Barnlösa homosexuellas syn på familjebildning och föräldraskap
(2005)School of Social Work
- Abstract
- The purpose of this essay was to examine how childless homosexuals (men and women) were looking at family formation and parenthood. The essential questions were how the homosexuals felt about their own parenthood in the future and about different family constellations. We also wanted to examine how they experienced reactions from the society and what they thought about the current Swedish laws in force of adoption and insemination.
We have chosen to work with a qualitative method and interviewed nine childless homosexual men and women in the age between 21 - 39 years to get some answers about the questions above.
The main result from the interviews was that the homosexuals had the same thoughts like any other future parent but with a... (More) - The purpose of this essay was to examine how childless homosexuals (men and women) were looking at family formation and parenthood. The essential questions were how the homosexuals felt about their own parenthood in the future and about different family constellations. We also wanted to examine how they experienced reactions from the society and what they thought about the current Swedish laws in force of adoption and insemination.
We have chosen to work with a qualitative method and interviewed nine childless homosexual men and women in the age between 21 - 39 years to get some answers about the questions above.
The main result from the interviews was that the homosexuals had the same thoughts like any other future parent but with a more complicated engagement. Even though they some times felt a resistance in the society against homosexual parenthood it was not a thing that would stop them from getting children. (Less)
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- author
- Persson, Jenny and Zrinscak, Sandra
- supervisor
- organization
- year
- 2005
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- homosexuella, attityder, familjebildning, familjesociologi, föräldraskap, lagar, Sociology, Sociologi
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 1333099
- date added to LUP
- 2005-04-05 00:00:00
- date last changed
- 2005-04-05 00:00:00
@misc{1333099,
abstract = {{The purpose of this essay was to examine how childless homosexuals (men and women) were looking at family formation and parenthood. The essential questions were how the homosexuals felt about their own parenthood in the future and about different family constellations. We also wanted to examine how they experienced reactions from the society and what they thought about the current Swedish laws in force of adoption and insemination.
We have chosen to work with a qualitative method and interviewed nine childless homosexual men and women in the age between 21 - 39 years to get some answers about the questions above.
The main result from the interviews was that the homosexuals had the same thoughts like any other future parent but with a more complicated engagement. Even though they some times felt a resistance in the society against homosexual parenthood it was not a thing that would stop them from getting children.}},
author = {{Persson, Jenny and Zrinscak, Sandra}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Barnlösa homosexuellas syn på familjebildning och föräldraskap}},
year = {{2005}},
}