Publication details
Czech lesbian family study: negotiating family identity during transition to parenthood
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| Year of publication | 2012 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | The main research aim was to contribute to understanding of parenting experience of Czech lesbian women who have decided to become parents within a same-sex relationship in planned lesbian families. In particular, it was to identify and examine the specifics of the transition to parenthood with a special regard to its partial aspects of the decision-making process lining the couple’s path to parenthood. The qualitative study was designed as an exploratory-descriptive type of research. The sample consisted of 10 planned lesbian families represented by the parenting couple. The criterion for sample inclusion was lesbian identity of the respondents, fact that all women were engaged in a same-sex relationship and were raising in a shared household only children that were born within the context of the current relationship. All couples were subjected to a joint in-depth semi-structured interview followed by an individual interview. Consequently, a focus group was run with a part of the respondents. The acquired data were processed on the grounds of the principles of qualitative methodology and the analysis was supported by the qualitative data software package Atlas.ti. Descriptive processional model of transition to parenthood in lesbian couples is presented. Its individual components represent key moments and events that gradually „emerge“ with the transition to parenthood and that involve specific psychosocial tasks. |
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