Event overview
Diana van Bergen Presents: Three cohorts of LGBQ individuals in the USA, understanding the complexity of parental responses and exploring generational differences.
Of particular interest to family researchers is the process of coming out to parents as a major part of the identification process by Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Queer youth. Recently, researchers suggested that parental responses to coming out may more be complicated than “rejecting” versus “accepting”. Furthermore, LGBQ youth come out at a younger age and in greater proportions than before. Therefore is relevant to better understand the complexities of parental responses to coming out, and particularly to examine whether LGBQ youth who grow up today have access to better quality responses from their parents than older cohorts.
Using a unique and large dataset of qualitative interview data with 191 LGBQ persons in the USA belonging to three cohorts (The Generation Study, see Meyer et al., 2015), we identified five themes based on a variety of parental reactions when participants came out to them.
In the seminar, these themes will be presented and generational differences will be discussed in light of LGBQ youth and family research.
Dates & times
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28 Nov 2018 | 4:30pm - 6:30pm |
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