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Queer Families, Common Agendas - Gay People, Lesbians, and Family Values (Paperback)
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Queer Families, Common Agendas - Gay People, Lesbians, and Family Values (Paperback)
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Vital information on family services, custody, and access rights
for gay parents!Queer Families, Common Agendas: Gay People,
Lesbians, and Family Values examines the real life experience of
those affected by current laws and policies regarding homosexual
families. The book will help policy makers, lawyers, social
workers, and the general public better understand these families.
Here you will be able to compare the progress of policy in the U.S.
and Canada for gay and lesbian parents and their children and
explore relevant legal approaches in the two countries. In Queer
Families, Common Agendas: Gay People, Lesbians, and Family Values,
a range of strategies for advancing the rights of sexual minority
parents are considered for legal feasibility and political
viability. You will gain insight into the contradictions in
policies and practices that ultimately disadvantage children based
on their family origins, and you will discover alternative
approaches for improved services to homosexual families. Queer
Families, Common Agendas explores: family law and protection of
women-headed households legal definitions of motherhood and
fatherhood in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom
family and adoption idealogies concerning gay families and their
rights to adopt new ways to make social services responsive to
minority families the lesbian and gay "agenda" the value of family
and the family of values--as opposed to the worn-out phrase "family
values" Queer Families, Common Agendas serves as a primer to assist
you in understanding the legal struggles that lesbian and gay
families are facing today. You will explore concerns about family
law, protection of women-headed households, motherhood, fatherhood,
adoption and family ideology, and how to make social services
responsive to gay and lesbian families. This excellent reference
provides you with the necessary background and techniques to create
services that are responsive and effective with sexual minority
families.
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