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    Inclusion of LGBTIQ-parented Children in Early Childhood Settings: What Are the Lessons from the Literature?
    Liang, Xinyun ( 2018)
    The recent social and legislative understanding of diverse families has extended to include those headed by people of diverse gender and sexuality, but children and their lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ) parents are still experiencing stigma and not adequately catered for in early childhood education and care (ECEC). This paucity motivated the current study to explore factors influencing the ways that LGBTIQ-parented families are catered for in ECEC settings. Using an ecological model initially proposed by Bronfenbrenner as a conceptual framework, this study systematically reviewed contemporary scholarly discourse relating to the experiences of LGBTIQ-parented families when using ECEC services (2013 – 2018). A hypothesised ecological model for inclusion was developed based on preliminary reading and refined after a thorough assessment of twenty-three contemporary scholarly articles that focused exclusively on the ECEC context (birth to 5). By doing so, this review presented a synthesis of existing knowledge to identify stakeholders who should be influenced in making ECEC programs accountable for LGBTIQ-parented children. Despite some progress in this field of study, considerable gaps remain in current understanding. Missing or limited research areas are discussed to imply future research needs.
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    Families courting the Web: the Internet in the everyday life of household families
    Waller, Vivienne ( 2000)
    Popular reactions to having the Internet at home include exaggerated fears that families will split up as a result of secret on-line romances and fears that children will learn how to build bombs at home. The Preliminary Stanford Institute Report Internet and Society (2000) which looks at the social consequences of the Internet similarly seems to presume that people are passive consumers of the technology. At the other extreme are studies which suppose that consumers have complete control over the effects of the technology. For example, Silverstone and Hirsch (1992) tend towards a notion of complete agency of the consumer with their model of the appropriation, objectification, incorporation and conversion of information and communication technologies into the household. In this paper, I present findings from a series of in-depth interviews with different types of Australian household families to reveal the diversity of responses to the Internet. Conceiving of the family as a process of continual renegotiation, I theorise the way in which the Internet intersects with the daily life of household families as both an effect of the way in which individuals enact their understanding of family, while simultaneously, use of the Internet enables new performances of the family. Both the technology and the individual members are actors and the performance of family at any time is always an achievement rather than the predictable result of the interaction of the technology with a coherent household.