Abstract

GATO, Jorge  and  FONTAINE, Anne Marie. Impact of sexual orientation and gender in parenting: A review of empirical studies about lesbian and gay parenting. Ex aequo [online]. 2011, n.23, pp.83-96. ISSN 0874-5560.

The conviction that the simultaneous presence of a mother and a father are essential for the proper exercise of parenthood is associated with the notion that motherhood and fatherhood involve mutually exclusive skills in terms of gender. However, this belief is derived primarily from studies that confound the effect of different variables, such as the number of parents or their marital status. Although there is not a body of research that has deliberately isolated the effect of gender in parenting, studies with lesbian and gay parents provide a unique opportunity to clarify this impact. In this work, we have looked at this extensive group of studies, analyzing the effect of sexual orientation and gender in parenting.

Keywords : sexual orientation; gender; parenting.

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