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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Lesbian mothers"”.
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Fitting in: A study of lesbian mothers in rural southeastern Michigan
<p>Lesbian parents residing in rural and small communities have received little scholarly attention. The primary focus of the existing research has highlighted the isolation experienced by lesbian parents within such locations, but little examination has been made of other issues or their coping …
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Transforming law's family: the legal recognition of planned lesbian families
Lesbian families with children are greater in number and more visible today than ever before. In fact, social scientists have suggested that we may be in the midst of a lesbian "baby boom". Canada's Census figures support this assertion. Between 2001 and 2006 there was a forty-seven per cent …
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Disclosure in maternity care contexts: the paradigm case of sexual orientation: the paradigm case of sexual orientation
… employed unstructured interviews with eight lesbian mothers, seven of whom were birth mothers and one was a social mother. The hermeneutic method used an iterative process of analysis integrating researcher pre-understandings, thematic analysis of individual interview transcripts and broader …
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Law, state and the family : the politics of child custody.
… of law and legal practices in relation to mothers and the legal custody of children. It maps the history of statute law and re-reads legal practice focusing upon the way in which these practices reproduce and sustain the conditions of motherhood. The first section documents the construction …
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Intentional Mothering: A Black Feminist-Informed Thematic Analysis of How Black Queer Mothers Engage in Motherwork, Navigate Informal Support, and Access Community Resources
… narrowly on one domain of queer motherhood, lesbian mothers' experience of mothering (Bible et al., 2018) and centered on the experiences of White, middle-class, cisgender mothers (Brainer et al., 2020; Manley and Ross, 2020; Reczek, 2020). The interlocking nature of multiple marginalized …
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Different constellation and shining stars: lesbian parents’ experiences of accessing healthcare for their adopted children in England
… It is now more common for parents to be lesbians, which is due to increased social acceptance and the dissolution of legal barriers to parental responsibility. Adoption transforms the lives of some of the most vulnerable children. In 2019, 1 in 7 children in England were adopted by …
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Understanding the experiences of service users and staff in the promotion of responsive practices within the context of Health and Social Care
… participants were recruited; 4 gay fathers and 6 lesbian mothers. Semi-structured interviews were conducted and analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). Results: Data analysis highlighted three master themes: (1) Catalysts and considerations, (2) Roadblocks and (3) …