To build a family: exploring preferred paths to parenthood among plurisexual individuals without children
To build a family: exploring preferred paths to parenthood among plurisexual individuals without children
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Janowicz, Kamil
Gato, Jorge
Vázquez, Inês
Coimbra, Susana
Santos, Inês
Dore, Iolanda
Shenkman, Geva
Ciesielski, Paweł
Tasker, Fiona
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2025-08-13
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Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology
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0264-6838
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Aims/Background: Limited research has examined family-building strategies among plurisexual individuals. Culture and gender are essential determinants of parenthood prospects among individuals with minoritized sexual identities. For plurisexual individuals, the partner’s gender also seems to play a critical role. Our investigation aimed to explore cisgender plurisexual individuals’ preferred paths to parenthood considering their country of origin, gender, and partner’s gender.
Design/Method: We examined associations between preferred pathways to parenthood and country, gender, and partner’s gender among 405 cisgender plurisexual individuals aged between 18 and 45 years (M = 25.76; SD = 5.57), from Portugal (n = 140; 34.9%), Israel (n = 78; 19.3%), Poland (n = 85; 21%), and the UK (n = 102; 25.2%).
Results: Overall, couple adoption and sexual intercourse were the most chosen pathways to parenthood, and self-insemination and co-parenting were the least chosen. Participants from Poland and the United Kingdom were less likely to choose artificial insemination, single adoption, and self-insemination than their Portuguese counterparts. Women were more likely than men to choose artificial insemination. Individuals in different-gender relationships were more likely to choose sexual intercourse as a means of having children than were those in same-gender relationships, and the opposite was true for artificial insemination.
Conclusion: Country, gender, and the partner’s gender influence plurisexual individuals’ choice of some parenthood pathways. Psychological and reproductive counselling should consider these aspects.
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cross-cultural
parenthood
gender
partner gender
plurisexuality
parenthood
gender
partner gender
plurisexuality
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