The gay parenting families are all those family where, at least, one adult homosexual is the parent of a child within the new family composed. In the current literature, the authors underline the increases of this fam- ily typology in the last years. The focus is on the relations in the homosexual couple and, in which way, the sexual parents’ orientation could affect the children. But the literature background registers a lack of researches and several methodological problems. Actually, our social context requires to the researchers to fill up this gap in the present studies.
Keywords: Gay parenting family, homosexual couples, sexual orientation, type of family, children of gay couples.

Caterina Eleuteri, Annamaria Loparco, Valentini Arianna Proietti, silvia Santi, Gay parenting families: is it a new family? in "RIVISTA DI PSICOTERAPIA RELAZIONALE " 35/2012, pp. 43-61, DOI:10.3280/PR2012-035004