The Experts below are selected from a list of 147 Experts worldwide ranked by ideXlab platform

Nanette Gartrell - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Adult offspring of Lesbian Parents: how do they relate to their sperm donors?
    Fertility and Sterility, 2020
    Co-Authors: Gabriël Beusekom, Nanette Gartrell
    Abstract:

    Objective To study how adult offspring in planned Lesbian-Parent families relate to their unknown or known donors. Design Qualitative analyses of the sixth wave of online surveys from a longitudinal study of adult offspring in planned Lesbian families, enrolled at conception. Setting Community-based United States national study. Patient(s) The 76 participants were 25-year-old donor insemination (DI) offspring whose Lesbian Parent(s) enrolled in a prospective longitudinal study when these offspring were conceived. Intervention(s) None. Main Outcome Measure(s) Offspring were asked about donor type, feelings about permanently unknown donor, satisfaction with and role of known donor, whether relationship with known donor was ongoing, and age of meeting open-identity donor. Result(s) This cohort (n = 76) of DI offspring with Lesbian Parents was among the first generation to reach adulthood. Thirty participants had permanently unknown donors and most participants felt comfortable about not knowing them. Sixteen participants had open-identity donors they had not met. Thirty had currently known donors—met in childhood (n = 22) or after open-identity donor disclosure (n = 8)—of whom two thirds had ongoing relationships with donors, half considered their donors as acquaintances, and nearly half had good feelings about their relationship, although a minority expressed conflicted feelings. Conclusion(s) This study of adult DI offspring from planned Lesbian families shows that those who knew their donors mainly felt positively about these relationships. Qualitative analyses offered insight into offspring-donor relationships, whose numbers are increasing due to historical and demographic trends.

  • self esteem and problem behavior in dutch adolescents conceived through sperm donation in planned Lesbian Parent families
    Journal of Lesbian Studies, 2020
    Co-Authors: Loes Van Rijnvan Gelderen, Nanette Gartrell
    Abstract:

    Until 2004, Dutch women seeking donor insemination through medical facilities could opt for open-identity or anonymous donors. Since then, Dutch law only permits open-identity donation. The present...

  • Meaning in Life as a Moderator between Homophobic Stigmatization and Coping Styles in Adult Offspring from Planned Lesbian-Parent Families
    Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 2019
    Co-Authors: Henny Bos, Audrey S. Koh, Gabriël Beusekom, Esther D. Rothblum, Nanette Gartrell
    Abstract:

    Introduction The current study examined whether achieving a sense of meaning in life moderated the association between experienced homophobic stigmatization and coping styles in emerging adult offspring of Lesbian mothers. In the sixth wave of the U S National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study, completed in 2017, the 76 participating offspring were 25 years old. Methods The offspring completed an online survey containing questions about homophobic stigmatization, coping styles (problem-focused, active emotional, and avoidant emotional coping), and meaning in life. Results The interaction between homophobic stigmatization and meaning in life was significant for problem-focused and avoidant emotional coping. Further analyses showed that for participants with low levels of meaning in life, exposure to homophobic stigmatization was associated with less problem-focused coping and more avoidant emotional coping. Discussion The social policy implications of these findings suggest that achieving a sense of meaning in life can serve as a protective factor in reducing the negative influence of homophobic stigmatization on coping styles. Social Policy Implications Thus homophobia associated with being raised by sexual minority Parents may affect offspring as adults, even after these offspring no longer live with their Parents. This finding illuminates the importance of developing a sense of meaning in life by encouraging self-efficacy on the part of schools and community organizations.

  • meaning in life as a moderator between homophobic stigmatization and coping styles in adult offspring from planned Lesbian Parent families
    Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 2019
    Co-Authors: Gabriël Beusekom, Nanette Gartrell, Esther D. Rothblum
    Abstract:

    The current study examined whether achieving a sense of meaning in life moderated the association between experienced homophobic stigmatization and coping styles in emerging adult offspring of Lesbian mothers. In the sixth wave of the U S National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study, completed in 2017, the 76 participating offspring were 25 years old. The offspring completed an online survey containing questions about homophobic stigmatization, coping styles (problem-focused, active emotional, and avoidant emotional coping), and meaning in life. The interaction between homophobic stigmatization and meaning in life was significant for problem-focused and avoidant emotional coping. Further analyses showed that for participants with low levels of meaning in life, exposure to homophobic stigmatization was associated with less problem-focused coping and more avoidant emotional coping. The social policy implications of these findings suggest that achieving a sense of meaning in life can serve as a protective factor in reducing the negative influence of homophobic stigmatization on coping styles. Thus homophobia associated with being raised by sexual minority Parents may affect offspring as adults, even after these offspring no longer live with their Parents. This finding illuminates the importance of developing a sense of meaning in life by encouraging self-efficacy on the part of schools and community organizations.

  • We Were Among the First Non-traditional Families": Thematic Perceptions of Lesbian Parenting After 25 Years.
    Frontiers in Psychology, 2019
    Co-Authors: Nanette Gartrell, Esther D. Rothblum, Gabriël Beusekom
    Abstract:

    In the sixth wave of the U.S. National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study (NLLFS), when their offspring were 25 years old, the Parents were asked to reflect on their most challenging and best experiences raising children in non-traditional families. The responses of 131 Parents were interpreted through thematic analysis. The most challenging Parenting experiences fell into five major categories: (1) distress about their children’s experiences of exclusion, heterosexism, or homophobic stigmatization; (2) family of origin non-acceptance of their Lesbian-Parent family; (3) the never-ending process of “educating the world about queer Parents”; (4) homophobia or hostility toward their non-traditional family; and (5) lack of legal protections for sexual minority Parent (SMP) families. Their best Parenting experiences included: (1) being role models, leading to a greater acceptance of LGBTQ people; (2) treasuring the LGBTQ Parent and family community; (3) teaching their children to appreciate diversity of all types; and (4) witnessing their child’s pride in their non-traditional family. Some of these challenges were anticipated by the Parents more than a quarter century ago at the time that they were inseminating or pregnant with the index offspring.

Gabriël Beusekom - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Adult offspring of Lesbian Parents: how do they relate to their sperm donors?
    Fertility and Sterility, 2020
    Co-Authors: Gabriël Beusekom, Nanette Gartrell
    Abstract:

    Objective To study how adult offspring in planned Lesbian-Parent families relate to their unknown or known donors. Design Qualitative analyses of the sixth wave of online surveys from a longitudinal study of adult offspring in planned Lesbian families, enrolled at conception. Setting Community-based United States national study. Patient(s) The 76 participants were 25-year-old donor insemination (DI) offspring whose Lesbian Parent(s) enrolled in a prospective longitudinal study when these offspring were conceived. Intervention(s) None. Main Outcome Measure(s) Offspring were asked about donor type, feelings about permanently unknown donor, satisfaction with and role of known donor, whether relationship with known donor was ongoing, and age of meeting open-identity donor. Result(s) This cohort (n = 76) of DI offspring with Lesbian Parents was among the first generation to reach adulthood. Thirty participants had permanently unknown donors and most participants felt comfortable about not knowing them. Sixteen participants had open-identity donors they had not met. Thirty had currently known donors—met in childhood (n = 22) or after open-identity donor disclosure (n = 8)—of whom two thirds had ongoing relationships with donors, half considered their donors as acquaintances, and nearly half had good feelings about their relationship, although a minority expressed conflicted feelings. Conclusion(s) This study of adult DI offspring from planned Lesbian families shows that those who knew their donors mainly felt positively about these relationships. Qualitative analyses offered insight into offspring-donor relationships, whose numbers are increasing due to historical and demographic trends.

  • Meaning in Life as a Moderator between Homophobic Stigmatization and Coping Styles in Adult Offspring from Planned Lesbian-Parent Families
    Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 2019
    Co-Authors: Henny Bos, Audrey S. Koh, Gabriël Beusekom, Esther D. Rothblum, Nanette Gartrell
    Abstract:

    Introduction The current study examined whether achieving a sense of meaning in life moderated the association between experienced homophobic stigmatization and coping styles in emerging adult offspring of Lesbian mothers. In the sixth wave of the U S National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study, completed in 2017, the 76 participating offspring were 25 years old. Methods The offspring completed an online survey containing questions about homophobic stigmatization, coping styles (problem-focused, active emotional, and avoidant emotional coping), and meaning in life. Results The interaction between homophobic stigmatization and meaning in life was significant for problem-focused and avoidant emotional coping. Further analyses showed that for participants with low levels of meaning in life, exposure to homophobic stigmatization was associated with less problem-focused coping and more avoidant emotional coping. Discussion The social policy implications of these findings suggest that achieving a sense of meaning in life can serve as a protective factor in reducing the negative influence of homophobic stigmatization on coping styles. Social Policy Implications Thus homophobia associated with being raised by sexual minority Parents may affect offspring as adults, even after these offspring no longer live with their Parents. This finding illuminates the importance of developing a sense of meaning in life by encouraging self-efficacy on the part of schools and community organizations.

  • meaning in life as a moderator between homophobic stigmatization and coping styles in adult offspring from planned Lesbian Parent families
    Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 2019
    Co-Authors: Gabriël Beusekom, Nanette Gartrell, Esther D. Rothblum
    Abstract:

    The current study examined whether achieving a sense of meaning in life moderated the association between experienced homophobic stigmatization and coping styles in emerging adult offspring of Lesbian mothers. In the sixth wave of the U S National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study, completed in 2017, the 76 participating offspring were 25 years old. The offspring completed an online survey containing questions about homophobic stigmatization, coping styles (problem-focused, active emotional, and avoidant emotional coping), and meaning in life. The interaction between homophobic stigmatization and meaning in life was significant for problem-focused and avoidant emotional coping. Further analyses showed that for participants with low levels of meaning in life, exposure to homophobic stigmatization was associated with less problem-focused coping and more avoidant emotional coping. The social policy implications of these findings suggest that achieving a sense of meaning in life can serve as a protective factor in reducing the negative influence of homophobic stigmatization on coping styles. Thus homophobia associated with being raised by sexual minority Parents may affect offspring as adults, even after these offspring no longer live with their Parents. This finding illuminates the importance of developing a sense of meaning in life by encouraging self-efficacy on the part of schools and community organizations.

  • We Were Among the First Non-traditional Families": Thematic Perceptions of Lesbian Parenting After 25 Years.
    Frontiers in Psychology, 2019
    Co-Authors: Nanette Gartrell, Esther D. Rothblum, Gabriël Beusekom
    Abstract:

    In the sixth wave of the U.S. National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study (NLLFS), when their offspring were 25 years old, the Parents were asked to reflect on their most challenging and best experiences raising children in non-traditional families. The responses of 131 Parents were interpreted through thematic analysis. The most challenging Parenting experiences fell into five major categories: (1) distress about their children’s experiences of exclusion, heterosexism, or homophobic stigmatization; (2) family of origin non-acceptance of their Lesbian-Parent family; (3) the never-ending process of “educating the world about queer Parents”; (4) homophobia or hostility toward their non-traditional family; and (5) lack of legal protections for sexual minority Parent (SMP) families. Their best Parenting experiences included: (1) being role models, leading to a greater acceptance of LGBTQ people; (2) treasuring the LGBTQ Parent and family community; (3) teaching their children to appreciate diversity of all types; and (4) witnessing their child’s pride in their non-traditional family. Some of these challenges were anticipated by the Parents more than a quarter century ago at the time that they were inseminating or pregnant with the index offspring.

Jacqui Gabb - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • locating Lesbian Parent families
    2005
    Co-Authors: Jacqui Gabb
    Abstract:

    Studies of changing family and kinship relations have demonstrated that no singular understanding of family exists: families are what families do.1 It is claimed that “transformations of intimacy” have restructured adult-sexual2 and Parent-child relationships,3 without obligation, around “elective love.”4 Research on Lesbian and gay Parent families highlights the importance of a “friendship ethic”5 where friends and partners are incorporated into fluid family forms.6 These “families of choice” are developing egalitarian Parental relationships based on gender “sameness.”7 Paradoxically, while research on Lesbian and gay Parent families adds to our understanding of emerging patterns of queer kinship,8 and the ways that Lesbian mothers negotiate the daily practices of mothering,9 little attention has been paid to the consequences of Parenthood on mothers’ Lesbianism. There has been some research into how Lesbian mothers manage their Parental and sexual identities,10 but how these identities and practices of self are materialized remains under-researched. In this chapter I demonstrate that by analyzing Lesbian Parent families through spatial structure it is possible to see the ways that Lesbian Parent families (re) present and experience themselves and how mothers manage their sexual-maternal identities.

  • locating Lesbian Parent families everyday negotiations of Lesbian motherhood in britain
    Gender Place and Culture, 2005
    Co-Authors: Jacqui Gabb
    Abstract:

    Although there is some research on Lesbian sexuality and space I contend that such analyses do not account for the ways in which Lesbian Parent families' actions and subjectivities are structured through the time–space nexus. The particularities of mothers' management of their maternal–sexual identities remain uncharted. In this article I interrogate how Lesbian Parent families negotiate everyday places, such as the street and schools and how they inhabit and produce space. I address their dis-location within academic studies, situating the home as critical in Lesbian Parents' consolidation of self. Home represents one of the few places where the sexual and maternal identities of Lesbian Parents may be reconciled. I suggest that the multiple identifications and subject positions of Lesbian mothers and their families need to be acknowledged so that they may be included within the queer cartography of Lesbian and gay space. The data cited in this article come from in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 1...

  • Lesbian m otherhood strategies of familial linguistic management in Lesbian Parent families
    Sociology, 2005
    Co-Authors: Jacqui Gabb
    Abstract:

    In this article I examine how Parental identities are negotiated in Lesbian Parent families. I argue that Lesbian mothers’ extraordinary maternity is not dependent on a feminist egalitarian ethic but instead comes from families’ strategic articulation of same-sex Parenthood, whereby gender is done and undone in multiple and contradictory ways. Focusing attention onto the ‘other (non-biological) mother’, I suggest that her lack of social status and (progenitor) maternal role disrupts simple readings of gendered Parenthood. I demonstrate that children’s creative familial-linguistic management of ‘family’ facilitates an inclusive conceptual framework, representing families as process. The data cited in this article comes from in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 18 Lesbian mothers and 13 of their children, who live across the Yorkshire region in the UK.

  • critical differentials querying the incongruities within research on Lesbian Parent families
    Sexualities, 2004
    Co-Authors: Jacqui Gabb
    Abstract:

    Contemporary research on ‘Lesbian families’ tends to portray them as progressive examples of non-nuclear Parenting that challenge traditional kinship formation. In contrast my data revealed that, in many instances, it remains the ‘birth mother’ who is figuratively and literally left ‘holding the baby’, and traditional understandings and experiences of family persist. This article calls into question the representativeness of radical models and addresses the differences between research findings on Lesbian Parent families. Rather than contest the accuracy of others’ research, I argue that the reasons for differences between analyses can be found in the research process. Thus I query the epistemological and methodological foundations of radical research into Lesbian Parent families.

Loes Van Rijnvan Gelderen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

Esther D. Rothblum - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Meaning in Life as a Moderator between Homophobic Stigmatization and Coping Styles in Adult Offspring from Planned Lesbian-Parent Families
    Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 2019
    Co-Authors: Henny Bos, Audrey S. Koh, Gabriël Beusekom, Esther D. Rothblum, Nanette Gartrell
    Abstract:

    Introduction The current study examined whether achieving a sense of meaning in life moderated the association between experienced homophobic stigmatization and coping styles in emerging adult offspring of Lesbian mothers. In the sixth wave of the U S National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study, completed in 2017, the 76 participating offspring were 25 years old. Methods The offspring completed an online survey containing questions about homophobic stigmatization, coping styles (problem-focused, active emotional, and avoidant emotional coping), and meaning in life. Results The interaction between homophobic stigmatization and meaning in life was significant for problem-focused and avoidant emotional coping. Further analyses showed that for participants with low levels of meaning in life, exposure to homophobic stigmatization was associated with less problem-focused coping and more avoidant emotional coping. Discussion The social policy implications of these findings suggest that achieving a sense of meaning in life can serve as a protective factor in reducing the negative influence of homophobic stigmatization on coping styles. Social Policy Implications Thus homophobia associated with being raised by sexual minority Parents may affect offspring as adults, even after these offspring no longer live with their Parents. This finding illuminates the importance of developing a sense of meaning in life by encouraging self-efficacy on the part of schools and community organizations.

  • meaning in life as a moderator between homophobic stigmatization and coping styles in adult offspring from planned Lesbian Parent families
    Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 2019
    Co-Authors: Gabriël Beusekom, Nanette Gartrell, Esther D. Rothblum
    Abstract:

    The current study examined whether achieving a sense of meaning in life moderated the association between experienced homophobic stigmatization and coping styles in emerging adult offspring of Lesbian mothers. In the sixth wave of the U S National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study, completed in 2017, the 76 participating offspring were 25 years old. The offspring completed an online survey containing questions about homophobic stigmatization, coping styles (problem-focused, active emotional, and avoidant emotional coping), and meaning in life. The interaction between homophobic stigmatization and meaning in life was significant for problem-focused and avoidant emotional coping. Further analyses showed that for participants with low levels of meaning in life, exposure to homophobic stigmatization was associated with less problem-focused coping and more avoidant emotional coping. The social policy implications of these findings suggest that achieving a sense of meaning in life can serve as a protective factor in reducing the negative influence of homophobic stigmatization on coping styles. Thus homophobia associated with being raised by sexual minority Parents may affect offspring as adults, even after these offspring no longer live with their Parents. This finding illuminates the importance of developing a sense of meaning in life by encouraging self-efficacy on the part of schools and community organizations.

  • We Were Among the First Non-traditional Families": Thematic Perceptions of Lesbian Parenting After 25 Years.
    Frontiers in Psychology, 2019
    Co-Authors: Nanette Gartrell, Esther D. Rothblum, Gabriël Beusekom
    Abstract:

    In the sixth wave of the U.S. National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study (NLLFS), when their offspring were 25 years old, the Parents were asked to reflect on their most challenging and best experiences raising children in non-traditional families. The responses of 131 Parents were interpreted through thematic analysis. The most challenging Parenting experiences fell into five major categories: (1) distress about their children’s experiences of exclusion, heterosexism, or homophobic stigmatization; (2) family of origin non-acceptance of their Lesbian-Parent family; (3) the never-ending process of “educating the world about queer Parents”; (4) homophobia or hostility toward their non-traditional family; and (5) lack of legal protections for sexual minority Parent (SMP) families. Their best Parenting experiences included: (1) being role models, leading to a greater acceptance of LGBTQ people; (2) treasuring the LGBTQ Parent and family community; (3) teaching their children to appreciate diversity of all types; and (4) witnessing their child’s pride in their non-traditional family. Some of these challenges were anticipated by the Parents more than a quarter century ago at the time that they were inseminating or pregnant with the index offspring.