Abstract

PLACERES HERNANDEZ, José Fernando et al. Homoparental family in real life and current family diversity. Rev.Med.Electrón. [online]. 2017, vol.39, n.2, pp. 361-369. ISSN 1684-1824.

There are many definitions of a family, from some classic ones like that saying that it is ". the basic cell or nucleus of the society, the primary social institution, a social sub-system and a social relation", to others, more complexes, considering it a group of  inter-related persons living together. The family is the intermediary group between the individual, community and society. It is, despite the great transformation of the contemporary world, the natural habitat of the human being. In the current century, the family gets structurally diverse, and one of the variants of the nuclear family may be the homoparental one, that is formed by parents with homosexual  sexual orientation. Although it is not a new phenomenon, it is nowadays when it is having an intense acceleration beginning from the legal recognition of the marriage between persons of the same sex in many nations. Homoparental families are able to educate and grow their children up satisfactorily. Parents´ sexual orientation is not an indicator useful to assess the educative function of the parents. Parents and children of homoparental families should incorporate resilient elements allowing affronting any potentially negative social manifestation against them.

Keywords : family; homoparental family; homosexuality.

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