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Do Children Need Both a Mother and a Father?

The Relationship Between Science and Politics
Session ID#: 
212

Timothy Biblarz and Judith Stacey, Discussant: Joseph Pleck

Date: 
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Time: 
10:15 am - Noon
Session Location: 
Salons A/B/C
Session Type: Plenary

About the Session

Plenary Sponsor: University of Georgia, Department of Child and Family Development, College of Family and Consumer Sciences

Related: Parenting, Plenary

Judith Stacey discusses her research on parents; biological married, single, and gay and lesbian

Judith Stacey, Ph.D., speaks about the diversity of parents; biological married, single, and gay and lesbian in this clip from Do Children Need Both a Mother and a Father? Runtime: 6:22

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Joseph Pleck speaks on Are Fathers Essential?

Joseph Pleck, Ph.D., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, speaks about the essential father hypothesis as a discussant in the Biblarz and Stacey presentation, Do Children Need Both a Mother and a Father? Runtime: 0:59

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Do Children Need Both a Mother and a Father? - Audio Recording

Do Children Need Both a Mother and a Father? - Video Recording

Timothy Biblarz, Ph.D., University of Southern California, and Judith Stacey, Ph.D., New York University, lead this signature plenary session. In their JMF article in February, Timothy Biblarz and Judith Stacey challenged the idea that “fatherless” children are necessarily at a disadvantage or that men provide a different, indispensable set of parenting skills than women. The article is based on their analysis of relevant studies about parenting, including available research on single-mother and single-father households, gay male parents and lesbian parents.

Discussant: Joseph Pleck, Ph.D., University of Illinois