated in the preface, the authors hope to "...provide a powerful vehicle for understanding, advocacy, and social change." There is no doubt they did just that.
Audience: Designed for new graduates, veterans, and beginner clinicians, this book encompasses the breadth and depth of LGBTQ-parent family research. Whether mental health, education, social policy, or social reform interests, this book will meet the need. The authors of the research articles appear as contributors as well, making clear that their base of interest is also their base of expertise.
Features: More than 60 contributing researchers have come together to compose 26 bodies of research on LGBTQ- parent families. These real innovations in research and ways to apply the outcomes make this book a must-have and must-read. Readers are provided with a history of the topic and how it has or has not been relayed in the past. The research is immense, factual, and referenced. Applications for practice and opportunities and recommendations for future research is offered. These recommendations create a sense of relevance for the work and make the readers anticipate the potential for a third edition, which will be even more enlightening. The concept of stigma is the heart of this research, while resilience is the soul. Each researched body of work provides readers with increased knowledge of the topic. A phrase used in a particular study—"decentering of the family"—doesn't quite begin to describe what these works have offered to the field. Perhaps "recentering of the family" is what this book will bring about. If there are any limitations, this book is a tome. Full absorption of this substantive gathering might occur best in multiple volumes, especially since it is already a segmented piece of work.
Assessment: The preface clearly explains that recent advances in the field of LGBTQ work has caused a natural expansion from the first edition to include 12 more chapters and a revision of the 18 existing chapters. Raising a family is complex. Nurturing the framework of a family is hard work. Now, factor in the stigmatization and discrimination of an LGBTQ-parent family and you have a book that navigates some rough and challenging terrain. This must-read book advances the field of LGBTQ by not just supporting welcoming and affirming such families, but being aware and responsive to their actual needs and equipping practitioners with tools and skills that address challenges and opportunities through responsible research contributions.

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LGBTQ-Parent Families: Innovations in Research and Implications for Practice / Edition 2

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