Attitudes Toward Parenthood, Partnership, and Social Rights for Diverse Families: Evidence From a Pilot Study in Five Countries.

Yerkes, Mara A.; Dotti Sani, Giulia Maria; Solera, Cristina

Attitudes toward the civil and social citizenship rights of individuals in diverse family forms are underresearched. We use cross-national data from a pilot study among students in Denmark, Spain, Croatia, Italy and the Netherlands to explore cross-country differences in beliefs about partnership, parenthood and social rights of same-sex couples vs. heterosexual couples or married vs. cohabiting couples. The results suggest a polarization in student's attitudes between countries that appear more traditional (i.e., Italy and Croatia) and less traditional (Spain and the Netherlands), where the rights of married heterosexual couples are privileged over other family forms more so than in nontraditional countries. Moreover, equality in social rights is generally more widely accepted than equality in civil rights, particularly in relationship to parenthood rights and in more traditional countries. We discuss the implications of these findings and the implications for further research in this underexplored area of attitudinal research.

GAY couples; GAY families; STUDENT attitudes; PARENTHOOD; CITIZENSHIP; LEGAL status of gay couples; MARRIED people; GAY rights

Journal of Homosexuality, 2018, Vol 65, Issue 1, p80

0091-8369

Academic Journal

10.1080/00918369.2017.1310507