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Social Work Practice with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Nonbinary (LGBTQ+) Parents

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This chapter provides an overview of the ways in which lesbians, gay men, trans, and nonbinary (LGBT+) people are having children and creating families. Utilizing data collected from over four decades of social work practice in working with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and nonbinary (LGBT+) people to examine their experiences of creating family through parenting. This chapter will also review the most recent scholarship on LGBT+ families.

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Mallon, G.P. (2021). Social Work Practice with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Nonbinary (LGBTQ+) Parents. In: Morais, N.A.d., Scorsolini-Comin, F., Cerqueira-Santos, E. (eds) Parenting and Couple Relationships Among LGBTQ+ People in Diverse Contexts. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84189-8_11

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