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Title: How Different are the Adult Children of Parents who have Same-sex Relationships? Findings from the New Family Structures Study

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2012

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Abstract: The New Family Structures Study (NFSS) is a social-science data-collection project that fielded a survey to a large, random sample of American young adults (ages 1839) whowere raised in different types of family arrangements. In this debut article of the NFSS, I compare how the young-adult children of a parent who has had a same-sex romantic relationship fare on 40 different social, emotional, and relational outcome variables when comparedwith six other family-of-origin types. The results reveal numerous, consistent differences, especially between the children of women who have had a lesbian relationshipand those with still-married (heterosexual) biological parents. The results are typically robust in multivariate contexts as well, suggesting far greater diversity in lesbian-parent household experiences than convenience-sample studies of lesbian families have revealed. The NFSS proves to be an illuminating, versatile dataset that can assist family scholars in understanding the long reach of family structure and transitions.

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Authors: Regnerus, Mark

Periodical (Full): Social science research

Issue: 4

Volume: 41

Pages: 752-770

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Family and Marriage

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