The right to lesbian parenthood.

The right to lesbian parenthood.

The author argues that the minority homosexual section of our population--a larger minority than, for example, the ethnic minorities section--is more often than not excluded by the 'helping professions' from the right to be parents. The author appeals to the lack of scientific data supporting such exclusion and asks that homosexual parents and their children receive the same care from our insti...

Lesbian Couples’ Relationship Quality Across the Transition to Parenthood

The transition to parenthood is a time of stress for many couples. Most research on the transition to parenthood has been conducted with middle-class, heterosexual couples. The current study uses multilevel modeling to examine predictors of change in relationship quality (love and conflict) during the transition to parenthood in 29 lesbian couples. Predictors included personality variables, wor...

The Social Context of Lesbian Mothers' Anxiety During Early Parenthood

The right to parenthood: an argument for a narrow interpretation.

The paper argues for two kinds of limitations on the right of parenthood. First, it claims that the right to parenthood does not entail a right to have as many children as one desires. This conclusion follows from the standard justifications for the right to parenthood, none of which establishes the need to grant special protection to having as many children as one desires. Second, with respect...

New Ways of Parenting: Fatherhood and Parenthood in Lesbian Families

The article offers sociological analysis of some aspects of fatherhood and parenthood in the case of lesbian families with the starting idea that essential innovations in the parental identities, roles and practices are going on outside the “classical” (heterosexual and binary) parental roles known in modernity. Lesbian families (together with gay families) count for the most radical challenge ...