This research on gay fathers contradicts beliefs that fathers have less innate caring ability than mothers and challenges the historical emphasis on mothers.
Child & Family Blog EditorApril 2020
Articles relating to adoption and the experience of adopted children, by some of the world’s top child and family researchers.
The research we cover on adoption looks at the issue of open adoption – adopted children staying in contact with their biological parents. What are risks and benefits of this arrangement?
The researchers found that a more important influence on the adopted child than having same-sex parents or heterosexual parents is how the family manages conflicts.
Child & Family Blog EditorSeptember 2019
Children raised in an adoptive family by two lesbian mothers show less gendered behavior than children adopted by gay fathers or heterosexual couples.
Child & Family Blog EditorDecember 2016
Research contradicts key concerns: that contact unsettles adoptees, increases birth mothers’ grief and exacerbates adoptive parents’ fears of losing child.
Professor Harold D. GrotevantFebruary 2015
