{"id":15805,"date":"2013-06-16T00:01:23","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T05:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/%year%\/%monthnum%\/%day%\/its-fathers-day-for-many-american-men-including-23-of-those-who-are-lgbt\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T03:30:46","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T08:30:46","slug":"its-fathers-day-for-many-american-men-including-23-of-those-who-are-lgbt","status":"publish","type":"short-read","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2013\/06\/16\/its-fathers-day-for-many-american-men-including-23-of-those-who-are-lgbt\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Fathers\u2019 Day for many American men, including 23% of those who are LGBT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About a quarter of LGBT men may be getting Happy Fathers\u2019 Day wishes today.\u00a0According to the Pew Research Center\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/social-trends\/2013\/06\/13\/a-survey-of-lgbt-americans\/5\/#chapter-4-marriage-and-parenting\">new survey of LGBT Americans<\/a>, 23% of LGBT men are fathers, including 16% of gay men and 32% of bisexual men.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">LGBT men are significantly less likely than men in the general public to be fathers: Seven-in-ten American men are fathers, according to Pew Research Center polling. And, LGBT women are about twice as likely as LGBT men to be parents: 48% are mothers, including 31% of lesbians and 59% of bisexual women.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/social-trends\/2013\/06\/13\/a-survey-of-lgbt-americans\/5\/#chapter-4-marriage-and-parenting\"><img data-dominant-color=\"e6ebea\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #e6ebea;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"374\" height=\"662\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2013\/06\/FT_LGBT_Parents.png?resize=374,662 374w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 480px, (max-width: 782px) 782px, 640px\" class=\"wp-image-28053 not-transparent\" alt=\"FT_LGBT_Parents\" src=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2013\/06\/FT_LGBT_Parents.png\" ><\/a><\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not surprisingly, younger LGBT men are less likely to be parents (just 13% of 18-44 year old LGBT men are fathers compared with 34% of those ages 45 and older), but are more likely to say they\u2019d like to have children in the future (23% vs. 3%) .<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition to the 23% of LGBT men who are currently fathers, 14% say they would like to have a child someday.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">LGBT adults\u2014both men and women\u2014are less likely than the general public to view having children as an important reason to get married. Even as 93% of LGBT Americans support same-sex marriage and the same number favors allowing gay men and lesbians to adopt children, just 28% of all LGBT adults say having children is a very important reason to get married, with no significant differences between gay men (23%) and lesbians (29%). A third of bisexuals say this is a very important reason to get married. By contrast, 49% of American adults say that having children is a very important reason to get married. <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/social-trends\/2013\/06\/13\/a-survey-of-lgbt-americans\/5\/#chapter-4-marriage-and-parenting\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>See our other Father\u2019s Day posts:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/social-trends\/2013\/06\/14\/the-new-american-father\/\">The New American Father<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2013\/06\/11\/5-facts-about-fathers\/\">5 Facts about Fathers<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a quarter of LGBT men are fathers, and an additional 14% would like to have children someday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"sub_headline":null,"sub_title":"","_prc_public_revisions":[],"_ppp_expiration_hours":0,"_ppp_enabled":false,"ai_generated_summary":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"relatedPosts":[],"datacite_doi":"","datacite_doi_citation":"","_prc_seo_qr_attachment_id":0,"spoken_article_player_enabled":true,"displayBylines":true,"footnotes":"","prc_watchers":[],"_prc_fork_parent":0,"_prc_fork_status":"","_prc_active_fork":0},"categories":[221,108,218,215,228],"bylines":[964],"collection":[],"datasets":[],"_post_visibility":[],"formats":[467],"_fund_pool":[],"languages":[],"regions-countries":[515],"research-teams":[519],"workflow-status":[],"class_list":["post-15805","short-read","type-short-read","status-publish","hentry","category-household-structure-family-roles","category-lgbtq-acceptance","category-lgbtq-attitudes-experiences","category-motherhood-fatherhood","category-parenthood","bylines-jocelyn-kiley","formats-short-read","regions-countries-united-states","research-teams-social-trends"],"label":"Short Read","post_parent":0,"word_count":268,"canonical_url":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2013\/06\/16\/its-fathers-day-for-many-american-men-including-23-of-those-who-are-lgbt\/","art_direction":false,"_embeds":[],"watchers":[],"table_of_contents":[],"datacite_doi":"","prc_seo_data":{"title":"It\u2019s Fathers\u2019 Day for many American men, including 23% of those who are LGBT","description":"About a quarter of LGBT men are fathers, and an additional 14% would like to have children someday. 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