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Deborah Dempsey
Researcher at Swinburne University of Technology
Publications - 52
Citations - 1045
Deborah Dempsey is an academic researcher from Swinburne University of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Lesbian & Donor Conception. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 52 publications receiving 946 citations. Previous affiliations of Deborah Dempsey include La Trobe University.
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Writing themselves in: a national report on the sexuality, health and well-being of same-sex attracted young people
TL;DR: A survey about young people who are attracted to their own sex was published in 1998 as mentioned in this paper, where participants were asked to write stories about their experiences, including when they first knew about their sexual feelings, their relationships with family and friends, and their hopes for the future.
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Surrogacy, gay male couples and the significance of biogenetic paternity
TL;DR: In this paper, the meaning and management of biogenetic paternity in the creation of their family relationships was investigated. But, despite the extent to which participants underplayed the importance of paternal biological connections in creating or defining the meaning of family, they also emphasized that the kinship resource must be carefully managed in creating and maintaining couple, parent-child and extended family relationships.
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Conceiving and Negotiating Reproductive Relationships: Lesbians and Gay Men Forming Families with Children
TL;DR: Lesbian and gay parented families are often viewed through the lens of "families of choice" which assumes they are self-reflexive and innovative in structure as discussed by the authors.
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Lesbian Parenting: Issues, Strengths and Challenges
TL;DR: The Lesbian and Gay Families Project (LGFP) as mentioned in this paper is a new study of lesbian, bisexual, gay, transgender, and intersex families, focusing on aspects of the data collected from 136 women participants.
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Qualitative Social Research: Contemporary Methods for the Digital Age
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an accessible approach to present the multiple ways in which criticism enhances research practice and highlight the strengths and pitfalls of each research method, integrating the philosophical groundings of qualitative research with thoughtful overviews of a range of commonly used methods.