Father-child attachment in adoptive gay father families
Researchers assessed attachment through Friends and Family Interviews with children in thirty gay-father, twenty-nine lesbian-mother and thirty-eight heterosexual-parent adoptive families. Children in gay-father families showed higher secure-autonomous and lower disorganised attachment ratings than those in heterosexual-parent families.
Limitations: The selected observational sample does not establish effects caused by family type. Interview ratings concern attachment representations rather than a complete measure of wellbeing. Participants overlap with other Cambridge family-study publications. Published online in 2019 and in the 2020 journal issue; these are one paper.
- Research type
- Longitudinal interview assessment
- Source reviewed
- Abstract
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- 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, 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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Entry: study_899f7c6930c91e16