To Be or Not to Be a Parent? Parenting Aspiration of Men with Non-Normative Sexual Identities in Czechia

0556479 - SOÚ 2023 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
Maříková, Hana - Vohlídalová, Marta
To Be or Not to Be a Parent? Parenting Aspiration of Men with Non-Normative Sexual Identities in Czechia.
LGBTQ+ Family: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Roč. 18, č. 2 (2022), s. 101-118. ISSN 2770-3371. E-ISSN 2770-338X
R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GA18-07456S
Institutional support: RVO:68378025
Keywords : Parenting desires and intentions * male sexual identities * barriers to gay parenthood * Czech Republic/Czechia * CEE country
OECD category: Social topics (Women´s and gender studies; Social issues; Family studies; Social work)
Method of publishing: Limited access
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/27703371.2022.2039888

Using data from an online survey of a representative random sample of 334 men with non-normative sexual identities in Czechia, this article investigates how non-normative sexualities of men shape their parenting desires and intentions and perceived barriers to parenthood. The results show that the parenting desires and intentions of gay men are weaker than bisexual and heterosexual men who claim same-sex attraction. The findings unveil the mechanism that links sexual identities to parenting intentions. In a CEE country with institutional barriers to non-heterosexual parenthood, this study fills a gap in the knowledge about the relationship between self-identified gay and bisexual men and not/becoming a parent.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0330697