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van Gelderen, Loes; Gartrell, Nanette N.; Bos, Henny M. W.; Hermanns, Jo M. A. – Journal of Family Issues, 2013
The aim of this study was to investigate whether stigmatization was associated with psychological adjustment in adolescents from planned lesbian families and, if so, to examine whether individual and interpersonal promotive factors influenced this association. Seventy-eight adolescents (39 girls, 39 boys; mean age = 17.05 years) completed an…
Descriptors: Social Bias, Mental Health, Life Satisfaction, Homosexuality
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Collier, Kate L.; Bos, Henny M. W.; Sandfort, Theo G. M. – Journal of Adolescence, 2012
This study explored how contact with gay and lesbian persons affects adolescents' attitudes toward them, and whether this association is mediated or moderated by one's acceptance of gender non-conformity. We analyzed survey responses from 456 Dutch adolescents aged 12-15 who reported having no same-sex attractions. Data were collected in 2008 at 8…
Descriptors: Social Behavior, Adolescents, Homosexuality, Foreign Countries
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Bos, Henny M. W.; Van Balen, Frank; Van Den Boom, Dymphna C. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2004
Background: 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…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Homosexuality, Child Rearing