Comments on: Weekend Reading on Kids Raised by Gay Parents

By: Trish

Trish — Fri, 02 May 2008 02:46:55 +0000

Looking for children of gay parents to speak to local PFLAG group. please email if interested.

By: Making it up as we go along at LesbianDad

Making it up as we go along at LesbianDad — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 08:12:17 +0000

[...] The ever-astute Dana Rudolph, clarified that distinction, and noted that “intentional” parenthood characterizes some, but by no means all families in the current “gayby” boom. Many kids are born into heterosexual families, before one or another parent comes out and continues to raise them. Significantly, at least as of the moment, families planned and realized from within LGBT community skew towards the white and the middle class on up, Dana notes, citing research by Gary Gates, of UCLA’s Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy (himself cited in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article about which she posted). [...]

By: Mombian: Sustenance for Lesbian Moms » Blog Archive » Teaching Non-LGBT Families a Thing or Two About Family Creation

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 22:41:40 +0000

[...] I agree with all of the points in Polly’s excellent post, but will offer one clarification. Not all LGBT families are “intentional” ones where both partners decide to have children together, using the shared contributions of kind strangers. In fact, Gary Gates, a senior research fellow at the Williams Institute of UCLA, has found that such families are “not the typical gay parent household.” A significant number of same-sex families have children from an earlier opposite-sex marriage, he says. (See also my post last week). [...]

By: PrideDEPOT.com - Inside Out - The PrideDEPOT.com Blog » Kids of gay parents explored

Mon, 11 Jun 2007 05:11:11 +0000

[...] The website, Mombian notes that in the article, Gary Gates, a senior research fellow at the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy at UCLA, who points out that most studies in support of children in LGBT families have focused on white couples of relatively high income, and on “intentional” same-sex parent households, where both partners decided to have children together. [...]