Experiences of identity, parenting, and family life in bisexual father families

在新的家庭形式的研究中，双性恋父母往往被忽视，因为很少有关于养育子女的研究注意到个别父母的性取向，而是提到关系的组成。这就意味着在对家庭生活的研究中，双性恋的父母通常被认为是异性恋，而在对同性父母的研究中，他们被认为是同性恋。在对女同性恋、男同性恋、双性恋和跨性别者（LGBT）父母的研究进行系统回顾时，Ross & Dobinson（2013）发现，422篇文章中只有7篇专门提到双性恋父母的经历，表明对这一主题的研究总体上缺乏。然而，64%的女同性恋，男同性恋和双性恋（LGB）父母是双性恋（Goldberg，Gartrell & Gates，2014），所以这个群体不能被视为微不足道的少数群体。拟议的博士研究将使用一种以身份为中心的方法来解决这一文献中双性恋父亲的具体不可见性，这种方法对于LGBTQ+家庭的奖学金来说是新颖的。在这样做的过程中，这项研究将提供一个基于证据的视角，对双性恋父亲家庭，反映了这一人群中的育儿经验的细微差别。

Bisexual parents are often overlooked in research on new family forms, as few studies of parenting take note of individualparents' sexual orientation, instead referring to relationship composition. This means that in studies of family life ingeneral, bisexual parents are assumed to be heterosexual, and in studies of same-sex parents, they are assumed to be lesbianor gay. In a systematic review of research studies on lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) parents, Ross & Dobinson(2013) found that only seven of 422 articles referred specifically to the experiences of bisexual parents, demonstrating theoverall lack of research on this topic. Yet sixty-four percent of lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) parents are bisexual(Goldberg, Gartrell, & Gates, 2014), so this population cannot be written off as an insignificant minority. The proposedPhD research will address the specific invisibility of bisexual fathers within this literature using an identity-focusedapproach that is novel to the scholarship on LGBTQ+ families. In so doing, this research will offer an evidence-basedperspective on bisexual father families that reflects the nuances of parenting experiences among this population.