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>> 233 Adoption agencies, 65–76 negative experiences with, 66–72 positive experiences with, 72–76 recommendations for how to be more gay-friendly, 198 Attitudes about homosexuality, changes in, 4, 7–8, 27–28, 30, 35 Augoustinos, Martha, 141, 180 Berkowitz, Dana, 8, 28, 29, 42, 59, 169, 189, 190 Brickell, Chris, 169, 170 Buchanan, Pat, 6 Carrington, Christopher, 101, 102, 125, 154, 163, 166 Clarkson, Jay, 176 Closeting during the adoption process, 82–84 gay men’s family members’ own closeting , 140–141 Coltrane, Scott, 9, 27, 97, 99, 101, 107, 119, 120 “Coming out,” 28–33, 149 family members’ own coming out, 150–151 increased outness at church upon becoming a parent, 175–176 increased outness at work upon becoming a parent, 174–175 outness as geographically dependent, 177–178 parents’ reactions to men’s coming out, 133 Crabb, Shona, 141, 180 Day care attitudes toward and use of, 95, 101–102, 103–104, 108, 112 Decision-making about timing of parenthood, 49–58 about type of adoption, 26, 49–58 who will stay home with the child, 97–100 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), 7 Dorow, Sara, 49, 58, 141, 185 Doucet, Andrea, 56, 70, 107, 112, 113, 116, 197 Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute, 5 Ewick, Patricia, 68, 85, 93 Families of choice, 154 Family Research Council, 8 Female role models, presumed importance of, 53–54, 70–72, 138 Gay parent support groups, 74, 163, 195 Geographic location geographic privilege, 13, 76, 89, 94, 169, 173, 182, 184, 195 of participants, 14, 20–12 Gianino, Mark, 27, 29, 34, 72, 97 Goffman, Erving, 170, 172, 178 Hicks, Stephen, 27, 56, 65, 70, 71 HIV, 6–7 Housework, division of, 125–127 Human Rights Campaign, 14, 85 International adoption, 57–58, 82 assumptions about, 185 Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children (ICPC), 217 Laws/legal inequities laws preventing same-sex couples from adopting abroad, 54, 57 index 234 << index marriage, attitudes of the men toward, 87–92, 195 state laws, adoption agencies’ knowledge of, 69–70 state laws preventing same-sex couples from co-adopting, 63–65, 81–87 Lesbian baby boom, 28 Lewin, Ellen, 16, 78, 144, 146, 149, 159, 160, 162, 174 Mallon, Gary, 27, 29, 78, 97, 117, 134, 160, 164, 175, 180, 216 Masculinity, dominant notions of, 11–12, 16, 106–107, 114, 118, 119, 120, 121, 126–127, 130, 197 Media depictions of gay parenting, 3, 4 Miller, Neil, 6, 7 Oswald, Ramona Faith, 10, 11, 13, 27, 34, 41, 70, 76, 89, 92, 135, 137, 138, 149, 150, 153, 154, 162, 165, 169, 175 Parental roles, 96–97, 115, 122–124, 126 “Passing” (e.g., as heterosexual), 167, 170–192, 178–181 Private domestic open adoption, 49–54 and birth parents, 76–81 Public domestic adoption, 55–57 Qualitative analysis, 18–19 focused coding, 18 thematic analysis, 18 transcription procedures, 205–206 Queer theory, 10–13 Religion religious family members, 137–138, 150, 152–153 religiously-oriented adoption agencies, 66 Ryan, Maura, 42, 169, 189, 190 Seidman, Steven, 7, 35, 36, 166 Social class economic privilege, 13, 39–40, 56–57, 61, 79–80, 86, 94, 98, 102, 195 Social constructionism, 10–13 Stacey, Judith, 8, 10, 11, 27, 30, 35, 59, 138, 180, 201 Sullivan, Maureen, 96, 133, 145, 150, 151 Surrogacy, 9–10, 41–48, 50–51 Transracial adoption, 58, 78, 167–168 debates about, 186 family members’ attitudes about/resistance to, 141–142, 147 increased “outness” due to adopting transracially, 185–191 racial preferences for children, 58 Weeks, Jeffrey, 38, 133, 195 Weston, Kath, 29, 60, 133, 154 Wolff, Jana, 192 Work commitment to, decreased, 116–120 commitment to, increased, 121 difficulties prioritizing, 105–106 ...

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