Dr. Donna Futterman, associate professor of pediatrics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and director of the adolescent AIDS program at Montefiore Medical Center, answers a parent’s questions about their child who is seeking to have sex reassignment surgery.
Social attitudes and practices toward gays and lesbians are changing, while the willingness of agencies to accept them as parents means a growing number of children who need homes are moving into permanent families.
A growing body of scientific literature demonstrates that children who grow up with 1 or 2 gay and/or lesbian parents fare as well in emotional, cognitive, social, and sexual functioning as do children whose parents are heterosexual.
The Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute released this Policy Perspective brief in March 2006 for the purpose of providing a research-based context for the ongoing debate in the United States over the adoption of children by gays and lesbians.
An analysis examining the effects of marriage, civil union, and domestic partnership statutes and amendments on the legal, financial, and psychosocial health and well-being of children whose parents are gay or lesbian.