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separate from that of a same-sex partner.

D. Conclusion

In summary, there is no evidence to suggest that lesbians and gay men are unfit to be parents or that psychosocial development

among children of gay men or lesbians is compromised in any respect relative to that among offspring of heterosexual parents.

Not a single study has found children of gay or lesbian parents to be disadvantaged in any significant respect relative to children

of heterosexual parents. Indeed, the evidence to date suggests that home environments provided by gay and lesbian parents are

as likely as those provided by heterosexual parents to support and enable children’s psychosocial growth.

It should be acknowledged that research on lesbian and gay parents and their children is still very new and

relatively scarce. Less is known about children of gay fathers than about children of lesbian mothers. Little is known about

development of the offspring of gay or lesbian parents during adolescence or adulthood. Sources of heterogeneity have yet to

be systematically investigated. Longitudinal studies that follow lesbian and gay families over time are badly needed.

Acknowledgements

I wish to thank Clinton Anderson, Natalie Eldridge, Patricia Falk, Mary Henning-Stout, Larry Kurdek, April Martin, Bianca

Cody Murphy, Vera Paster, and Roy Scrivner for their helpful comments on an earlier draft of this manuscript.

II. ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

The citations in this annotated bibliography come from a number of sources: from the original APA publication Lesbian

Parents and Their Children, from a PsycLit search on gay and lesbian parenting from the years 1987-1993, and from

recommendations made by our expert reviewers. We recognize that this bibliography is not all inclusive. The literature on

lesbian and gay parenting is rapidly expanding, and we may have missed some resources. Furthermore, there are a number of

doctoral dissertations on gay and lesbian parenting. We have not included dissertations or some of the material that is written

directly for lesbian and gay parents themselves. While primarily drawing upon psychology, we did include some citations from

law, psychiatry, and social work publications.

The annotated bibliography is divided into four sections. The first section focuses on empirical psychological studies. The

second section contains book chapters and articles from the periodical literature. The third section contains books. And the

bibliography concludes with a section that lists additional resources and organizations.

This bibliography was compiled by Bianca Cody Murphy and Lourdes Rodríguez-Nogués with the assistance of Mary Ballou,

Edward J. Dunne, Susan Iasenza, Steven James, Linda Jones, Ena Vazquez Nuttall, Gary Ross Reynolds, and William

Sanchez.

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