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Bisexual parents and family diversity : findings from the work, love, play study
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posted on 2012-10-01, 00:00 authored by J Power, A Perlesz, Rhonda BrownRhonda Brown, M Schofield, M Pitts, R McNair, A BickerdikeThis article reports on findings from the Work, Love, Play study, an Australian/New Zealand study of same-sex attracted parents. There were 48 parents in this study who identified as bisexual. There was a diversity of contexts in which people in this sample were parenting: heterosexual relationships, same-sex relationships, coparenting with ex-partners or nonpartners, and sole parenting. A large number of these bisexual parents had experience of divorce or separation since having children, but most reported positive aspects to their parenting relationships with ex-partners. Very few people in this study reported that bisexual identity created difficulties for them as a parent.