Donor insemination: Child development and family functioning in lesbian mother families
Donor insemination: Child development and family functioning in lesbian mother families
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DOI：
10.1093/humrep/12.6.1349
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发表时间：
1997-06-01
影响因子：
6.1
通讯作者：
Golombok, S
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作者：
Brewaeys, A;Ponjaert, I;Golombok, S
本文介绍了一项比较研究的结果，调查了在女同性恋母亲家庭中长大的孩子的家庭关系和情感和性别发展。采用标准化访谈、父母问卷调查、孩子心理测试等多种评估手段，对30个女同性恋母亲家庭进行人工授精（DI）生育的4-8岁孩子与38个异性恋家庭的人工授精孩子和30个异性恋家庭的自然受孕孩子进行比较。夫妻关系的质量和母子互动的质量在女同性恋母亲家庭和异性恋家庭之间没有差异。两组异性恋家庭中社会母亲与孩子的互动质量均优于父亲与孩子的互动质量。在所有家庭类型中，儿童自身对父母的感知是相似的；女同性恋家庭中的社会母亲被孩子视为与两种异性恋家庭中的父亲一样的“父母”。在情感/行为发展方面，在女同性恋母亲家庭中长大的男孩和女孩适应良好，其性别角色发展与在异性恋家庭中长大的孩子没有差异。这些结果表明，女同性恋母亲家庭的孩子和家庭发展与异性恋家庭相似。
Findings are presented of a comparative study investigating the family relationships and the emotional and gender development of children raised in lesbian mother families. A total of 30 lesbian mother families with 4-8 year old children created as a result of donor insemination (DI) were compared with 38 heterosexual families with a DI child and with 30 heterosexual families who had a naturally conceived child, a variety of assessment measures, including a standardized interview and questionnaires from the parents and psychological testing of the child were used to collect the data. The quality of the couples' relationships and the quality of the mother-child interaction did not differ between lesbian mother families and either of the heterosexual family groups. The quality of the interaction between the social mother and the child in lesbian families was superior to that between the father and the child in both groups of heterosexual families. Childrens' own perception of their parents was similar in all family types; the social mother in lesbian families was regarded by the child to be as much a 'parent' as the father in both types of heterosexual families. With regard to their emotional/behavioural development, boys and girls raised in lesbian mother families were well adjusted and their gender role development did not differ from that of children raised in heterosexual families. These results indicate that child and family development in lesbian mother families is similar to that of heterosexual families.