Annotated Biblography

Blaiq Charles

Todd Johnson

ENGL 123 – ERAU Worldwide

June 2, 2015

References

Subject: Cohabitation Before Marriage

Anonymous. (2005). A child of fate and love. Los Angeles: Regent Media.

-I liked this source and chose to use it because it provides a personal story of a same sex adoption in New Hampshire while at the same time it maintains a scholarly attitude. I think it is important to include at least one personal tale in order to show that these people are humans just like everyone else and how anyone can try and deny that is beyond me. This source show how the same sex couple is just as beautiful, yet fragile, as any other heterosexual relationship. This source differs from most of the others in that it does provide that personal and intimate look at the situation in question in my paper.

HAWKINS, J. (2007). My two dads: Challenging gender stereotypes in applying california's recent supreme court cases to gay couples. Family Law Quarterly, 41(3), 623-638.

-This source once again focuses on same sex couples in California. They note how advances in technology have allowed for more same sex couples to raise children. It goes on to discuss how the state has been slow to recognize these new non-traditional families and thus they are being deprived of the benefits that heterosexual couples would normally be afforded. I like this source as it provides specific details about the legal side of this issue as well as focuses on the social problem created by the lack of a timely response to this issue from the government of California.

Lobaugh, E. R., Clements, P. T., Averill, J. B., & Olguin, D. L. (2006). Gay‐Male couples who adopt: Challenging historical and contemporary social trends toward becoming a family. Perspectives in Psychiatric Care, 42(3), 184-195. doi:10.1111/j.1744-6163.2006.00081.x

-This source was interesting as it provided a more focused look into the psychological aspect of same sex relations and child rearing. The authors noted that...