“There Is No Perfect School”: The Complexity of School Decision‐Making Among Lesbian and Gay Adoptive Parents

2018 ◽  
Vol 80 (3) ◽  
pp. 684-703 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abbie E. Goldberg ◽  
Katherine R. Allen ◽  
Kaitlin A. Black ◽  
Reihonna L. Frost ◽  
Melissa H. Manley
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Adoptive Parents ◽  
Lesbian And Gay

Adoption: Lesbian and Gay Adoptive Parents

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abbie E. Goldberg ◽  
April Moyer
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Adoptive Parents ◽  
Adoptive Parent ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Parent Child Relationship ◽  
Gay Parents ◽  
Lesbian And Gay ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
Adoptive Parenthood

Adoption by lesbian and gay parents is becomingly increasingly common. This entry presents an overview of the limited research that has focused on lesbian and gay adoptive parents. Specifically, this entry addresses the experience of adoptive parenthood for lesbian and gay parents, with emphasis on the decision-making process (that is, choosing adoption, choosing an agency, choosing an adoption type, and specifying child characteristics), the transition to adoptive parenthood, the psychological adjustment of the adoptive parents and their children, and the adoptive parent–child relationship. We end with recommendations for future research and implications for practitioners and policymakers.

Adoption

2020 ◽  
pp. 352-392
Author(s):  
Claire Fenton-Glynn
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Single Parent ◽  
Adoptive Parents ◽  
Best Interests ◽  
Intercountry Adoption ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Eligibility Criteria ◽  
Same Sex Couples ◽  
Recognition And Enforcement

This chapter considers the Court’s jurisprudence in relation to adoption. Starting with adoption by a step-parent, it examines the approach of the Court to dispensing with parental consent, as well as challenges to laws prohibiting adoption by same-sex couples. Next, the chapter turns to adoption in the context of child protection proceedings, examining the substantive and procedural obligations on states and the interpretation of the best interests of the child in this context. The chapter also considers intercountry adoption, including the recognition and enforcement of adoption orders, as well as the involvement of children in decision-making. Finally, the chapter examines eligibility criteria for adoptive parents, focusing particularly on the issues of single-parent adoption and adoption by homosexual individuals.

Socializing Children About Family Structure: Perspectives of Lesbian and Gay Adoptive Parents

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 235-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adeline Wyman Battalen ◽  
Rachel H. Farr ◽  
David M. Brodzinsky ◽  
Ruth G. McRoy
Keyword(s):  
Family Structure ◽  
Adoptive Parents ◽  
Lesbian And Gay

Lesbian and Gay Adoptive Parents and Their Children

2012 ◽  
pp. 39-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel H. Farr ◽  
Charlotte J. Patterson
Keyword(s):  
Adoptive Parents ◽  
Lesbian And Gay

Discarding optimality: Throwing out the baby with the bathwater?

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Simen ◽  
Fuat Balcı
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Perceptual Decision Making ◽  
Reward Rate ◽  
Perceptual Decision ◽  
Standard Observer ◽  
Rate Maximization ◽  
Reward Rate Maximization ◽  
Descriptive Standard ◽  
Observer Model

AbstractRahnev & Denison (R&D) argue against normative theories and in favor of a more descriptive “standard observer model” of perceptual decision making. We agree with the authors in many respects, but we argue that optimality (specifically, reward-rate maximization) has proved demonstrably useful as a hypothesis, contrary to the authors’ claims.

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