ABSTRACT
Children with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or queer (LGBTQ) parents are a diverse group of individuals; likewise, the therapeutic issues they may present with are also diverse. ere is no singular or universal experience of what it is like to be a child with LGBTQ parents. is is, in part, because these children vary by such social location factors as gender, race and ethnicity, socioeconomic class, age, and sexual orientation. Further, these children reside in geographic locations representing a range of social climates in terms of openness to, and acceptance of, LGBTQ people and families (Oswald, Cuthbertson, Lazarevic, & Goldberg, 2010). Moreover, the various identities of the parents themselves as LGBT and/or Q; ways in which the parents came to have children (e.g., donor insemination, surrogacy, adoption, or heterosexual intercourse); and family structures (e.g., single parent or multiparent) and transitions (e.g., parental separation or death, or stepfamily formation) contribute to the diversity of these children’s experiences and perspectives. As one might imagine, a 6-year-old African American boy, growing up with two White, gay fathers in an urban East Coast community, may or may not have all that much in common with a 16-year-old White girl living in a rural midwestern state and experiencing her mother’s transition from female to male.
