Less parental leave for same-sex male parents excludes them from benefits to child development.
Child & Family Blog EditorOctober 2019
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?
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
