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8 - Relationship Recognition

from Part III - Lifespan Changes to Families and Relationships

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 December 2024

Sonja J. Ellis ,
Damien W. Riggs  and
Elizabeth Peel
Sonja J. Ellis
Affiliation:
University of Waikato, New Zealand
Damien W. Riggs
Affiliation:
Flinders University of South Australia
Elizabeth Peel
Affiliation:
Loughborough University
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Summary

This chapter focuses on the social recognition of LGBTIQ relationships and families and diversity within different relationship and family forms. A particular focus here is on the legal recognition of same-gender relationships and the impact that legal recognition can have on wider relationships and families. With reference to a range of contexts, this chapter first reviews research on marriage equality. Next, it focuses on families of choice and diverse communities, including polyamorous relationships and the complexities of relationships for bisexual and pansexual people. Other forms of consensual non-monogamy are also discussed.

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legal recognitionLGBTIQ relationshipsmarriage equalitysame-gender relationshipspolyamorymixed-orientation relationshipsconsensual non-monogamy
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Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Intersex, and Queer Psychology
An Introduction
 , pp. 158 - 174
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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Further Reading

Allen, K. R., & Goldberg, A. E. (2020). Lesbian women disrupting gendered, heteronormative discourses of motherhood, marriage, and divorce. Journal of Lesbian Studies, 24(1), 12–24,CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Eades, Q., & Vivienne, S. (2018). Going postal: More than ‘yes’ or ‘no’. Melbourne: The Lifted Brow.Google Scholar
Ferrer, J. N. (2022). Love and freedom: Transcending monogamy and polyamory. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.Google Scholar
Goldberg, A. E., & Romero, A. P. (Eds.). (2018). LGBTQ divorce and relationship dissolution: Psychological and legal perspectives and implications for practice. Oxford: Oxford University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kelly, J. (2012). Two daddy tigers and a baby tiger: Promoting understandings about same gender parented families using picture books. Early Years, 32(3), 288–300.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Pfeffer, C (2016). Queering families: The postmodern partnerships of cisgender women and transgender men. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
Riggs, D. W., & Peel, E. (2016). Critical kinship studies: An introduction to the field. London: Palgrave Macmillan.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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  • Relationship Recognition
  • Sonja J. Ellis, University of Waikato, New Zealand, Damien W. Riggs, Flinders University of South Australia, Elizabeth Peel, Loughborough University
  • Book: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Intersex, and Queer Psychology
  • Online publication: 12 December 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009335157.009
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  • Relationship Recognition
  • Sonja J. Ellis, University of Waikato, New Zealand, Damien W. Riggs, Flinders University of South Australia, Elizabeth Peel, Loughborough University
  • Book: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Intersex, and Queer Psychology
  • Online publication: 12 December 2024
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  • Relationship Recognition
  • Sonja J. Ellis, University of Waikato, New Zealand, Damien W. Riggs, Flinders University of South Australia, Elizabeth Peel, Loughborough University
  • Book: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Intersex, and Queer Psychology
  • Online publication: 12 December 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009335157.009
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