TY  - BOOK
AU  - Golombok,Susan
TI  - Modern families: parents and children in new family forms 
SN  - 9781107295377 (ebook)
AV  - HQ755.8 .G654 2015
U1  - 306.874 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Parenting
KW  - Child development
KW  - Families
KW  - Mother and child
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015); Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; 2. Lesbian mother families; 3. 'Test-tube' baby families; 4. Donor conception families; 5. Surrogacy families; 6. Solo mother families; 7. Gay father families; 8. Conclusions
N2  - Modern Families brings together research on parenting and child development in new family forms including lesbian mother families, gay father families, families headed by single mothers by choice and families created by assisted reproductive technologies such as in vitro fertilisation (IVF), egg donation, sperm donation, embryo donation and surrogacy. This research is examined in the context of the issues and concerns that have been raised regarding these families. The findings not only contest popular myths and assumptions about the social and psychological consequences for children of being raised in new family forms but also challenge well-established theories of child development that are founded upon the supremacy of the traditional family. It is argued that the quality of family relationships and the wider social environment are more influential in children's psychological development than are the number, gender, sexual orientation, or biological relatedness of their parents or the method of their conception
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107295377
ER  -