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  title info:
    title: LGBT-Parent Families
    sub title: Innovations in Research and Implications for Practice
  name:
    name part: Goldberg, Abbie E.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Allen, Katherine R.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XV, 371 p. 2 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: “This first-rate handbook provides a comprehensive, astute, and accessible view of LGBT-parent families. With contributions from an interdisciplinary and international group of leading scholars, this volume covers every contemporary topic concerning LGBT families, including transgender parenting and LGBTQ youth with LGBTQ parents. Co-editors Drs. Goldberg and Allen have done an outstanding job in assembling experts to present overviews of the research and suggest applications for clinical work, policy, and advocacy. I highly recommend that this book be included in college and post-graduate social science courses on family life. This manual is essential reading for all clinicians.” - Nanette Gartrell, MD, Williams Institute Visiting Distinguished Scholar, UCLA School of Law, Principal Investigator, U.S. National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study “The appearance of a handbook on LGBT-parent families signals and advances the mainstreaming of a category of family that just a short time ago was utterly marginal, subversive, even illegal.”—from the Foreword by Judith Stacey, Ph.D. Paralleling their gains in legal rights and social acceptance is a rapidly growing knowledge base concerning sexually diverse families. Emphasizing what we know and what we still need to know about this maturing field, LGBT-Parent Families covers both major and less-studied areas of research, exploring clinical, methodological, policy, and advocacy issues alongside the contexts in which parents practice their craft and children experience their world. Inclusiveness beyond sexuality and gender is a crucial dimension of this volume: issues of race/ethnicity, social class, and geographic diversity are discussed by most of the contributors, including a chapter devoted to non-Western perspectives. Diverse, too, are the disciplines represented in the book, from psychology and psychiatry to human development and legal studies. Among the topics covered: Lesbian and gay adoptive parents A call for resear…
  note: edited by Abbie E. Goldberg, Katherine R. Allen.
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
  subject:
    topic: Public health
  subject:
    topic: Social policy
  subject:
    topic: Sociology
  subject:
    topic: Families
  subject:
    topic: Families
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Sex (Psychology)
  subject:
    topic: Gender expression
  subject:
    topic: Gender identity
  subject:
    topic: Social Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Family
  subject:
    topic: Gender Studies
  subject:
    topic: Public Health
  subject:
    topic: Social Policy
  classification: HQ1-2044
  classification: 306.85
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      title: Springer eBooks
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