Whose family fits? Categorization and evaluation of same-sex and cross-race-parent families

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
David R. Kille ◽  
Crystal T. Tse

As family structures diversify, attitudes towards “nontraditional” families (e.g., same-sex-parent and cross-race families) appear to be becoming more favorable. Despite more favorable attitudes, we propose that explicitly and implicitly people view nontraditional families as less family-like than traditional (i.e., heterosexual, same-race) families. We also propose that people will hold the behavior of nontraditional (vs. traditional) families to higher standards. In Study 1, participants explicitly rated nontraditional (vs. traditional) family photos as less family-like and as less loving. In Study 2, using a reaction-time measure, participants took longer to correctly categorize nontraditional (vs. traditional) families into the family category, suggesting that at an implicit level people have greater difficulty recognizing nontraditional families as “family.” In Studies 3 and 4, ambiguous (i.e., positive and negative) behavior licensed more harsh evaluations of a nontraditional family—but did not affect evaluations of a traditional family—relative to learning only positive family behavior. Despite survey data that suggest that people’s views of nontraditional families are becoming more favorable, our evidence indicates that people nonetheless harbor prejudice against certain family structures. Beyond documenting two biases against nontraditional families, this work highlights the need for prejudice researchers to examine meaningful levels of social identity, such as family units, that are intermediate between individuals and broad social classes.

2021 ◽  
pp. 331-354
Author(s):  
Lambrianos Nikiforidis

This chapter examines paternal relationships with sons and daughters. Identity drives investment (and parental investment in particular), because people invest in that which aligns with their identity. And biological sex drives identity. These two ideas combined imply that a parent-offspring match in biological sex can influence parental favoritism in a systematic manner, an idea supported by recent empirical studies. This parental bias of concordant-sex favoritism can have broad implications, outside the context of the traditional family structure. In single parent or same-sex parent households, the consequences of this bias can be even stronger, because there would not be an opposite-direction bias from the other parent to even things out. This favoritism could have even broader ramifications, entirely outside the context of the family. On the one hand, whenever social norms dictate that men should control a family’s financial decisions, then sons may systematically receive more resources than daughters. This asymmetry in investment would then result in ever-increasing advantages that persist over time. On the other hand, if women are a family’s primary shoppers, this can manifest in subtle but chronic favoritism for daughters.


2008 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 300
Author(s):  
Iana Bezerra Lima

ABSTRACTDescriptive study, update, aiming to identify the family social changes, the family and its life cycle, rebuilding the family, in your new life cycle to identify the importance of family therapy, this process of re-marriage. This is an issue of timeliness, increasingly frequent, though little discussed in the academic world. In the traditional family, where the couple and children living and paternalism commands, is no longer the only model of relations between people. With this process of change biopsychosocial, economic, the difficulties faced by families have become increasingly constant and conflicting. The family groups disrupted and restructured created new family structures where these new relationships and new roles are more complex than in the traditional family model. The difficulties encountered by families restructured are different, if the assumption that there is a link parent/son before the marriage. In the first marriage, the couple goes through the process of adaptation and creates a bond before dealing with their children, which does not occur in the family rebuilt. Moreover, previous marital experiences can influence poorly resolved in this new reconstruction marriage. Descriptors: family; marriage; divorce; family restructured.RESUMOEstudo descritivo, de atualização, com o objetivo de identificar as mudanças sociais da família, da família e do seu ciclo vital, reconstruindo a família, no seu novo ciclo de vida para identificar a importância da terapia familiar, neste processo de re-casamento. Trata-se de uma temática da contemporaneidade, cada vez mais freqüente, embora pouco discutido no mundo acadêmico. Na família tradicional, na qual o casal e filhos vivem e o paternalismo comanda, deixou de ser o único modelo de inter-relações. Com esse processo de mudança biopsicossocial, econômico, as dificuldades enfrentadas pelas famílias também se tornaram cada vez mais constantes e conflituosas. Os núcleos familiares desfeitos e refeitos criaram novas estruturas familiares onde estão presentes novos relacionamentos e os novos papéis mais complexos do que no modelo de família tradicional. As dificuldades encontradas pelas famílias reconstruídas são diferentes, se partimos do princípio que existe um vínculo progenitor/filho que antecede o vínculo conjugal. No primeiro casamento, o casal passa pela fase de adaptação e cria um vínculo antes de lidar com os filhos, o que não ocorre na família reconstruída. Além disso, experiências conjugais anteriores mal resolvidas podem influenciar nesta nova reconstrução conjugal. Descritores: família; casamento; divórcio; família reconstruída.RESUMENEstudio descriptivo, de atualización, con el objetivo de identificar los cambios sociales de la familia, de la familia y su ciclo de vida, de la reconstrucción de la familia, en su nuevo ciclo de vida para identificar la importancia de la terapia familiar, este proceso de volver a contraer matrimonio. Se trata de una cuestión de oportunidad, cada vez más frecuentes, aunque poco debatido en el mundo académico. En la familia tradicional, donde la pareja y los niños que viven y el paternalismo comandos, ya no es el único modelo de las relaciones entre las personas. Con este proceso de cambio biopsicosocial, económicas, las dificultades que enfrentan las familias se han convertido en constante y cada vez más conflictiva. Los grupos familiares perturbadas y reestructurado creado nuevas estructuras familiares que son estas nuevas relaciones y nuevas funciones más complejas que en el modelo de familia tradicional. Las dificultades encontradas por las familias reestructuradas son hijo antes del-diferentes, si la hipótesis de que existe un vínculo padre/hijo. En el primer matrimonio, la pareja pasa por el proceso de adaptación y crea un bono antes de hacer frente a sus hijos, lo que no ocurre en la familia reconstruida. Por otra parte, las experiencias matrimoniales anteriores pueden influir en mal resueltas en esta nueva reconstrucción del matrimonio. Descriptores: familia; matrimonio; divorcio; familia reestructurada.


Author(s):  
Laura Heins

This chapter examines the domestic melodrama and argues that it was used by the Nazis in a genre-contradictory manner to effect a departure from the nuclear family, in accordance with the antibourgeois antipathies of the regime's leadership. It contends that Nazi films, far from universally reinforcing traditional family structures, actually profit from an undermining of sexual taboos—the ultimate goal being an increased level of efficiency of production and reproduction. Seemingly prohibited desires actually formed the core of Nazi film melodramas; just as fascist Germany's “leading man” found the family largely unattractive, so did the imaginary of its cinema. Filmmakers in the Third Reich preferred to offer images of the dissolution of the family rather than images of harmonious familial units, and the domestic melodrama in particular reveals the highly conflicted attitude of Nazi ideology and policy regarding bourgeois morality, marriage, and motherhood.


2002 ◽  
Vol 96 (3) ◽  
pp. 622-623
Author(s):  
Julie Novkov

Mary Lyndon Shanley's Making Babies, Making Families bravely wades into the difficult ethical questions of accommodating new reproductive technologies and diverse family arrangements within the framework of existing and possible liberal legal principles. The book grapples with definitions of parenthood and parental rights in the contexts of adoption, unwed fatherhood, gamete transfer, surrogate motherhood, and multiple parenting within the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community. Shanley mines these situations in order to derive some workable ethical and legal guidelines for the state's exercise of its regulatory capacities with respect to families. In doing so, she reveals the tensions and possibilities inherent in the state's role in defining families at a moment when many perceive traditional family structures as collapsing, for better or for worse.


Author(s):  
Jue WANG

LANGUAGE NOTE | Document text in Chinese; abstract in English only.Mark Cherry’s critical reflection on same-sex marriage is based on a general discussion of the culture war between the traditional view of the family and the liberal view. He discloses three kinds of social and moral risks in the cultural transformation from the traditional family to the post-modern family, and casts doubt on the goal of the legalization of same-sex marriage in contemporary society.DOWNLOAD HISTORY | This article has been downloaded 91 times in Digital Commons before migrating into this platform.


2012 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 501-522 ◽  
Author(s):  
Loveday Hodson

This paper examines the European Court’s of Human Rights approach towards lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and transgender families and points to the absence of a child-centred approach in its judgments. While adult same-sex relationships are increasingly gaining recognition under the Convention and national laws, in matters concerning children the Court prefers a heteronormative outlook that, it is suggested, attaches special significance to the symbolic innocence of the child. Consequently, the Court’s case-law does not adequately reflect the reality of the increasing numbers of children raised in LGBT families. The consequences of this blind-spot are considerable: it endorses the patchwork of uneven protection for children in LGBT families under national laws. This paper points towards a child-centred approach that would broaden the Court’s understanding of family life and more accurately reflect the family lives of children raised in non-traditional families.


2018 ◽  
Vol 74 ◽  
pp. 10019
Author(s):  
Husni Vici Handalusia ◽  
Nuryakin Chaikal ◽  
Massie Natanael Waraney Gerald

While there have been numerous studies exploring the determinants of divorce in social science, economic studies on such marriage dissolution are scarce. Our study aims to examine the cause of divorce in Indonesia, exploring the socio-economic and demographic determinants including risk preference as to why couples choose whether to divorce or stay married. This study utilizes the data on married men and women from Indonesian Family Life Survey 2007 and 2014. In relation to husband-wife working composition, we find a very specific condition leading to marriage dissolution: when the wife is the only working, the main source of income of the family. The result indicates that there is a clash between the traditional family structures, especially a man as the househusband and the demographic change in the labor market for the sustainability of marriage. Furthermore, variables such as age, whether the marriage is the first marriage or not, and religiosity show considerable predictive validities.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 321-340 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy S. Rich ◽  
Andi Dahmer ◽  
Isabel Eliassen

What explains Taiwan’s vacillating support for same-sex marriage? Despite earlier favourable public opinion and a Constitutional Court decision in 2017 in favour of legalisation, anti-lgbt referendums in 2018 found overwhelming support. We argue that the framing of same-sex marriage as undermining traditional family structures allowed opponents to shift the national discussion on legalisation. Our results suggest that supporters and the Tsai administration may have overestimated the extent to which opinions on legalisation were firm.


2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
David R. Kille ◽  
Crystal T. Tse ◽  
Steve J. Spencer

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