Hey all,
I'm looking for some (hopefully recent) studies regarding the effects a parent's transition has on their children. It's something that comes up a LOT when friends and family express reservations about accepting the transition itself. It would be interesting what people who have studied the issue seriously have found.
This is the only one I found so far: Adaptation and adjustment in children of transsexual parents http://www.springerlink.com/content/2618254197151724/ (http://www.springerlink.com/content/2618254197151724/)
Surely it's not a one of a kind area of study. Can anyone else help out?
This may be of interest/help ... it's a site for families with a transitioning parent and although it doesn't have academic research as I recall, there are many testimonies from kids who talk in detail about their experiences. Which is probably at least as helpful for any of us as an academic's analysis ...
http://www.colage.org/programs/trans/resources.htm (http://www.colage.org/programs/trans/resources.htm)
Diana,
I asked my therapist if she could dig up any studies, articles or websites on this topic. She said she would have them for our next meeting. That's on the 14th. I'll let you know what she finds!
~Jas
Some of the stuff on the colage site is outdated. The legal questions part in particular.
Hi Diana ... I agree with Carlita, Colage is a decent site with some good information. Some of it may be a little outdated, but still fairly recent enough to help and provide insight. Let me know as well if you come across some good information because I'd be interested in it too having two relatively still young daughters myself. Take care and good luck.
Jenni :)
From my own situation my kids seem to have adjusted well. My teen daughter has issues with not knowing what to say. She's in the habit of saying that she's with her dad part of the week, and with her mom the other part. But then there's me. Mom is a man. She's not comfortable lying, nor does she want to tell people mom is a man. She's resorted to saying her family is complicated for the moment. I've told her she should start saying she has 2 male parents.
My son hasn't had that problem yet; he's more introverted and has fewer friends, and the ones he has either know, or only know him at his dad's house.
In the past few weeks I asked each (separately) if they missed having a Mom (as in female-bodied, cookie baking, stereotypical Mom, which I used to be for them). Son said no, because I have YOU! (Big Hugs!! - he's a big hugger). Daughter said no, why? I said idk, but sometimes do you wish you still had a normal mom? And she said, no, what's normal, anyway? And I said, true. Look at my mom (very eccentric).
Jay