PARENTING AND ADOPTION
A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SEXUAL ORIENTATION AND PARENTAL PRACTICES
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.35919/rbsh.v30i2.294Keywords:
Homosexuality, Adoption, Parenting, Family relationsAbstract
Research indicate that same sex families are a configuration that show no negative differences in relation to child rearing when compared to heterosexual families. The goal of this study was to compare parental practices scores between gay/bisexual men, lesbian/bisexual women and heterosexual men and women that exercise parenting through adoption. Four groups (130 participants) with these configurations were part of this study and answered the IPP (25 gay/bisexual men, 24 lesbian/bisexual women, 17 heterosexual men and 65 heterosexual women). The results show no significant difference in parental practices in any of the four groups, validating once more that sexual orientation does not associate with parental practices. However, when rearranged by gender, the women’s group showed significant higher scores in the discipline and educational domains, presenting both a break and a maintenance on gender norms for women and men.