An interesting highlight and something I agree with completely is Australia needs more policy and focus in the health, education, child protection and foster care systems when it comes to same-sex parenting.
http://www.aifs.gov.au/cfca/pubs/papers/a145197/cfca18.pdf
Key findings:
"About 11% of Australian gay men and 33% of lesbians have children. Children may have been
conceived in the context of previous heterosexual relationships, or raised from birth by a co-parenting
gay or lesbian couple or single parent.
Overall, research to date considerably challenges the point of view that same-sex parented families
are harmful to children. Children in such families do as well emotionally, socially and educationally as
their peers from heterosexual couple families.
Some researchers have concluded there are benefits for children raised by lesbian couples in that they
experience higher quality parenting, sons display greater gender flexibility, and sons and daughter
display more open-mindedness towards sexual, gender and family diversity.
The possible effect of important socio-economic family factors, such as income and parental education,
were not always considered in the studies reviewed in this paper.
Although many Australian lesbian-parented families appear to be receiving good support from their
health care providers, there is evidence that more could be done to develop policies and practices
supportive of same-sex parented families in the Australian health, education, child protection and
foster care systems.
Additional key messages, relating to specific family structures and psychosocial outcomes for children
raised by lesbian and gay parents, are included throughout the paper."
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Copyright Adele Fisher 2014
Copyright Adele Fisher 2014
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