Lesben sind die besseren Väter. Regenbogenfamilien als Vorbild für gleichberechtigte Elternschaft

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READING I Edition Nautilus

With LISA BENDIEK

Why are lesbians the better parents? What goes wrong in the hetero nuclear family? And why do the state and society find it so difficult to recognize queer families as fully-fledged families?

This is not a guidebook. This book is a plea for queer families to no longer be seen as deficient, but to recognize that they do even better than the classic hetero nuclear family. It explores queer parenthood and its diverse realities, which still have to assert themselves against legal and social discrimination and fear the right-wing backlash more than others. This book is also an analysis of the mechanisms that cement inequality in hetero families, even if self-image and aspirations have long since contradicted this. And last but not least, it is a suggestion to think outside the box and leave behind deeply rooted basic assumptions about parenthood and family.

Lisa Bendiek uses her knowledge as a queer mother and the results of numerous studies to draw a well-founded picture of different family models. She shows how traditional gender roles and a logic of no alternatives in heterosexual families still prevent care work and employment from being shared equally.

The author counters resentments such as concerns about the welfare of children in rainbow families with the same "empirically based pomposity" with which she urges straight families to take queer families as an example in their own interests: for happier parents and children and for a more equal society.

LISA BENDIEK born in 1988, the daughter of a breadwinner and a househusband. Studied ethnology and psychology. Freelance trainer for feminist rhetoric and interpreter for the mobile victim counseling service for victims of right-wing violence in Saxony-Anhalt. Full-time speaker for anti-discrimination educational work, focus: racism-critical sensitization for educators in Saxony, argumentation training against right-wing populism and feminist rhetoric.

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