This paper reports on a qualitative study exploring the ways in which transgender adults imagine a place for parenthood in their lives, and/or the ways they have negotiated parenthood with their transgender identity. A total of 13 transgender adults (including parents and non-parents) were interviewed with respect to their thoughts and experiences about family, relationships and parenting. The ...

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...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To examine the experiences of being parented when mothers are diagnosed and treated for breast cancer from the perspectives of adolescent daughters. RESEARCH APPROACH Empirical phenomenologic. SETTING Participants were recruited from sites in Indiana and Arizona. PARTICIPANTS Eight adolescent daughters whose mothers had been diagnosed with and treated for breast cancer....

Abstract Introduction While bedtime routines are often recommended to address behavioural sleep problems in young children, these recommendations based on parental subjective assessment of behaviours which may not be accurate. The aim this study was establish the feasibility using wearable cameras objectively measure and pre-bedtime screen use preschool-aged children. Methods Sixteen children a...

Abstract Objective This article focuses on the challenges same‐sex‐parent families in Italy have faced context of COVID‐19 crisis. Background It is universally acknowledged that was first victim novel coronavirus Europe. Due to hazards caused by pandemic, Italian government implemented a series countermeasures help families, resolving increasingly irreconcilable conflicts between work and child...