Intentional Families: Fictive Kin Ties Between Cross‐Gender, Different Sexual Orientation Friends

By A. Muraco. 2006

99 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Demography, Reproductive Medicine, Social Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/d2e20c400fd23f4de782f4f21ae23f6440fc6000

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In Demography

1. L. Baxter
2. Dawn O. Braithwaite
3. R. Blieszner

In Social Psychology

1. L. Baxter
2. Michele K. Lewis
3. Lourdes D. Follins Msw
4. Ja'Nina J. Walker
5. Dawn O. Braithwaite

Citations in the corpus

• Perspectives on Extended Family and Fictive Kin in the Later Years (2011, background): “More recently, descriptions of fictive kin have also appeared in the literature on gay and lesbian families (Muraco, 2006).”
• Constructing family: A typology of voluntary kin (2010, background): “…of interest in the study are most often referred to by scholars as fictive kin (e.g., Chatters, Taylor, & Jayakody, 1994; Ibsen & Klobus, 1972; Muraco, 2006), but they also are labeled as chosen kin (Johnson, 2000; Weston, 1991), self-ascribed kin (Galvin, 2006), urban tribes (Watters, 2003),…”
• Resilience in Black Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Individuals: A Critical Review of the Literature (2014, background): “Furthermore, the ability of Black LGBT individuals to find or create a community that supports their many identities may be imperative to their well-being and quality of life (Muraco, 2006).”