Understanding resilience in same-sex parented families: the work, love, play study

Understanding resilience in same-sex parented families: the work, love, play study

BACKGROUND While families headed by same-sex couples have achieved greater public visibility in recent years, there are still many challenges for these families in dealing with legal and community contexts that are not supportive of same-sex relationships. The Work, Love, Play study is a large longitudinal study of same-sex parents. It aims to investigate many facets of family life among this s...

Same-sex parented families in Australia

Orchestration of work and play within families.

OBJECTIVES Parental occupations within families include parents' participation in household work and in play with their children. This study explored the nature of parents' play with their preschool-aged children and how it was orchestrated within their daily occupations. METHOD Participant observations and intensive interviews were conducted with 10 families with preschool-aged children. Dat...

Evaluating the welfare of the child in same-sex families.

Within the field of medically assisted reproduction, the welfare of the child is advanced as the major argument to decide the acceptability of certain applications. This argument, however, needs a complex framework in order to be understood and used properly. The effect of empirical evidence regarding the welfare of the child on people's judgments about the acceptability of same-sex families wi...

Same-sex sexual behaviour in crickets: understanding the paradox

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2016.01.022 0003-3472/© 2016 The Association for the Study of A Same-sex sexual behaviour (SSSB) occurs in animals ranging from insects to mammals, yet its evolutionary origins remain enigmatic. Is it adaptive, or has it evolved as a by-product of selection for other traits? Using data from two experiments on male spring field crickets, Gryllus veletis, we te...