Bos Henny M W, van Balen Frank, van Den Boom Dymphna C
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Department of Education, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2004 May;45(4):755-64. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.2004.00269.x.
The phenomenon of planned lesbian families (i.e., two-mother families in which the child was born to the lesbian relationship) is relatively new and very little research has been conducted among those families. The overall aim of this research was to examine whether planned lesbian mother families differ from heterosexual families on factors that are assumed to influence the parent-child relationship, such as experience of parenthood, child-rearing goals, couple relationship, and social support.
A hundred lesbian two-mother families were compared with 100 heterosexual families having naturally conceived children. A variety of measures were used to collect the data, including questionnaires and a diary of activities kept by the parents.
Lesbian parents are no less competent or more burdened than heterosexual parents. Both lesbian and heterosexual parents consider it important to develop qualities of independence in their child. However, 'conformity' as a child-rearing goal is less important to lesbian mothers. Furthermore, lesbian social mothers feel more often than fathers in heterosexual families that they must justify the quality of their parenthood.
There are few differences between lesbian couples and heterosexual couples, except that lesbian mothers appear less attuned to traditional child-rearing goals and lesbian social mothers appear more to defend their position as mother.
有计划的女同性恋家庭（即孩子由女同性恋伴侣生育的双母家庭）这一现象相对较新，针对这些家庭开展的研究很少。本研究的总体目标是，考察有计划的女同性恋母亲家庭在假定会影响亲子关系的因素上，是否与异性恋家庭存在差异，这些因素包括为人父母的经历、育儿目标、伴侣关系和社会支持。
将100个女同性恋双母家庭与100个有自然生育孩子的异性恋家庭进行比较。采用了多种测量方法来收集数据，包括问卷调查以及父母记录的活动日记。
女同性恋父母在能力上并不比异性恋父母差，负担也不比他们重。女同性恋父母和异性恋父母都认为培养孩子的独立品质很重要。然而，“顺从”作为一个育儿目标，对女同性恋母亲来说不那么重要。此外，与异性恋家庭中的父亲相比，女同性恋母亲更常觉得自己必须为自己的育儿质量辩解。
女同性恋伴侣和异性恋伴侣之间几乎没有差异，只是女同性恋母亲似乎对传统育儿目标的认同度较低，而女同性恋母亲似乎更需要捍卫自己作为母亲的地位。
