While gay parenthood has existed from time immemorial, it has only emerged as a viable means of family building within the past 20 years. Celebrities like Melissa Etheridge, who had children with ex-partner Julie Cypher and sperm donor David Crosby, and Rosie O'Donnell, who adopted, have ushered gay parenting into the popular consciousness and…

Suggests picture books, children's novels, and children's nonfiction about coping with divorce and separation and living in a one parent family. (SJL)

This bibliography of 54 recent books and articles on various aspects of today's changing families was developed to accompany the "Families in Transition" issue of "Emphasis." It is divided into two major sections. The first section lists items that deal with changing family structures in a general way, or that touch upon a variety of subjects.…

Lists books and organizations to help parents, children, and anyone else concerned with the problems of separation and divorce. (LD)

Reviews issues involved in balancing work and family and some of the resources which may be most useful to family practitioners. Includes annotated bibliography of books, reports, newsletters, films, and videos. (ABL)

Listed in this publication are various resources relevant to the study of single-parent families. Provided are names and addresses of organizations that provide services specifically to single parents, divorced couples, and children of single-parent families; listings of professional and general publications; selected nonfiction bibliographies…

Little attention has been focused on the weekend or part-time fathers related to divorced one-parent families. Part-time fathers were interviewed. Selected findings are presented. The scant literature related to the topic is reviewed. (Author)

Discusses the emotional impact of divorce on children and adolescents and, after reviewing the literature and findings from a five-year longitudinal study, describes the implications of the spiraling divorce rate for practice, research, and social policy. (Author)

Demonstrates that levels of illegitimacy are related to costs of illegitimacy. Illegitimacy is strongly associated with the opportunity structure for women. When marriage is a relatively temporary guarantee of support, incentives to marital childbearing are less. This is supported by consistently positive association between marital and nonmarital…

This annotated bibliography includes a list of books on parenting which are available in professional libraries. Citations are grouped into four categories: books written for parents; books written for the professional educator; books dealing with special situations, such as divorce, death, and the single parent; and books on interaction in…

Lists 17 ERIC database references selected from 1983-84 issues of "Resources in Education" and "Current Index to Journals in Education," which indicate breadth of coverage on topic of one-parent family. Divorce, single fathers, working mothers, single-parent students, and day care are covered. Availability and purchasing…

This paper is an attempt to identify some of the variables affecting the degree to which the single-parent father functions without the aid of a wife. The purpose is to examine some of the variables within the context of role transition theory. Such an examination should be useful in providing the groundwork for both future research and…

There are difficulties confronting gay parents when they seek custody of their children in a divorce suit. Court decisions are running about 50-50 in favor of the gay parent. Homophobia, the fear of same-sex intimacy or relationships, is rather strong in our society. The scant research done on gay families shows no negative effects on the children…

This paper reviews some of the current research findings on fertility among adolescents which indicate that illegitimacy may be becoming increasingly concentrated in the teenage years, and considers the implications of this phenomenon for mothers, children and society. The relationship of the changing sexual activity of American teenagers, the…

Reviewed literature dealing with one-parent families. Found few studies in which children living in one-parent families were interviewed about their lives. Studied 40 children, aged 12-18 years, living in middle class, urban, separated or divorced one-parent families. Highlights responses of children to four open-ended questions. (Author)