Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Book Cover
Bestseller
BestsellerE-Book
Author Mallon, Gerald P.

Title Gay men choosing parenthood / Gerald P. Mallon.

Publication Info. New York : Columbia University Press, [2004]
©2004

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Rocky Hill - Downloadable Materials  EBSCO Ebook    Downloadable
Rocky Hill cardholders click here to access this title from EBSCO
Description 1 online resource (xvi, 176 pages)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-170) and index.
Contents Introduction : gay and lesbian parenting-an overview -- 1. The journey toward parenting -- 2. Creating family -- 3. Community responses to gay dads -- 4. Gender politics and gay male parenthood -- Appendix : field experience in retrospect.
Note Print version record.
Summary Gay parenting is a topic on which almost everyone has an opinion but almost nobody has any facts. Here at last is a book based on a thorough review of the literature, as well as interviews with a pioneering group of men who in the 1980s chose to become fathers outside the boundaries of a heterosexual union?through foster care, adoption, and other kinship relationships. This book reveals how very natural and possible gay parenthood can be. What factors influence this decision? How do the experiences of gay dads compare to those of heterosexual men? How effectively do professional se.
Subject Gay fathers -- United States -- Interviews.
Gay fathers -- United States -- Psychology.
Gay fathers -- United States -- Attitudes.
Gay adoption -- United States.
Fatherhood -- United States -- Psychological aspects.
Gay fathers -- United States.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Parenting -- Fatherhood.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Social Work.
Other Form: Print version: Mallon, Gerald P. Gay men choosing parenthood. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2004 0231117965 0231117973 (DLC) 2003055086 (OCoLC)52377684
ISBN 0231508379 (electronic bk.)
9780231508377 (electronic bk.)
-->
Add a Review