Talk:Creating a Family in the LGBT Community

Your wiki page definitely performed its purpose of explaining the background and in-depth information about creating families in LGBT Community! It is definitely a doubt for people who believe children should be raised by a pair of heterosexual parents. Interestingly, the CNS News has summarized a research by Dr.Mark Regnerus that children raised by homosexual parents are more likely to experience some of these negative outcomes: poor educational attainment, more often to attend counselling and therapy, unemployment as a young adult, etc. However, I believe being in the LGBT community should not hinder parents' decision to create a family, and Vancouver particularly is very supportive of diversity.

More information on the research by Dr. Mark Regnerus: https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/lynn-wardle/childrens-sake-we-must-not-ignore-differences-between-heterosexual-and-same

Great job! Your page is informative! I like how you refer to psychologists' analysis and argue about social norms and stigma, rather than just addressing the types of family formation. I chose your page to comment because your wiki title was attractive, which makes me want to read it! Maybe I would like to see some examples from BC or Canada to describe more about the methods that you have listed. But overall, great job!

I think your article is very informative and well thought out! Well done! Maybe go more into depth with your examples, and bring up some things that have been in the news?

Your article was very informative so that I could deeply understand LGBT family.

I heard some people say that same-sex parents cause more confusions to the kids and this described the family structure unhealthy to the kids. However, this actually degrades the single-mom/single-father family too. Like today, as the prejudice toward the single-parent family is getting better, the world for LGBT family will be better.

I also heard that BC has more favorable legislation than any other provinces, but I heard BC is actually very conservative and they are not really helping LGBR community rather than approving the marriage itself. I want to hear more about the legislation of each province if possible.

Thank you for your article.

I think the page could be enhanced by focusing additionally on families with trans parents, as the difficulties they face may be different from those same-sex couples face. It would also be interesting to see how race and socioeconomic status factor into either ameliorating or exacerbating these issues.

I think the way this was written was very engaging and you did a good job providing in depth information while remaining concise. The only think I would say you could change is to add something about surrogacy as that is a commonly used method. I liked the subheadings you used as I felt they were not over done but managed to distribute the information perfectly!

I really enjoyed the article and having the background and history really helped contextualize the rest of the article. I also appreciate that you mentioned the legal complications of adoptions for LGBTQ people and even in in vitro insemination. Even if someone sponsors and volunteers to adopt the baby, they might not always be able to!

I just have a question regarding what you meant by 'risky behaviour' in the Social norms and Stigma tab, I would suggest you elaborate a little bit on that.

Hi! I enjoyed reading your article. I think adding more about artificial insemination and IV fertilization in same-sex couples would be important. Maybe talking more about various options for same-sex couples in this situation or challenges they may face. For example you could talk about how LGBTQ parents may have more difficulty adopting children from third world countries due to their sexual orientation, especially when dealing with less progressive countries (unlike the US and Canada).

Either way, great work!

Briana

I like your topic and how intersectional you wrote it! I would just suggest making it more intersectional by adding gay men (surrogacy) and trans people into this as well :)

The parts on IVF and adoption were really informative!

This is such an awesome topic that surrounds completely around the themes of the course!

I really enjoyed reading your page as it gets all the information across a really effective way without being too lengthly or boring. By splitting up your sub titles the way you have, they all flow really nicely and your citations within the text body don’t interfere with the text at all! (You seem super tech savvy LOL)

I really loved your section on In Vitro Insemination, but maybe also add a part about how gay men use surrogate mothers, or other forms of medial aided forms to have biological children as well.

Also, a small side note to add the “+” to your main title as its used through your page.