Lesbian and gay persons often face dilemmas in becoming parents that heterosexual parents
rarely face. What are some of these unique problems, and how did lesbian/gay partners
resolve the differences?
What will be an ideal response?
Dalton and Bielby report that same-sex partners face multiple institutionalized scripts that
need to be negotiated to create new normative standards for the same-sex family. They have
to overcome traditional conceptions about their sexuality, have to negotiate the image of
themselves as mother/parent with family and community, have unique complexities in
becoming biological parents (acquiring sperm donation, negotiating with the fathers legal
obligations and fathering role), they lack some of the legal standing as parents that cross-sex
parents gain automatically, have to negotiate day care and educational centers that will tolerate
the same-sex union, and have to make deliberate efforts to introduce male/female sex-roles to
their children. In this process, they often have to revise the institutionalized scripts and
formulate new normative prescriptions for themselves and their family arrangement, which
can be a very complex process. In adoption processes, lesbian couples often have to redefine
the concept of mother to cope with community concerns. It appears that couples can succeed
in this process.
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