FAMILY IDENTITY OF MEN AND WOMEN IN SAME-SEX UNIONS

Abstract

The paper highlights the topicality of the problem
of family identity in single-sex unions and provides research
findings in this area. It defines family identity as a special
form of personal and group identity which includes three
aspects of family- and self-perception: structural, emotionalevaluative
and cognitive. The author arrives at the conclusion
that the notion of family identity in homosexual and lesbian
unions has a compensatory character consisting in the
opposition of same-sex families to heterosexual families and
unmarried unions. Same-sex unions perceive themselves as
being privileged and having a higher quality of interpersonal
and family relationships.