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Parenting and Couple Relationships Among LGBTQ+ People in Diverse Contexts

  • Analyzes how same-sex couples are changing the traditional concepts of family and parenthood
  • Presents innovative contributions to psychological studies of LGBTQ+ parenting and couple relationships
  • Provides useful insights to child and family therapists working with LGBTQ+ families and couples

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
  2. Persistent Issues for LGBTQ+ Families

    • Fabio Scorsolini-Comin, Normanda Araujo de Morais, Elder Cerqueira-Santos
    Pages 1-6
  3. Attitudes Toward LGBTQ+ People and LGBTQ+ Rights in Continental American-Hispanic Nations

    • Pedro Alexandre Costa, Fernando Salinas-Quiroz
    Pages 25-39
  4. Coming Out in Families of Gay and Lesbian People

    • Geysa Cristina Marcelino Nascimento, Fabio Scorsolini-Comin
    Pages 41-56
  5. Lesbian Families: Intersection Between Internalized Homophobia and Old Age

    • Juliana Fernandes-Eloi, Dóris Firmino Rabelo
    Pages 57-73
  6. Social Transformations and Couple Relationships in Brazilian Gay Men

    • Yurín Garcêz de Souza Santos, Manoel Antônio dos Santos
    Pages 95-113
  7. Vulnerabilities Experienced by Trans Couples in Times of COVID-19

    • Aline Nogueira de Lira, Sarah Félix Noronha, Lícia Marah Figueredo de Mesquita
    Pages 115-136
  8. Resilience in Families Formed by Same-Sex Couples

    • Aline Nogueira de Lira, Normanda Araujo de Morais
    Pages 137-156
  9. Methodological Strategies in Lesbian and Gay Parenting Research: A Systematic Review of Brazilian Scientific Literature

    • Bruno de Brito Silva, Icaro Bonamigo Gaspodini, Denise Falcke, Adriana Wagner
    Pages 157-176
  10. Building a Rainbow Family: Parenthood Aspirations of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender/Gender Diverse Individuals

    • Jorge Gato, Daniela Leal, Carolina Biasutti, Fiona Tasker, Anne Marie Fontaine
    Pages 193-213
  11. “I Want to Have Children Too”: Reproductive Motivations and Decisions in the LGBTQ+ Community

    • Giuliana Violeta Vásquez Varas, Laila Pires Ferreira Akerman, Juliane Callegaro Borsa
    Pages 215-232
  12. Justice System Professionals and Adoption by Same-Sex Couples

    • Mariana Silva Cecílio, Fabio Scorsolini-Comin
    Pages 233-250
  13. (Homo)Parenting: From the Adoption Process to the Child’s Arrival

    • Carolina Monteiro Biasutti, Célia Regina Rangel Nascimento
    Pages 251-272
  14. Child Development in Families with Gay and Lesbian Parents and Beliefs About Homosexuality

    • Elder Cerqueira-Santos, Jean Jesus Santos, Priscila Lawrenz
    Pages 293-309
  15. Back Matter

    Pages 311-317

About this book

This book analyzes how the increasing number of same-sex couples is changing the traditional concepts of family and parenthood, and how these changes affect the psychological studies of family, couple relationships and human development. The majority of chapters included in this contributed volume present results of research conducted with LGBTQ+ people in Brazil, a country where same-sex couples have been recognized by the national legislation since 2011, but is currently facing a conservative wave which threatens much of the victories gained by the LGBTQ+ movement in recent years. That’s why this book aims to provide both updated theoretical and methodological contributions as well as ethically and political engaged reflections to the field of psychological studies of LGBTQ+ parenting and couple relationships.

Chapters in this volume analyze different aspects of LGBTQ+ parenting and couple relationships, such as changes in the concept of family; the role of the family of origin in the coming out process of young adults; risk and protective factors in couple relationships between lesbians and gay men; vulnerabilities experienced by trans couples during the COVID-19 pandemic; how lesbians, gays, trans and non-binaries are approaching parenting and raising their families; factors that shape the reproductive decisions of LGBTQ+ individuals; adoption and coparenting in families composed of gay and lesbian couples, among other topics.

Parenting and Couple Relationships Among LGBTQ+ People in Diverse Contexts will be of interest to social, developmental and family psychologists and social workers researching and working with same-sex couples and families, and with the LGBTQ+ population in general.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Universidade de Fortaleza, Fortaleza, Brazil

    Normanda Araujo de Morais

  • Universidade de Sao Paulo, Ribeirao Preto, Brazil

    Fabio Scorsolini-Comin

  • Universidade Federal de Sergipe, Aracaju, Brazil

    Elder Cerqueira-Santos

About the editors

Normanda Araujo de Morais holds a PhD in Psychology from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, with a fellowship at the University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign, USA (2009).  She has held post-doctoral internships at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (2011). She is currently a Professor of the Graduate Program in Psychology at the University of Fortaleza and holds a Research Productivity grant of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development  (CNPq), Brazil.  She is an affiliate Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences - ABC (2020-2024). She was a member of the Board of Directors of the Brazilian Association of Developmental Psychology - ABPD (2013-2015; 2015-2017) and of the Board of Directors of the Brazilian Society of Psychology - SBP (2017-2019).

Fabio Scorsolini-Comin holds a PhD in Psychology from the University of São Paulo, Brazil, with a fellowship at the University of Porto, Portugal (2012).  He has held two post-doctoral internships at the University of São Paulo (2015 and 2017). He is currently a Senior Lecturer in Health Psychology at the University of São Paulo, in addition to being an Associate Professor of the Graduate Program in Psychiatric Nursing and the Interunit Doctoral Program in Nursing at the University of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto College of Nursing, PAHO/WHO Collaborating Centre for Nursing Research Development. He is an Associate Member of the Brazilian Society of Psychology  - SBP and holds a Research Productivity grant of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), Brazil.

Elder Cerqueira-Santos holds a PhD in Psychology from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, with a fellowship at The University of Nebraska, USA (2008).  In 2014 he got a post-doctoral internship in Sexuality at the University of Toronto, Canada. He has been a consultant for the World Childhood Foundation since 2003. He is currently a Professor of the Graduate Program in Psychology at the Federal University of Sergipe and holds a Research Productivity grant of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), Brazil. He was Director-Treasurer of the National Association for Research and Graduate Studies in Psychology - ANPEPP (2012-2014; 2014-2016). Regional Coordinator (Brazil) of the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development - ISSBD. Secretary Director of the Brazilian Association of Developmental Psychology – ABPD (2016-2018). Treasurer Director of the Brazilian Society of Psychology - SBP (2017-2019).


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