SOCIOLOGY/ANTHROPOLOGY//
SOCIOLOGIE/ANTHROPOLOGIE:
GAY PARENTS/CUSTODY/ADOPTION
//PARENTS GAIS/GARDE LÉGALE
Arnup, Katherine.
“‘Des
mères tout comme les autres’: les lesbiennes, le divorce et la garde
d’enfants
au Canada.” Revue juridique La femme
et le droit [= Canadian Journal
of Women and the Law] 8(1) (1995): 223-240.
“Examines the
reported cases in
in which lesbianism was a factor in either divorce proceedings or
custody applications” – NISC Gay & Lesbian Abstracts.
Arnup, Katherine.
“‘Mothers
Just Like Others’: Lesbians, Divorce and Child Custody in
Canadian
Journal of Women and the Law 3(1) (1989): 18-32.
Arnup, Katherine.
“‘We
Are Family’: Lesbian Mothers in
Research
20(3/4) (Winter 1991): 101-107.
Arnup, Katherine, ed.
Lesbian
Parenting: Living with Pride & Prejudice.
Gynergy, 1995.
(418
p.; ISBN 0921881339)
Review:
Lisa Freedman, Canadian Woman Studies 16(2) (Spring 1996):
127.
“BC
Gay Parents Gain Equality: Law First in
Couples Right to Child Support, Custody.” Globe and Mail [Metro
ed.],
February 5, 1998, pp. A1,
A13.
Bigner, J. J., and Jacobsen, R. B.
“The Value of Children to Gay Fathers.” Canadian Journal of Pediatrics,
June
1991, p. 22.
Booth, Mary L.
“Lesbian Access to Donor Insemination.” Social Worker 63(3) (1995): 137-139.
Bouchard, Claire.
“Faire
face à l’homosexualité d’un parent.” Filles
d’aujourd’hui 16(3)
(janv.
1996): 12-14.
Brewin, Alison.
“Two Mothers: Can a Lesbian Partner Be a ‘Real’
Parent?” Today’s Parent 15(10)
(Nov.
1998): 28 (740
words).
Brophy, Julia.
“New Families, Judicial Decision-Making, and Children’s Welfare.”
Canadian
Journal of Women and the Law 5 (1992): 484-497.
Casey, Shelley.
“Homosexual Parents & Canadian Child Custody Law.” Family and
Conciliation
Courts Review [
Coffey, Mary A.
“Seizing
the Means of Reproduction: Proposal for an Exploratory Study of
Alternative Fertilization
and Parenting Strategies among Lesbian Women.”
Resources for Feminist Research 18(3)
(Sept. 1989): 76-79.
Cole, Susan G.
“Lesbian Parents Make
Strides.” Herizons
15(2)(Fall 2001): 46.
Cooper, Jennifer A.
Opinion on Adoption: An Opinion
respecting Persons in Common-law
Relationships.
([32] p.)
Possibly broader than scope of this list, but one of OCLC catalog
descriptors
is Gay adoption –
Research Index with subtitle and title proper reversed and with pagination
as 36 p. Abstract given in CRI entry, along with accession no. 3786973,
Microlog no. 102-03060, and ProQuest document ID 1133357291.
NOTE ALSO that
there is a similar but separate entry for a
in CRI, entered as:
Review Panel on Common Law Relationships: Interim Opinion on
Adoption (2001; 40 p.), which has among its descriptors “sexual
orientation” and “adoption,” and which carries various identification
numbers in CRI, including accession no. 3786971, Microlog no.
102-03059, and ProQuest document ID 1133357281.
Desjardins, Isabelle H.
“Peut-on
être mère et homosexuelle?” Femme
plus 12(3) (avril 1999): 14-15.
“Témoignage de Diane Labelle, mère et
lesbienne; propos de Marcelle
Dolment…sur l’opposition du RAIF au droit à l’enfant pour
les
homosexuels et lesbiennes” – Repère résumé.
Dickerson, James L., and Allen, Mardi.
The Basics of Adoption: A Guide
for Building Families in the
(288 p.)
Much broader than scope of this list, but PsycINFO abstract notes
that one of several highlights of the book is “advice on gay parent
adoptions.”
Duggan, Scott J.
“Factors relating to Parenting by Non-heterosexual Fathers.”
Ph.D.
dissertation,
(242 p.; ISBN 9780494278697)
“…two interconnected studies. Study One was conducted as an
Internet survey that requested mostly demographic information from
non-heterosexual men, both fathers and non-fathers….Study Two
consisted of interviews with both non-heterosexual fathers and non-
fathers….” --from abstract, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses,
ProQuest document ID 1354133141; Publication no. AAT NR27869.
Edwards, Bob.
“Just Be Quiet about IT: Lesbians Still Face Custody Battles.” This Magazine
26(5) (Dec. 1992): 10.
Ellis, David.
“Opening the Door on Family Secrets.” Canadian Dimension 28(5)
(Oct./Nov. 1994): 45-46.
Regarding a gay father.
Epstein, Rachel.
“Breaking
with Tradition.” Healthsharing [
18-22.
Lesbian couples as parents.
Epstein, Rachel.
“Lesbian Parenting: Grounding Our Theory.” Canadian Woman Studies 16(2)
(Spring 1996): 60-64 (3842 words).
Epstein, Rachel.
“Queer Parenting in the New
Millennium: Resisting
Canadian Woman Studies 24(2-3) (Winter/Spring 2005): 6-14.
Ref.: CBCA index.
Foster, Deborah.
“Why Do Children Do So Well in Lesbian Households? Research on Lesbian
Parenting.” Canadian Woman Studies 24(2-3) (Winter/Spring 2005): 50+
Ref. in CBCA index gives pp. 51-56 for this item.
Fraser,
“Reactions to Child Custody Decisions Involving Homosexual and Heterosexual
Parents.” Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science 27(1) (Jan. 1995): 52-63.
Frazer, Danica.
“Changing Agency Policy and Practice to Support the Inclusion of Gays and
Lesbians as Therapeutic Foster Parents.” Master’s practicum dissertation,
“This practicum targeted a multi-service child and youth care agency
in which lesbian women and gay men were implicitly excluded from
serving as therapeutic foster parents. The setting…is a not-for-profit,
provincially chartered, and publicly-funded organization, headquartered
in
acceptance of gays and lesbians as therapeutic foster parents within the
agency” – NISC Gay & Lesbian Abstracts, from ERIC. Document
available from EDRS,
Gagnon, Marie Julie.
“‘Mon père est gai’: du refus à l’acceptation.” Filles d’aujourd’hui 20(2)
(déc. 1999): 60-61.
“Gay Adoption Breaks New Ground: Court Rulings Have Forced Most Provinces to
Allow Same-Sex Couple to Adopt Children.” Globe and Mail [Metro ed.], July 9,
2001, p. A3.
“Gay Parents.”
Geller, Lissa.
“New Law Allows
Same-Sex Adoption [in
July/August 1995, p. 9.
Greatheart, Garth.
“Making Family and Choosing Kinship Ties: Inclusion of Lesbian and Gay
Couples in Canadian Adoption
Legislation.” MSW thesis,
2000.
(208
p.)
Halpern, Sylvie.
“Des parents comme les
autres?” Châtelaine, mai 2002,
pp. 85-90.
Hamilton, Jane.
“Significant (M)others.” Maclean’s [
p. 11 (614 words).
Igartua, Karine J.
“Oui,
ma mère est lesbienne et alors?: défis et stratégies
de familles lesbiennes.”
PRISME 8(2) (été 1998): 208-221.
“Judge OKs Same-Sex Adoption: Law As It Stands Unconstitutional, NS [Nova
Julien, Danielle; Dubé, Monique; et Gagnon, Isabelle.
“Le
développement [personnel et social] des enfants de parents homosexuels
comparé à celui des enfants de parents hétérosexuels.” Revue québécoise
de psychologie 15(3) (1994): 135-153.
Kelly,
Fiona Jane.
“Transforming Law’s Family: The Legal Recognition of Planned Lesbian
Families.” Ph.D. thesis,
“…addresses the legal issues raised by lesbian motherhood, focusing
primarily on legal parentage. It considers the terms upon which
parental recognition has been achieved thus far….”
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record no. 33825636, which provides
URL links and an abstract.
Kurukulasuriya, L., and Keane, S.
“Conceivable
Options.” Refractory Girl
[Camperdown, NSW,
(Summer-Winter 1997): 36-41.
“Single women and lesbians in partnerships are increasingly choosing
artificial insemination to create their families. This article reports on the
Canadian
experience, and the situation in
Lesbian Abstracts. Author said to be Toronto-based and a Carleton
University (
Laurence, Jocelyn.
“Dad and
Dad and the Kids.” Toronto Life, January
1987, pp. 21-23.
Lavoie, Stephanie; Julien, Danielle, et Fortier, Christiane.
“Le
Rôle de l’affirmation de l’identité homosexuelle parentale dans
l’expérience des enfants ayant un père gai ou une mère lesbienne.”
Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health 25(1) (Spring 2006) : 51-65.
Leblond de
Brumath, Annie, 1978-
“Étude
des facteurs décisionnels associés au projet parental de couples lesbiens.”
Ph.D. thesis, Université du
Québec à Montréal, 2006.
Ref. : AMICUS catalogue record no. 33567939 (record for microfiche),
which carries a lengthy abstract in French.
Luce, Jacquelyne.
“Imaging Bodies, Imagining Relations: Narratives of Queer Women and
‘Assisted Conception’.” Journal of Medical Humanities 25(1) (Spring 2004):
47-56.
Ref.: PsycINFO index, which provides abstract and notes that
“…article is based on ethnographic research conducted between 1998 and
2000 in
MacDonald, Geri A.
“Connections that Count: Lesbian Mothers, Institutional Relationships and
Child Custody.” M.S.W. thesis,
(202 leaves)
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record no. 29384004; also Novanet catalogue.
MacEachern, Pam.
“Homophobia Is Not in a Child’s Best Interest.” Kinesis, May 1998, pp. 5, 7.
“Equality of Gays & Lesbians Everywhere” before the Senate/House of
Commons Committee on Custody and Access; child custody/gay rights.
McKinstry, David R. I.
A Swim against the Tide: The Fight to Adopt Children into a Loving Home.
(295 p.; ISBN 0973094958)
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue no. 28174484.
Mercier, Johanne.
“
‘Mère de famille, lesbienne…et enfin heureuse.”
Femme plus 9(8)
(sept.
1996): 26-29.
“Entrevue
avec Ondine Caldji sur la formation de son identité
sexuelle, sur
son mariage avec un homme, sa vie de couple avec une femme,
la
réaction de ses enfants,…” – Repère résumé.
Nadeau, Carole Line.
“L’insémination
artificielle des lesbiennes: zone grise.”
La Gazette des femmes
19(4)
(nov.-déc. 1997): 28-30.
Nafziger,
Gloria, comp.
Home Truths: Lesbian Mothers Come Out to Their Daughters.
(ca. 106 p.; ISBN 096852575X)
Essays and poems.
Nelson, Fiona A. L.
“Constructing Motherhood: An Exploration of Lesbian Families.” MA thesis,
(240 p.)
“Lesbian families are examined with particular attention to stages in the
process of family construction and challenges that tend to be unique to
lesbian families” – abstract from Canadian Research Index.
Nelson, Fiona.
Lesbian Motherhood: An Exploration of Canadian Lesbian Families.
(159 p.; ISBN 0802007651; 080207135X)
Reviews:
Mary Louise Adams, Labour [
and/et Angeles Taharia,
PRISME 8(2) (été 1998): 290-294.
Parentalité
gaie et lesbienne: famille en marge? : actes de
colloque.
Montréal:
Association canadienne pour la santé mentale, Filiale de Montréal, 2001.
“Textes
présentés lors d’un colloque tenu à l’Université du Québec à
Montréal
au printemps 2001” – AMICUS catalogue record no. 25939382.
Perron, Patricia,
et Bergeron, Louis Félix.
“[Les
réalités homosexuelles].” Magazine
jeunesse 9(1) (automne 2000): 28-31.
“Témoignage
de parents homosexuels et d’un enfant ayant un père gai” –
Repère résumé.
Philp, Margaret.
‘‘Gay Parent, Gay Child: Into the Mainstream.’’ Globe and Mail [Metro ed.],
June 10, 2003, p. A7.
Ricard, Nathalie, 1966-
Maternités lesbiennes.
Montréal: Editions du Remue-ménage, 2001.
(189 p.; ISBN 2890911780)
Richard, Hélène.
“Désir d’enfant?: la maternité planifiée chez les couples lesbiens: un
début
de
réflexion [en] clinique [psychanalytique].”
Revue québécoise de
psychologie
22(1)(2001): 5-19.
Riopel, Marie, et Tardif, Danielle.
“Adoption:
l’autre revanche des berceaux!” Femme
plus 8(7) (août 1995): 24-28.
Mères
lesbiennes, etc.
Schulenberg, Jennifer.
“Same-Sex Rights for Lesbian Mothers: Child Custody and Adoption.”
Canadian Woman Studies 19(1/2) (Spring/Summer 1999): 45-51 (5351 words).
Sharp, Sheena.
“Same
Sex Adoption.” Humanist in
Stone, Sharon Dale.
“The Right to Be Different: A Study of the Lesbian Mothers’ Defence Fund.”
MA
thesis,
(109 p.)
“This thesis is a study of the….LMDF, a support/service/protest/
[grassroots, voluntary] group for lesbian mothers in the city
of
abstract from Canadian Research Index/UMI.
Susset, Françoise, et Boulanger, Michel.
“Le
développement des enfants de parents homosexuels.” PRISME 5(2/3)
(été 1995): 314-320.
Swerhone, Patricia Mary.
“The ‘Artificial Family’: Adoption, New Reproductive Technologies, and the
Dominance
of the Biologically Based Family.”
MSW thesis,
1998.
(205 p.)
“The goal of this paper is to demonstrate that it is not the use of
NRT per se that places donor children at risk for future emotional harm…
but the history of secrecy and denial attached to the utilization of such
technology with heterosexual two-parent families….This paper will
illuminate the unique make-up of the lesbian and single-parent families
that utilize NRT to create children, without the practices of secrecy…” –
abstract from ProQuest Digital Dissertations.
Swinimer, Marianette.
“Children of Lesbians: The Lesbian Family Socialization Experience.”
B.A.
Honours thesis in Sociology and Anthropology,
University, 1994.
(ca. 109 leaves).
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record no. 22925661.
Traquair, Helen Morgan E. Nugent.
“Lesbian Mothers by Choice: An Exploratory Study.” MA thesis, University of
(161 p.)
Ullyott, Kathy.
“My Folks Are Gay : Does This Kind of Parent Produce a Different Kind of
Child?” Chatelaine, November 1990, pp. 103-107.
Vervoort, David John.
“Gay Fathers Coming Out to Their Children: Reaching for Integrity.”
MSc
thesis,
(92 p.)
Wallace, Mary; MacKay, Lee; and Nagler, Dorrie.
Children and Feminism. Edited by Lee MacKay.
Feminist Mothers Political Action Group, 1987.
(ca. 284 p.; ISBN 0969325606)
“When a Parent is Homosexual.” Globe and Mail, January 5, 1984, p. L1.
Whitfield, Wendy C.
“Protective Custody.” Broadside: A Feminist Review 8(6) (April 1987): 6.
Interview with Gayle Bezaire; gays; custody of children.
Wysong, Pippa.
“Do Gays Make Good Parents?” Medical Post 33(20) (May 27, 1997): 39.
Survey.