Family in transition: parents, children and grandparents in lesbian families give meaning to ‘doing family’

摘要: Lesbian parents, their children and grandparents ‘do family’ in rich diverse ways. This article draws on innovative grounded theory research using qualitative, multi-generational family interviews with twenty lesbian-parented families living Victoria, Australia. The intersection between the public private lesbian life has been seriously neglected by researchers, particular perspectives of members other than parents themselves. addresses question ‘How define describe family’, results reported here focus children's grandparents' views, because they are voices less well represented literature. Children straddle both mainstream marginalized spaces as negotiate contemporary life. We examine interface tensions traditional transformative, implications these findings for therapists briefly discussed.