What is it about?
Gay men using surrogacy to have a child is a controversial issue for both developmental psychologists and policy-makers. This paper is one of the first to investigate the effect of gay parenting, surrogacy and stigmatization on the adjustment of children born through surrogacy during preschool and primary school years.
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Why is it important?
In light of the positive outcomes, our paper shows that it would be unrealistic to consider children born to gay fathers through surrogacy at risk of developing psychological problems. By the same token, it suggests that is empirically unfounded for policy-makers to ban intended gay men from accessing fertility treatments and to deny gay father families the same civil rights and social benefits granted to heterosexual parent families.
Perspectives
I hope this article will provide empirical evidence to the debate on the joint effect of parents' non-heterosexual orientarion and their use of assisted reproduction to conceive on child adjustment.
Nicola Carone
Universita degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza
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This page is a summary of: Italian gay father families formed by surrogacy: Parenting, stigmatization, and children’s psychological adjustment., Developmental Psychology, October 2018, American Psychological Association (APA),
DOI: 10.1037/dev0000571.
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