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| Henny BosSummaryAffiliation: University of Amsterdam Country: The Netherlands Publications
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Adolescents of the US National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study: the impact of having a known or an unknown donor on the stability of psychological adjustmentH M W Bos
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Research Institute of Child Development and Education, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Hum Reprod 26:630-7. 2011....
Adolescents of the USA National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study: can family characteristics counteract the negative effects of stigmatization?Henny Bos
University of Amsterdam, Graduate School of Pedagogical and Educational Sciences, Nieuwe Prinsengracht 130, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Fam Process 49:559-72. 2010..The results indicate that adolescents who have close, positive relationships with their lesbian mothers demonstrate resilience in response to stigmatization...
Children of the new reproductive technologies: social and genetic parenthoodHenny Bos
Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Department of Education, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Patient Educ Couns 81:429-35. 2010..To review empirical studies on families created by new reproductive technologies (NRT) in which only one parent has a genetic link to the child...
The USA National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study (NLLFS): homophobia, psychological adjustment, and protective factorsHenny M W Bos
Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Department of Education, University of Amsterdam, P O Box 94208, 1090 GE Amsterdam, The Netherlands
J Lesbian Stud 12:455-71. 2008..Attending schools with LGBT curricula and their mothers' participation in the lesbian community were found to protect children against the negative influences of homophobia...
Children in planned lesbian families: a cross-cultural comparison between the United States and the NetherlandsHenny M W Bos
Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Department od Education, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Am J Orthopsychiatry 78:211-9. 2008..Homophobia was found to account for part of the difference in psychosocial adjustment between the Dutch and the American children...
Children in planned lesbian families: stigmatisation, psychological adjustment and protective factorsHenny M W Bos
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Department of Education, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Cult Health Sex 10:221-36. 2008..Findings support the idea that children in planned lesbian families benefit from the experience of meeting other children from similar families...
Same-sex attraction, social relationships, psychosocial functioning, and school performance in early adolescenceHenny M W Bos
Department of Education, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Wibautstraat 4, 1090 GE Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Dev Psychol 44:59-68. 2008..A mediation analysis revealed that differences in psychosocial functioning resulted from differences in the quality of the same-sex attracted youths' social relationships, especially with fathers and peers...
Child adjustment and parenting in planned lesbian families with known and as-yet unknown donorsHenny M W Bos
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Department of Education, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
J Psychosom Obstet Gynaecol 28:121-9. 2007..Furthermore, annoying questions from people in their social environment as well as gossip and feelings of being excluded, were more frequently reported by mothers with a (currently) unknown donor...
Child adjustment and parenting in planned lesbian-parent familiesHenny M W Bos
Department of Education, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Am J Orthopsychiatry 77:38-48. 2007..Child adjustment is not associated with family type (lesbian-parent families vs. heterosexual-parent families), but is predicted by power assertion, parental concern, and satisfaction with the partner as coparent...
Lesbian families and family functioning: an overviewH M W Bos
Department of Education, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Wibautstraat 4, 1090 GE Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Patient Educ Couns 59:263-75. 2005..In the last 30 years a growing body of studies on lesbian parents and the development of children has been published...
Experience of parenthood, couple relationship, social support, and child-rearing goals in planned lesbian mother familiesHenny M W Bos
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Department of Education, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 45:755-64. 2004....
Family relationships and the psychosocial adjustment of school-aged children in intact familiesEsther M Hakvoort
Department of Education, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Nieuwe Prinsengracht 130, 1090 GE Amsterdam, The Netherlands
J Genet Psychol 171:182-201. 2010..However, contrary to previous studies no support was found for the association between marital relationship and sibling relationship, or for that between marital relationship quality and children's adjustment...
Planned lesbian families: their desire and motivation to have childrenHenny M W Bos
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Department of Education, University of Amsterdam, Wibautstraat 4, 1091 GM, The Netherlands
Hum Reprod 18:2216-24. 2003..The reason for studying this is that desire and motivation to have children are characteristics that are supposed to effect parenting and the parent-child relationship...
