Research Shows Gay Dads are Over-Achievers
My afternoon crack-up, this couldn’t have come at a more perfect time.
I’m sitting here, contemplating quitting my full time job, working on this site full time and making myself more available to my family and my pup.
Proud Parenting today reports that a study of gay male couples are more likely than heterosexual fathers to scale back their careers in order to care for their children:
A study published in the Journal of GLBT Family Studies has collected the experiences of gay male partners who have become fathers through surrogacy. The study shows that gay male couples are “more likely than heterosexual fathers to scale back their careers in order to care for their children. Also, these fathers report that their self-esteem and their closeness with their extended families increases after becoming parents.”
The four psychology researchers who conducted the study, Kim Bergman of Growing Generations in Los Angeles (a surrogacy agency), Ritchie J. Rubio, Robert-Jay Green, and Elena Padrón of the Rockway Institute at the California School of Professional Psychology, Alliant International University, collected information from one man in 40 couples and focused on four aspects of the fathers’ experience as they became parents: 1) work and career changes, 2) lifestyle issues, 3) couple, family and friendship experiences, and 4) self-esteem and self-care.
In most ways, the gay fathers reported life changes that were very similar to those reported by heterosexual couples. The couples reported “closer relations with co-workers, a transition away from single friends toward other couples (straight and gay) with children, and less time for sleep, exercise, and hobbies.”
The study goes on to cite that the parents negotiated their careers downward in favor of childcare, stronger relations with co-workers and a transition away from their single friends.
Jeez, it’s like they have a spy-cam in my house and are listening in to my life. The only challenge I have for them is this: their findings don’t apply to just fathers who become parents through surrogacy.
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