MFT-6540

Goldberg, A. E., & Allen, K. R. (2022). “Failed” matches, child removals, and disrupted placements: Devastating and invisible losses during the family-building journey for LGBTQ adoptive parents. Journal of Family Nursing, 28(4), 368–380.
Goldberg and Allen discuss some challenges that LGBTQ+ people may experience when they are working to bring children into their homes through the adoption process. This article highlights how some LGBTQ+ persons build families through adoption or foster care.

Stone Fish, L. (2021). I have too many mothers. In R. Harvey, M. J. Murphy, J. J. Bigner, & J. L. Wetchler (Eds.). Handbook of LGBTQ-Affirmative Couple and Family Therapy (pp. 225-238). New York: Routledge.
Stone Fish presents a chapter in the Handbook of LGBTQ-Affirmative Couple and Family Therapy that explores the reactions of children whose parents identify as queer. This chapter presents ways that queer people bring in children and their impact on children.

Fantus, S., & Newman, P. A. (2022). The procreative identities of men in same‐sex relationships choosing surrogacy: A new theoretical understanding. Journal of Family Theory & Review, 14(2), 254–274. .
The authors present a picture of men in same-sex relationships and how they may bring children into their families via surrogacy. This article presents a perspective on surrogacy in queer communities and how therapists can better understand these experiences.