TY - BOOK ID - 8155021 TI - Growing up in a lesbian family : effects on child development. AU - Tasker, Fiona L. AU - Golombok, Susan. PY - 1997 SN - 1572301708 PB - New York (N.Y.) Guilford DB - UniCat KW - LESBIAN MOTHERS -- 301.185.1 KW - Child development KW - -Children of gay parents KW - -Gender identity KW - -Lesbian mothers KW - -Sex role KW - -#GBIB:CBMER KW - Gender role KW - Sex (Psychology) KW - Sex differences (Psychology) KW - Social role KW - Gender expression KW - Sexism KW - Lesbian parents KW - Gay parents KW - Mothers KW - Sex identity (Gender identity) KW - Sexual identity (Gender identity) KW - Identity (Psychology) KW - Queer theory KW - Children of gay men KW - Children of homosexual parents KW - Children of lesbians KW - Gay parents' children KW - Child study KW - Children KW - Development, Child KW - Developmental biology KW - Developmental psychobiology KW - Child rearing KW - Family relationships KW - Development KW - Children of gay parents KW - Gender identity KW - Lesbian mothers KW - Sex role KW - #GBIB:CBMER UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8155021 AB - Legal battles over same-sex marriage have drawn increasing public attention to the question of whether lesbian and gay families can raise happy, healthy children. Opponents of the legal recognition of homosexual unions have based their arguments in part on the premise that children brought up by parents of the same sex face significant social and psychological disadvantages. This pioneering volume provides an objective and long overdue look at the experiences of the children themselves. Presenting a unique longitudinal study of 25 children raised in lesbian mother families, and a comparison group raised by single heterosexual mothers, the book examines the developmental effects of growing up in a same-sex household--and confronts a range of myths and stereotypes along the way. [publisher's description] ER -