Childlessness and Barriers to Gay Parenthood in Czechia

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68378025%3A_____%2F22%3A00557722" target="_blank" >RIV/68378025:_____/22:00557722 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclusion/article/view/5246" target="_blank" >https://www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclusion/article/view/5246</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/si.v10i3.5246" target="_blank" >10.17645/si.v10i3.5246</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Childlessness and Barriers to Gay Parenthood in Czechia

Original language description

This mixed‐methods article focuses on childlessness and barriers to parenthood among non‐heterosexual men in Czechia. On the quantitative sample of 419 men (165 gays, 125 bisexuals, and 129 heterosexuals with same‐sex romantic/sexual attraction), recruited on a representative online panel, we map the parenting desires, intentions, and perceived barriers to parenthood. Our analysis identifies a substantial group of gay men without parenting desires and intentions compared to heterosexuals and bisexuals, and the lack of legal recognition of same‐sex families as a crucial barrier to gay parenthood. The qualitative enquiry, based on semi‐structured interviews with 23 self‐identified gay men aged 25 to 47 years, explores how they reflect on (not) becoming parents and contextualises those reflections. The deployed concept of “parental consciousness” captures the variety of considered pathways to gay parenthood and proves itself useful in understanding the low parenting desires and a generational shift among Czech gay men. We argue that men able to come out in their early adulthood in the post‐socialist context tend to have more diversified perspectives on possible pathways to parenthood. Among gay men without children, we identified three distinct perceptions of the state: given childlessness, chosen childfree life, and a life stage/indecision. The informants pursuing parenthood have seen identity‐specific barriers to parenthood as crucial, which is discussed in the context of state selective regulations of the relational lives of persons with non‐normative identities. Although Czech gay men’s parental consciousness has increased, legal conditions remain crucial for increasing their real‐life options.n

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50401 - Sociology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA18-07456S" target="_blank" >GA18-07456S: Parental Desires and Intentions of Czech Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Men and Women</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Social Inclusion

ISSN

2183-2803

e-ISSN

2183-2803

Volume of the periodical

10

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

PT - PORTUGAL

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

124-137

UT code for WoS article

000860323700005

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85140121396