Children of gay parents

Resources Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere (COLAGE): COLAGE engages, connects, and empowers people to make the world a better place for children of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and/or transgender parents and families. The children of lesbian parents are less likely to identify as heterosexual as adults and much more likely to report same-sex attraction, according to a long-term study by the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law, a think tank focused on sexual orientation and gender.

Though this media mainstreamification of gay parenting is a relatively new phenomenon, for decades, gay parents have had children in all sorts of family configurations—whether through adoption. News Politics World Local New York Los Angeles Chicago Dallas-Fort Worth Philadelphia Washington, D.

Boston Bay Area South Florida San Diego Connecticut Sports Business Culture Health Shopping Tipline Science. For this latest report, 76 children of lesbian parents, now all adults in their mids, were asked about their sexual attraction, identification and behavior. As for the big gender gaps among men and women from both the NLLFS and NSFG groups, Gartrell said these differences are consistent with previous research over the past 15 years that suggests women experience sexuality more fluidity than men.

For comparison, researchers demographically matched these offspring with year-old participants in the National Survey of Family Growth NSFG. Skip to the next and previous photo by typing j/k or ←/→. Skip to Content. My News Manage Profile Email Preferences Sign Out.

Search Search. Featured NBC News Now Nightly Films Stay Tuned Special Features Newsletters Podcasts Listen Now. More From NBC CNBC NBC. Same-sex parenting and children's outcomes: A closer examination of the American Psychological Association's brief on lesbian and gay parenting.

Opponents of same-sex parenting argue that it has an adverse impact on children. tv Today Nightly News MSNBC Meet the Press Dateline. This site now serves as a partial. Hints: View this page full screen. Profile My News Sign Out. Sign In Create your free profile.

IE 11 is not supported. As many as 6 million children and adults in the U. Nanette Gartrell, M. The study employs the National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study NLLFS , the longest-running, real-time study of sexual-minority-parent families in the world. Further, 54 percent of women and 33 percent of men with lesbian parents reported having a same-sex sexual experience between the ages of 17 and 25, compared to 38 percent of women and 9 percent of men in the NSFG group.

Same-sex parenting is parenting of children by same-sex couples generally consisting of gay, lesbian, or bisexual people who are often in civil partnerships, domestic partnerships, civil unions, or same-sex marriages. Welcome to , a site created by Abigail Garner, author of the Lambda Literary finalist, Families Like Mine: Children of Gay Parents Tell It Like It Is.

This site launched in with the mission to decrease isolation for people who have parents who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT), and bring voice to their experiences. NBC News Logo. However, scientific research consistently shows that lesbian and gay parents are as capable and.

Gay Parent Magazine: Gay Parent features personal stories of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender parents about their experiences with international and domestic adoption. Sections U. Local New York Los Angeles Chicago Dallas-Fort Worth Philadelphia Washington, D.

Boston Bay Area South Florida San Diego Connecticut. Social Science Research – [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar] Marquardt T., Glenn N., Clark K. My daddy's name is ‘donor’: A new study of young adults conceived through sperm donation. Started in , the study has been following the offspring of lesbian parents from conception into adulthood.

For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. About the broader National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study, Gartrell said its motivation was to understand the first generation of children conceived by donor insemination in the U. In a study published last year in the New England Journal of Medicine, Gartrell and her co-authors showed that from a mental health perspective, adult children with lesbian parents fared just as well as their peers with opposite-sex parents.

The children of gay parents aren’t “hypothetical”: They’re real and they’re ok.