Division of Labor Among Lesbian and Heterosexual Parenting Couples: Correlates of Specialized Versus Shared Patterns

By C. Patterson, E. Sutfin, Megan Fulcher. 2004

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Men Want Equality, But Women Don't Expect It: Young Adults' Expectations for Participation in Household and Child Care Chores (2010, background): “…other hand, the men in our sample both ideally wanted and actually expected an egalitarian division of labor, despite the fact that these ideals are not reflected in the practices of married couples (e.g., Bartley et al., 2005; Cinamon & Rich, 2002; Kroska, 2004; Lee, 2005; Patterson et al., 2004).”
Counseling Psychology Research on Sexual (Orientation) Minority Issues: Conceptual and Methodological Challenges and Opportunities (2009, background): “For example, some studies have suggested that, relative to heterosexual couples, same-sex couples tend to report distributing financial, household, and childcare labor more equitably (e.g., Chan, Brooks, Raboy, & Patterson, 1998; Patterson, Sutfin, & Fulcher, 2004; Solomon, Rothblum, & Balsam, 200”
The Division of Labor in Lesbian, Gay, and Heterosexual New Adoptive Parents (2012, methodology): “On the basis of prior research and theorizing (Kurdek, 2007; Patterson et al., 2004), we expected that same-sex couples would share child-care and feminine tasks more equally than heterosexual couples and that lesbian couples would share the most equally.”
Individual Differences in Gender Development: Associations with Parental Sexual Orientation, Attitudes, and Division of Labor (2008, background): “Likewise, fathers reported being responsible for less childcare than lesbian non-genetic mothers (see Patterson et al. 2004 for statistical details).”
How Does the Gender of Parents Matter (2010, background): “Only two studies qualified for inclusion in Table 1 (Johnson & O’Connor, 2002; McPherson, 1993), and both found that gay male couples parented more equally and compatibly than heterosexual couples, although somewhat less equally than lesbians.”
Lesbian Mother Families and Gay Father Families in Italy: Family Functioning, Dyadic Satisfaction, and Child Well-Being (2015, background): “On the contrary, studies in which planned lesbian mother families are compared with heterosexual families have revealed no differences in child outcomes, such as social competencies (Patterson et al. 2004; Patterson 2006; Wainright and Patterson 2008), behavioral adjustment (Bos et al.”
Emergence of division of labour in halictine bees: contributions of social interactions and behavioural variance (2005, background): “…has been documented across a wide range of social taxa and in numerous contexts, including shrimps during colony defence (Duffy et al. 2002), rats during foraging (Grasmuck & Desor 2002), lions during cooperative hunting (Stander 1992) and human couples during parenting (Patterson et al. 2004).”