Table of Contents

Table of Contents - 6 I Parenting in Planned Lesbian Families - Introduction - 8 II Lesbian families and family functioning: An overview - 12 III Planned lesbian families: Their desire and motivation to have children - 32 IV Experiences of parenthood, couple relationship, social support, and child rearing goals in planned lesbian families - 48 V Family characteristics, child rearing and child adjustment in planned lesbian families - 62 VI Minority stress, experience of parenthood, and child adjustment - 80 VII Discussion - 92 References - 98 Summary - 108 Curriculum Vitae - 111 List of publications - 112

About the Author

After graduating in Educational Sciences from Utrecht University, Henny Bos (1963) worked under the supervision of Theo Sandfort as a research assistant and junior researcher at the Department of Gay and Lesbian Studies at Utrecht University and the Rutger NIssO Group. The past four years, she was employed at the Department of Education of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Science of the University of Amsterdam, where she carried out her PhD research on parenting in lesbian families, under the supervision of Dymph van den Boom and Frank van Balen. The research was funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO).