HD FS 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Sperm Donation, Apache Hadoop

• School: PSU
• Department: Human Development and Family Studies
• Course: HD FS 250
• Professor: Anthony D' Augelli

Document Summary

Children living with a same-sex couple are often the biological offspring of one parent by: earlier marriage, relationship. Big change: more same-sex couples having their own children. Arrangement with known or unknown sperm donor. Same-sex marriage will increase planned same-sex families. 1/5 same-sex couples raising children in u. s. 1/10 same-sex couples raising children in canada. Differences among same-sex parents: families headed by same-sex parents are structurally different. Much more focus on lesbian and gay parents. Testing: children not studied directly, no observational studies, usually rely on parents" reports of children"s behavior. Most early studies compare: lesbian and gay parents from heterosexual marriages with heterosexual married families. Most focus on: young children, mothers . Few studies of donor-inseminated children (~5), adopted. Lesbian mothers and gay fathers are like other parents: any differences favor same-sex parents. No differences in: cognitive abilities, behavior, emotional development. Many gay and lesbian parents worry about: children being teased.