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Susan Golombok
Susan Golombok is professor of family research and director of the…
DiscoverLove and Truth: What really matters for parents and children in new family forms
Professor Susan Golombok: Love and Truth: What really matters for parents and children in new family forms.
Our understanding of what makes a family has changed dramatically in recent decades due to advances in reproductive technologies accompanied by changing social attitudes. But what has the impact been on children? This lecture will present a summary of research on families with lesbian mothers, gay fathers, single mothers by choice and transgender parents, as well as families created by egg donation, sperm donation, embryo donation and surrogacy. The findings show that these new family forms are just as likely to flourish as traditional families, and sometimes more so, although the children sometimes face prejudiced attitudes from others. It is concluded that warm and supportive relationships between parents and their children, openness about the children’s origins, and acceptance of their family in the wider social world matter more for children's psychological wellbeing than the number, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, or biological relatedness of their parents.
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We Are Family
An insight into new ways of becoming a parent by a world-leading expert.
Families come in all shapes and sizes: from the nuclear two-parent two-child unit to gay families, trans families, single parents, and babies conceived using donor eggs, sperm, or embryos, or carried by a surrogate.
An expert in family relationships, Professor Susan Golombok has seen it all. In We Are Family, she looks at how different parenting set-ups can thrive, and asks the crucial question: what really makes a family?
We Are Family
‘Fresh and exquisite narratives of intimacy; this is, at heart, a book about love.’ — Andrew Solomon, author of Far from the Tree
‘Golombok refutes fear and prejudice with evidence and facts. Bravo!’ — Peter Tatchell
Our understanding of what makes a family has undergone a revolution in the last few decades, from same-sex parenthood to surrogacy, donor conception, and IVF. But what has the impact been on children?
In We Are Family, Professor Susan Golombok visits lesbian mothers, gay fathers, single parents, donor conception parents, co-parents, trans parents, surrogates, and donors, and, more…
