Why Parenthood, and Why Now? Gay Men's Motivations for Pursuing Parenthood

Autor/inn/en	Goldberg, Abbie E.; Downing, Jordan B.; Moyer, April M.
Titel	Why Parenthood, and Why Now? Gay Men's Motivations for Pursuing Parenthood
Quelle	In: Family Relations, 61 (2012) 1, S.157-174 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0197-6664
DOI	10.1111/j.1741-3729.2011.00687.x
Schlagwörter	Neighborhoods; Parents; Homosexuality; Males; Child Rearing; Motivation; Qualitative Research; Adoption; Psychological Patterns; Age Differences; Income; Interpersonal Relationship; Context Effect; Minority Groups + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Neighbourhoods; Nachbarschaft; Eltern; Homosexualität; Male; Männliches Geschlecht; Kindererziehung; psychologische; Motivation (psychologisch); Qualitative Forschung; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Einkommen; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Ethnische Minderheit
Abstract	The current qualitative study of 35 preadoptive gay male couples (70 men) examined gay men's motivations to parent and their reasons for pursuing parenthood at the current time. Similar to heterosexual couples, gay men described a range of psychologically oriented reasons as shaping their decision to become parents. Some of these (e.g., desire to teach a child tolerance) may have been uniquely shaped by their sexual minority status, and others (e.g., desire to give a child a good home) in part reflect their adoptive status. Men named age, finances, and relationship factors, as well as unique contextual factors such as the need to find and move to gay-friendly neighborhoods, as influencing their readiness to pursue parenthood at the current time. Gay men's motivations to parent echo normative life course decision-making processes, but also reflect concerns that are uniquely informed by their sexual minority status. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10