The Lesbian Childbearing Couple: A Case Report

  1. Donna T. Tash BSN, CNM,
  2. Janet W. Kenney RN, PhD*

Article first published online: 2 APR 2007

DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-536X.1993.tb00177.x

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Birth

Birth

Volume 20, Issue 1, pages 36–40, March 1993

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Tash, D. T. and Kenney, J. W. (1993), The Lesbian Childbearing Couple: A Case Report. Birth, 20: 36–40. doi: 10.1111/j.1523-536X.1993.tb00177.x

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  1. Donna Tash is in solo practice Mesa: Nurse Midwifery Services, Mesa, and Janet Kenney is Associate Professor at the College of Nursing, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona.

*Address correspondence to Janet W. Kenney, RN, PhD, Associate Professor, College of Nursing, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287–2602.

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  1. Issue published online: 2 APR 2007
  2. Article first published online: 2 APR 2007

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ABSTRACT

Increasing numbers of lesbians are choosing to bear children. Inadequate information about these women's childbearing concerns, together with discrimination and insensitivity to their needs, places these couples at risk for receiving less than optimal health care. Lesbians who desire children are faced with numerous psychosocial problems that should be addressed by open and sensitive caregivers. Providing care to a lesbian couple demonstrated the ways in which their needs were similar to and different from those of heterosexual couples.

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