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The Lesbian Childbearing Couple: A Case Report
Author(s) -
Tash Donna T.,
Kenney Janet W.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
birth
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.233
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1523-536X
pISSN - 0730-7659
DOI - 10.1111/j.1523-536x.1993.tb00177.x
Subject(s) - lesbian , psychosocial , psychology , health care , developmental psychology , social psychology , psychiatry , political science , psychoanalysis , law
Increasing numbers of lesbians are choosing to bear children. Inadequate information about these women's childbearing concerns, together with discrimination and insensitivity to their needs, places these couples at risk for receiving less than optimal health care. Lesbians who desire children are faced with numerous psychosocial problems that should be addressed by open and sensitive caregivers. Providing care to a lesbian couple demonstrated the ways in which their needs were similar to and different from those of heterosexual couples.