21st Century Adoptive Families: A Longitudinal Study of Children Raised in Gay Father, Lesbian Mother and Heterosexual Parent Families
A UK longitudinal study followed children in gay-father, lesbian-mother and heterosexual-parent adoptive families from ages 3–9 to 10–14. Interviews, observations and questionnaires involved children, parents and teachers. Child adjustment difficulties increased across family types, while children also reported happiness and connectedness. Few differences between family types were found.
Limitations: The follow-up included 111 of the original 130 families. Family types were not randomly assigned, and associations cannot establish causal effects of parental gender. Direct child reports and parent/teacher assessments are different evidence. This thesis overlaps with the programme’s journal articles and is not an independent cohort.
- Research type
- Doctoral thesis
- Source reviewed
- Abstract
- Peer reviewed
- No
- Age group
- Children / Adolescents
Study context and review
Age group as recorded: Children / adolescents
Adoption context: Mixed adoption pathways
Programme: Cambridge UK adoptive gay-father / lesbian-mother family study
Institutional context: No relationship identified in the material checked
No adoption-sector organisational relationship identified from metadata reviewed. Funding and conflicts were not comprehensively audited; this is not confirmation of institutional independence.
Bibliographic screening. Bibliographic relationships are not a bias or safety rating.
Topics: adoptee voice, attachment, longitudinal research, mental health, Parent proxy evidence, Same-sex parent families
Review scope: Source checked: Abstract. This does not imply full-text or independent human verification.
Country as recorded: United Kingdom
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