抄録
In recent years, there are various kinds of issues related to families, such as increase in the number of divorces, people who choose to remain single, and the decline in the number of children. People are now reconsidering the family which they had been accustomed to, and searching for new family styles. In this article, a new family style will be considered from the perspective of lesbian mothers. Lesbianheaded families are distinct from traditional heterosexual families and have not been fully accepted by society. Regardless of such circumstances, lesbian mothers, stigmatized as being “inappropriate mothers, ” are making their own families. What kinds of people are lesbian mothers? What kinds of relationships do they have with their children? What kinds of prejudice do they confront? Above all, what kinds of families are they aiming to be? To research their experiences would reveal some problems hidden in the traditional family system, such as patriarchy and heterosexism. Families seem to keep on changing dynamically as each person starts to strive for their own family style and challenge the notion of “the family.”
