Deborah M Merrill

When Your Gay or Lesbian Child Marries

A Guide for Parents

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

As more and more same-sex couples marry, their parents may need to learn new strategies for continuing healthy relationships with their children and their partners. This book offers a guide to understanding same-sex marriage and, through firsthand accounts, how natal family relationships change, yet can be loving and supportive.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781442254183
• ISBN-10: 1442254181
• Artikelnr.: 42808525

Autorenporträt

Deborah M. Merrill is professor of sociology at Clark University. She is the author of Mothers-in-Law and Daughters-in-Law: Understanding the Relationship and What Makes Them Friends or Foe and Caring for Elderly Parents: Juggling Work, Family, and Care Giving in Middle And Working Class Families. She is also the author of When Your Children Marry How Marriage Changes Relationships with Sons and Daughters.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. "Coming Out" 3. Relationships between Parents and Their
Gay and Lesbian Children 4. The Effect of Same-Sex Marriage on Parent and
Adult Child Relationships 5. Why Marry and the Division of Labor in the
Home 6. Gay and Lesbian Couples Raising Children 7. The Effect of Sexual
Orientation on the Couple's Marriage 8. Same-Sex Marriage and the Extended
Family 9. "Doing Family" and Advice to Families 10. Conclusion Appendix 1:
Methodology