SOSC 1350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Parental Alienation, Lgbt Parenting, Community Organizing
12 Mar 2018
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Notes based on epstein, queer parenting in the new millennium: resisting normal: Epstein reflects on fifteen years of research, education, political and lgbtq activism, and community organizing related to queer parenting in canada. Pays attention to the complexity of the experience lesbian parents and their children had which might help us to avoid a one-size-fits-all approach to the whole enterprise. To acknowledge and celebrate the changes that have taken in the last 20 years in relation to queer parenting. Raise some questions about the current political context within which we are parenting, also the debate of same-sex marriage. Birth of daughter in 1992, high point in her life-->made her connected to the hundreds of queer parents. Challenges faced by queer parents: lost the sense of entitlement to have the children we came out. Disowned by families when they had their children. Gays and lesbians had their children taken away.
