Susan Golombok is professor of family research and director of the Centre for Family Research at the University of Cambridge, and a professorial fellow at Newnham College, Cambridge. Her pioneering research on lesbian mother families, gay father families, single mothers by choice, and families created by assisted reproductive technologies has been instrumental to our understanding of both child development and social and ethical issues related to family life.
‘In this important and compelling book, Professor Susan Golombok
gives evidence that the expansion of domestic structures represents
not the downfall of family, but the expansion of it to include
previously unfathomed, rich possibilities. She explains the new
ways people find to reproduce and to be parents, examines how the
changes evolved over the last forty years or so, and illuminates
the workings of previously undocumented kinds of households. In
doing so, she supplies fresh and exquisite narratives of intimacy;
this is, at heart, a book about love.’
*Andrew Solomon, author of Far from the Tree*
‘This inspiring book by Professor Susan Golombok is a rebuff to
people who reject diverse families with unfounded claims that they
harm children. She tells the personal stories of children brought
up by lesbian mothers, gay fathers, single parents, co-parents, and
trans parents; showing that they are equally well-adjusted, happy
and emotionally stable as children from traditional mum and dad
families. Golombok refutes fear and prejudice with evidence and
facts. Bravo!’
*Peter Tatchell*
‘Brilliant ... Professor Golombok takes you on a powerful journey
in this moving account of her tireless work with LGBTQ+ and other
families.’
*April Guasp, Head of Research, Stonewall*
‘This book explores what really fosters healthy relationships
within families … a quick, pleasurable read.’
*Farrago*
‘In this compelling book Susan Golombok draws on decades of
research into lesbian mothers, IVF families, gay father families,
single-mother families, and trans families to measure the impact on
children of these non-traditional family forms.’
*The Age*
‘In We Are Family, Susan Golombok, a world leader in studying and
understanding these new types of families, vividly draws on decades
of experience to convey their lives and the dilemmas they face.
This moving and timely book will surely benefit many people,
wonderfully illustrating how these diverse types of parents are
creating healthy and loving families.’
*Dr Robert Klitzman, professor of psychiatry at Columbia
University, and author of Designing Babies*
‘Research driven and wide ranging in scope, this newest book by
Golombok details nontraditional family structures and explores why
transforming our collective understanding of families matters for
us all. … Golombok reworks domestic narratives to show the family
as a structure with plasticity enough to encompass relationships
divested from rigid or fixed categories of gender and sexuality and
that "children can flourish in all kinds of new family forms." … An
essential, thought-provoking work that will serve as the foundation
for future studies.’ STARRED REVIEW
*Library Journal*
Praise for Modern Families: ‘Modern Families is a landmark
publication, a succinct state-of-the-art review, and is highly
relevant reading for researchers in developmental psychology or
family studies and for students in these fields. Policymakers, and
indeed parents or want-to-be parents of children brought up in de
novo or planned lesbian or gay families, will also want to read
this rich and inspiring book.’
*Journal of GLBT Family Studies*
Praise for Modern Families: ‘For years, a basic premise was that
the more a family deviated from the traditional, two-parent,
heterosexual family, the more the child’s psychological well-being
was in jeopardy. Golombok addresses a more elemental question by
asking how the parenting children in new families experience
actually differs from that found in traditional families. Highly
recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty and
professionals, [and] general readers.’
*Choice*
Praise for Modern Families: ‘This book would be most beneficial to
any professional working systemically or for any professional
working with more contemporary family form to better understand how
that family form works in order to parent well and to be aware of
where potential conflicts may arise.’
*The Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health*
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