Why LGBTQ adults don-t end troubled ties with parents and why (perhaps) they should
Families We Keep is a surprising look at the life-long bonds between LGBTQ adults and their parents. Alongside the importance of -chosen families- in the queer community, Rin Reczek and Emma Bosley-Smith found that very few LGBTQ people choose to become estranged from their parents, even if those parent refuse to support their gender identity, sexuality, or both.
Drawing on interviews with over seventy-five LGBTQ people and their parents, Reczek and Bosley-Smith explore the powerful ties that bind families together, for better or worse. They show us why many feel obliged to maintain even troubled-and sometimes outright toxic-relationships with their parents. They argue that this relationship persists because what we think of as the -natural- and inevitable connection between parents and adult children is actually created and sustained by the sociocultural power of compulsory
