'A daddy is the same as a mummy': Swedish children in lesbian households talk about fathers and donors. (February 2014)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- 'A daddy is the same as a mummy': Swedish children in lesbian households talk about fathers and donors. (February 2014)
- Main Title:
- 'A daddy is the same as a mummy': Swedish children in lesbian households talk about fathers and donors
- Authors:
- Malmquist, Anna
Möllerstrand, Anna
Wikström, Maria
Zetterqvist Nelson, Karin - Abstract:
- The present article discusses how 12 children (five to eight years) in planned lesbian families talk about families, parents and specifically 'daddies' as such and not having a father themselves. Findings from child interviews demonstrate that the children described daddies as 'the same' as mummies, i.e. as having the same functions. This contrasts with previous research showing how children of heterosexuals often describe mothers and fathers as different. The children varied in terms of how they labelled donors. Some children adopted the denomination 'daddy', drawing on a paternity discourse, while others simply referred to him as 'a man'.
- Is Part Of:
- Childhood. Volume 21:Number 1(2014:Feb.)
- Journal:
- Childhood
- Issue:
- Volume 21:Number 1(2014:Feb.)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 21, Issue 1 (2014)
- Year:
- 2014
- Volume:
- 21
- Issue:
- 1
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2014-0021-0001-0000
- Page Start:
- 119
- Page End:
- 133
- Publication Date:
- 2014-02
- Subjects:
- Child interviews -- conception -- father -- lesbian family -- sperm donor
Children -- Periodicals
Child development -- Periodicals
Children -- Research -- Periodicals
305.23 - Journal URLs:
- http://chd.sagepub.com/ ↗
http://www.uk.sagepub.com/home.nav ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1177/0907568213484342 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0907-5682
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