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

在对新型家庭形式的研究中，双性恋父母经常被忽视，因为很少有关于养育子女的研究注意到父母个人的性取向，而不是关系构成。这意味着在一般的家庭生活研究中，双性恋父母被假定为异性恋，而在对同性父母的研究中，他们被假定为女同性恋或男同性恋。Ross & Dobinson（2013）对女同性恋、男同性恋、双性恋和跨性别（LGBT）父母的研究进行了系统回顾，发现422篇文章中只有7篇专门提到了双性恋父母的经历，这表明对这一主题的研究总体上是缺乏的。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），所以这一群体不能被视为微不足道的少数。拟议中的博士研究将使用一种以身份为中心的方法来解决双性恋父亲在这一文献中被忽视的问题，这对LGBTQ+家庭的学术研究来说是新颖的。这样一来，这项研究将为双性恋父亲家庭提供一个基于证据的视角，反映出这一人群中养育经历的细微差别。

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.