Becoming parent
Subtitle: lesbians, gay men, and family
By: Damien W. Riggs.
Publisher: Post Pressed
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Teneriffe, Qld
Language: eng
Number of pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9781921214165
Subjects: Gay parents -- Australia.; Gay couples -- Family relationships -- Australia.; Lesbian couples -- Family relationships -- Australia.; Parenting -- Australia.; Parent and child -- Australia.; Gay rights -- Australia.
Description: Damien invites us to find different ways of responding to myths about lesbian and gay parenting. Damien shows us how myths, and psychologists' responses to them, function to uphold dominant values about parenting and families. He provides us with tools to take these myths apart and challenge the fears that drive many public (and private) discussions about our parenting. In this book, most importantly, he offers a language with which to change the conversation about lesbian and gay parenting. Damien, like most psychologists who write about and research lesbian and gay parenting, is concerned with creating a better world, but he asks us to pause and reflect on the strategies we use to bring about a better world and to question what exactly that world might look like. Clearly there are still many lesbians and gay men whose fitness to parent is called into question and some are likely to be helped by interventions that aim to counter myths and misconceptions about lesbian and gay parenting.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Contents; title: Foreword / Victoria Clarke; title: Acknowledgments; title: Preface; title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. What is a parent? : Family as a Verb; title: 3. Being normal: Is that what we want?; title: 4. 'Sounds like a conspiracy theory' : Rights and laws; title: 5. Language and sexuality : Films, storks and passing; title: 6. Knowing me, knowing you; title: Glossary; title: References.