Unscripted motherhood: Lesbian mothers negotiating incompletely institutionalized family relationships

By Amy L. Hequembourg. 2004

94 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Demography, Reproductive Medicine, Social Psychology

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In Demography

1. Daniella Potter
2. Timothy J. Biblarz
3. Evren Savcı
4. Victor Groza
5. Suzanne Brown
6. Scott D. Ryan
7. S. Smalling

In Reproductive Medicine

1. Daniella Potter
2. Timothy J. Biblarz
3. Evren Savcı
4. Victor Groza
5. Suzanne Brown
6. Scott D. Ryan
7. S. Smalling

In Social Psychology

1. Daniella Potter
2. Timothy J. Biblarz
3. Evren Savcı
4. Victor Groza
5. Suzanne Brown
6. Scott D. Ryan
7. S. Smalling

Citations in the corpus

• The division of labor and perceptions of parental roles: Lesbian couples across the transition to parenthood (2007, unknown): “Similar to the challenges facing stepfamilies documented by Cherlin (1978) during the 1970s, families headed by gay and lesbian parents are also not ‘institutionalized’ in our society and thus face unique issues (Hequembourg, 2004).”
• Intentional Families: Fictive Kin Ties Between Cross‐Gender, Different Sexual Orientation Friends (2006, unknown): “…reportedly are most resilient when lesbian mothers sustain a sense of family and symbolically redefine situations to bolster their family networks (Hequembourg, 2004; Oswald, 2002); perhaps the lesbian participants seek out a resilient and flexible rather than a fixed intentional family bond with…”
• Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Families (2010, methodology): “Research showed that especially White, middle-class, coparent DI couples pursued having the social mother legally adopt the children in the service of offsetting her nonbiological relatedness and reducing the salience of biology to others, such as the nonbiological grandparents (Hequembourg, 2004).”
• The Experiences of Gay Men and Lesbians in Becoming and Being Adoptive Parents (2009, methodology): “Hequembourg (2004) used the concept of “incompletely institutionalized family relationships” in her description of the experiences of lesbian mothers.”
• Same‐Sex Parent Families and Children's Academic Achievement (2012, background): “Hequembourg (2004) interviewed 40 lesbian mothers and concluded that a core struggle faced by these parents was ‘‘integrating lesbian stepmothers into family relationships’’ (p. 743), because of disagreements related to parenting styles, authority roles, and attachment with the children.”