The Gay Baby Boom: The Psychology of Gay Parenthood

By Suzanne M. Johnson, Elizabeth O’connor. 2002

137 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Demography, Safety Research, Social Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/5f9daa169ae575a10210548ad631c8ce990514f7

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Demography

In Safety Research

In Social Psychology

Citations in the corpus

To Be a Parent: Issues in Family Formation among Gay and Lesbian Adults (2010, background): “Some information has been collected on such decisions (e.g., Goldberg, 2006; Johnson & O’Connor, 2002), and about some of their ramifications (Patterson, 1998) among lesbian couples and their children, but much remains to be learned.”
Adaptation and Transformation: The Transition to Adoptive Parenthood for Gay Male Couples (2008, background): “In one study (Johnson & O’Connor, 2002), 85 percent of gay father families were formed through adoption.”
The Division of Labor in Lesbian, Gay, and Heterosexual New Adoptive Parents (2012, background): “Of note is that housework may be shared more equally than child care in lesbian new parents: Several studies have found no significant discrepancies in inseminating couples’ contributions to housework, only child care (Goldberg & Perry-Jenkins; Johnson & O’Connor, 2004).”
Gay Men: Negotiating Procreative, Father, and Family Identities (2007, result): “Consistent with other research on gay fathers (Johnson & Connor, 2002; Mallon, 2004), the gay fathers participating in our research were White and predominantly upper middle class.”
The division of labor and perceptions of parental roles: Lesbian couples across the transition to parenthood (2007, background): “Where differences do occur, biological mothers tend to spend more time in child care (Johnson & O’Connor, 2002; Patterson, 1995).”
Gay Men Who Become Fathers via Surrogacy: The Transition to Parenthood (2010, result): “The latter phenomenon has been variously termed the “gay-by boom” (Dunne, 2000), “lesbigay-by boom” (Bergstrom, 2006) and “gay baby boom” (Johnson & O’Connor, 2002).”
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Families (2010, background): “…biological mothers had stronger desires for children (Bos et al., 2004), provided more of the primary child-care (Dempsey, 2005; Dundas & Kaufman, 2000; Goldberg & PerryJenkins, 2007; Johnson & O’Connor, 2002), and enjoyed somewhat closer relationships with the children (Bos et al., 2007; Dempsey).”
Lesbian and Gay Youth's Aspirations for Marriage and Raising Children (2007, background): “Gay marriage (Meezan & Rauch, 2005) and the “gay baby boom” (Johnson & O’Connor, 2002) have been studied as the domains of LGB adults, not LGB youth.”