{"id":325,"date":"2017-12-03T20:53:51","date_gmt":"2017-12-03T20:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/?p=325"},"modified":"2025-08-09T22:13:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T22:13:05","slug":"makenzie-mclaughlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/?p=325","title":{"rendered":"Makenzie McLaughlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Same-sex Couples Adopting and Raising Children<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In American society, many individuals perceive two heterosexual parents as the ideal family type. Same-sex couples may face more setbacks than heterosexual couples in attempting to adopt and raise children, since they may not be perceived as the ideal parents. Same-sex couples who want to adopt may need to provide evidence that they are as qualified to be good parents as are heterosexual couples. Researchers have found, however, that same-sex couples who adopt may actually have a positive impact on their children, themselves, and the community in which they reside. This presentation reviews four recurring research themes regarding same-sex couples who adopt children. First, same-sex couples experience similar stress to heterosexual couples during pre- and post-adoption. Second, the community in which the same-sex couples reside may perceive the couples positively, neutrally, or negatively. Third, males and females, in general, may perceive same-sex couples differently than heterosexual couples; males may more often perceive same-sex couple adoption in a negative light than do females. Fourth, some individuals may believe that children of same-sex parents will automatically grow up to become gay or lesbian, like their parents. Future directions are reviewed, including the need for longitudinal studies following children of same-sex parents in adulthood.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PSY 499, Capstone<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mary Ann Winter-Messiers<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">P114<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2 &#8211; 2:30 PM<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1ewWtaI0atW6gSZbSl51MXlKBHpgJci9NGmuY2PVLhPE\/edit?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Return to schedule<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Same-sex Couples Adopting and Raising Children In American society, many individuals perceive two heterosexual parents as the ideal family type. Same-sex couples may face more setbacks than heterosexual couples in attempting to adopt and raise children, since they may not be perceived as the ideal parents. Same-sex couples who want to adopt may need to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/?p=325\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Makenzie McLaughlin&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[661,790,29,32,33],"class_list":["post-325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fall-2017","tag-capstone","tag-mclaughlin-m","tag-psy","tag-psy-499","tag-winter-messiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":877,"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions\/877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}