Английская Википедия:Gay Men Choosing Parenthood
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox book Gay Men Choosing Parenthood is a 2004 book about gay parenting by the social work scholar Gerald P. Mallon. It received largely positive reviews.
Summary
Between 2000 and 2002, Mallon interviewed twenty gay men who had become fathers in the 1980s through fostering, adopting, or assuming responsibility for a relative's child.Шаблон:Sfn The book begins with a survey of the literature on gay male parenting.Шаблон:Sfn Mallon describes his subjects' motivations for having children;Шаблон:Sfn their experiences with the kinship care, foster care, and adoption processes;Шаблон:Sfn their approaches to parenting and family life;Шаблон:Sfn and the attitudes of their communities.Шаблон:Sfn He reflects upon the social and political dimensions of gay fatherhood.Шаблон:Sfn In an appendix, he details the process of conducting and analysing the interviews.Шаблон:Sfn
Background and publication history
Gerald P. Mallon is an American social work scholar. As of 2004 he was a member of the faculty at Hunter College.Шаблон:Sfn Gay Men Choosing Parenthood was first published in 2004 by Columbia University Press.Шаблон:Sfn
Reception
Gay Men Choosing Parenthood received positive reviews from Regina Marler in The Advocate,Шаблон:Sfn Debra Moore in Library Journal,Шаблон:Sfn Jim Nawrocki in the Bay Area Reporter,Шаблон:Sfn and Publishers Weekly.Шаблон:Sfn It received a mixed review from Jonathan Scourfield in The British Journal of Social Work.Шаблон:Sfn
Marler described the book as "part academic study, part celebration of queer pioneers". She wrote that actual and prospective gay fathers would find it inspirational.Шаблон:Sfn Moore reviewed Gay Men Choosing Parenthood alongside Jonathan Rauch's Gay Marriage: Why It Is Good for Gays, Good for Straights, and Good for America. She characterised Mallon's book as "much more academic" than Rauch's, and recommended it to academic libraries.Шаблон:Sfn Nawrocki reviewed the book alongside Abigail Garner's Families Like Mine: Children of Gay Parents Tell It Like It Is. He praised Mallon's work as rigorous and well-researched. He appreciated that Mallon was supportive of gay parenting.Шаблон:Sfn The Publishers Weekly reviewer commented that Mallon had a "cogent, non-technical" writing style. The reviewer recommended the book to psychologists, child care workers, and policy makers.Шаблон:Sfn Scourfield wrote that Mallon's accessible style would hold greater appeal for social work students than for academic researchers. He suggested that Mallon should have contrasted his subjects' experiences with those of heterosexual fathers.Шаблон:Sfn
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