ArticleFrontiers in psychology2020
Stigma Experiences, Mental Health, Perceived Parenting Competence, and Parent-Child Relationships Among Lesbian, Gay, and Heterosexual Adoptive Parents in the United States.
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- Family outcome disparities between sexual minority and heterosexual families: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMJ global health · 2023Pooled it
- An exploratory fMRI study on the association of parental involvement in childcare with brain responses to infant vocalisations and dyadic interaction quality in same-sex mother families.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Exploring the intersection of gender identity and homoparental family structure: Implications for educational, family and personal well-being in Spanish students.The British journal of developmental psychology · 2025Article
- Stigma Experiences of Sexual and Gender Minority Parents and Offspring Mental Health.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- The association between parenthood and health: A comparison of people in same-sex and different-sex relationships.SSM - population health · 2024Article
- Stronger color evasive racial ideologies predict lower likelihood of open adoption placement with same-sex couples.Frontiers in sociology · 2024Article
- Editorial: Health and Well-Being Related to New Family Forms: Perspectives of Adults, Couples, Children, and Professionals.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Mental Health Disparities Between Lesbian Mothers and Heterosexual Parents: the Mediating Role of Positivity.Sexuality research & social policy : journal of NSRC : SR & SP · 2023Article
- Assisted Conception Socialization Self-Efficacy Among Israeli Lesbian, Gay, and Heterosexual Parent Families and its Association with Child Externalizing Problems.Journal of child and family studies · 2023Article
- Minority Stress and Positive Identity Aspects in Members of LGBTQ+ Parent Families: Literature Review and a Study Protocol for a Mixed-Methods Evidence Synthesis.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Mothers' Sexual Identity and Children's Health.Population research and policy review · 2022Article
- Disentangling the Effect of Sex and Caregiving Role: The Investigation of Male Same-Sex Parents as an Opportunity to Learn More About the Neural Parental Caregiving Network.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Adoption openness and adoption stigma: a retrospective study of adult adoptees.SN social sciences · 2022Article
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Abstract
Adoptive parents often face stigma related to "non-traditional" family structures. Lesbian and gay (LG) adoptive parents often face additional stigmatization based on sexual identity, which in turn may negatively affect parents' mental health. Despite controversy about LG parenting, research demonstrates that family processes are more strongly associated with individual outcomes than family structure. Thus, family systems and minority stress theories provided our conceptual foundation in examining how adoptive LG parents' stigma experiences were associated with mental health, parenting competence, and parent-child relationships. Participating families (
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