45 research outputs found
“Two Parts of the Landscape of Family in America”: Maintaining Both Spousal and Domestic Partner Employee Benefits for Both Same-Sex and Different-Sex Couples
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Recognizing Partners but Not Parents / Recognizing Parents but Not Partners: Gay and Lesbian Family Law in Europe and the United States
Get PDFLesbian and Gay Parenting: The Last Thirty Years
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Resisting Don\u27t Ask, Don\u27t Tell in the Licensing of Lesbian and Gay Foster Parents: Why Openness Will Benefit Lesbian and Gay Youth
Get PDFFor the Sake of All Children: Opponents and Supporters of Same-Sex Marriage Both Miss the Mark
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Family Law and Gay and Lesbian Family Issues in the Twentieth Century
Get PDFOver these thirty years, lesbians and gay men have increasingly challenged conventional definitions of marriage and the family. In this brief article, we tell the story of gay people and family law in the United States across this period. We divide our discussion into two sections: issues regarding the recognition of the same-sex couple relationship and issues regarding gay men and lesbians as parents. These issues overlap, of course, but since family law discussions commonly treat adult-adult issues of all sorts separately from parent-child issues, we believe it convenient and helpful to do so as well
