Modern Families: Parents and Children in New Family FormsModern Families brings together research on parenting and child development in new family forms including lesbian mother families, gay father families, families headed by single mothers by choice and families created by assisted reproductive technologies such as in vitro fertilisation (IVF), egg donation, sperm donation, embryo donation and surrogacy. This research is examined in the context of the issues and concerns that have been raised regarding these families. The findings not only contest popular myths and assumptions about the social and psychological consequences for children of being raised in new family forms but also challenge well-established theories of child development that are founded upon the supremacy of the traditional family. It is argued that the quality of family relationships and the wider social environment are more influential in children's psychological development than are the number, gender, sexual orientation, or biological relatedness of their parents or the method of their conception. |
Contents
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Lesbian mother families | 32 |
Testtube baby families 70 2 | 76 |
Donor conception families | 91 |
Surrogacy families | 117 |
Solo mother families | 138 |
Gay father families | 163 |
Conclusions | 192 |
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adolescents adopted children adoptive parents adults assessed assisted reproductive technologies associated baby behavioral problems biological birth Blake boys Brodzinsky chil child adjustment child development children born children conceived children of lesbian children raised children's psychological cognitive couples depression Developmental Psychology differences divorce donor conception donor insemination donor siblings dren egg donation egg donor embryo donation emotional ents experiences family forms family types gamete gay father families gender development gender role gender role behavior genetic gestational girls Golombok heterosexual families Human Reproduction ICSI identity ilies infants intended parents Jadva lesbian families lesbian mother families MacCallum ment mothers by choice multiple births Murray natural conception parent-child relationships parenthood Patterson percent pregnancy psychological adjustment psychological problems psychological well-being Reproduction Families Rutter same-sex parents securely attached sex-typed behavior sexual orientation single mothers single-mother families social sperm donor surrogacy surrogate mother tion traditional families twins women