Child attachment security and utilization of parents as safe havens and secure bases were
compared in 33 surrogacy children with gay fathers and 37 donor-conceived children with …

Fathers' sensitivity and child attachment security and externalizing and internalizing
problems were investigated among families headed by two adoptive gay fathers. A sample …

The attachment security of children in 30 gay father families, 29 lesbian mother families and
38 heterosexual parent families was investigated using the Friends and Family Interview …

Findings are presented on a study of 40 gay father families created through surrogacy and a
comparison group of 55 lesbian mother families created through donor insemination with a …

Evidence is lacking about the factors that are pivotal in enhancing the exploration of
surrogacy origins in children of gay fathers during middle childhood. The present study …

Basic tenets of attachment theory were evaluated in a qualitative study of 15 lesbian couples
with internationally adopted children, focusing on parental perceptions of a primary mother …

While myths exist that call into question the parenting ability of gay and lesbian parents as
well as the impact of such parenting on children in their care, there is an ever increasing …

Data were collected on 154 adoptive families with gay/lesbian and straight adoptive parents
(154 parent respondents and 210 adolescent respondents). This study was principally …

Although there is a fairly large body of research on children's attachment to their parents,
less attention has been paid to the experience of and process by which parents, particularly …

Objective To examine how lesbian, gay, and heterosexual adoptive parents navigate
openness dynamics with children's birth family across a 5‐year period, when children are …