Comments on: Teaching Non-LGBT Families a Thing or Two About Family Creation http://www.mombian.com/2007/07/19/teaching-non-lgbt-families-a-thing-or-two-about-family-creation/ Sustenance for Lesbian Moms Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:39:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: alice http://www.mombian.com/2007/07/19/teaching-non-lgbt-families-a-thing-or-two-about-family-creation/comment-page-1/#comment-99309 alice Mon, 05 Apr 2010 00:16:08 +0000 http://mombian.com/2007/07/19/teaching-non-lgbt-families-a-thing-or-two-about-family-creation/#comment-99309 I think this post makes some good points about the influence of the egg recipient's/embryo-carrying woman's body's interaction with the developing cells. It seems that biological connections between the recipient and the embryo develop: http://stanford.wellsphere.com/pregnancy-fertility-article/women-who-give-birth-to-donor-egg-babies-are-the-biological-moms/749853. I think this post makes some good points about the influence of the
egg recipient’s/embryo-carrying woman’s body’s interaction
with the developing cells. It seems that biological connections
between the recipient and the embryo develop:
http://stanford.wellsphere.com/pregnancy-fertility-article/women-who-give-birth-to-donor-egg-babies-are-the-biological-moms/749853.

]]> By: Making it up as we go along at LesbianDad http://www.mombian.com/2007/07/19/teaching-non-lgbt-families-a-thing-or-two-about-family-creation/comment-page-1/#comment-63925 Making it up as we go along at LesbianDad Tue, 24 Jul 2007 08:09:19 +0000 http://mombian.com/2007/07/19/teaching-non-lgbt-families-a-thing-or-two-about-family-creation/#comment-63925 [...] 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). [...] [...] 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: Polly http://www.mombian.com/2007/07/19/teaching-non-lgbt-families-a-thing-or-two-about-family-creation/comment-page-1/#comment-62218 Polly Thu, 19 Jul 2007 23:32:22 +0000 http://mombian.com/2007/07/19/teaching-non-lgbt-families-a-thing-or-two-about-family-creation/#comment-62218 Thanks very much, Dana, both for the link to my post and for the astute extension of the points in it. It occured to me that I might use the phrase "intentional queer families" to clarify the cohort I refer to, but the dang essay weighed in at about the lengthiest one I've posted. Instead of using that term (familiar to those of us knowledgable folk, but perhaps needing some further explanation for a general audience) I wound up being a bit more oblique, using instead the short-hand "queer family-making" to refer to LGBT folk who set out to start their families in whichever ways we do. It seems so clear that ongoing research in the areas of queer family-making (intentional, revisionist, what have you) is vital to all our collective self-understanding. I was not surprised by the race- and class-based distinctions in Gates' findings, but I sure do hunger to know more about current trends. Thanks very much, Dana, both for the link to my post and for the astute extension of the points in it.

It occured to me that I might use the phrase “intentional queer families” to clarify the cohort I refer to, but the dang essay weighed in at about the lengthiest one I’ve posted. Instead of using that term (familiar to those of us knowledgable folk, but perhaps needing some further explanation for a general audience) I wound up being a bit more oblique, using instead the short-hand “queer family-making” to refer to LGBT folk who set out to start their families in whichever ways we do.

It seems so clear that ongoing research in the areas of queer family-making (intentional, revisionist, what have you) is vital to all our collective self-understanding. I was not surprised by the race- and class-based distinctions in Gates’ findings, but I sure do hunger to know more about current trends.

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