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Maternidad lesbiana
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Lesbian maternity
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By Silvana Avellaneda

Redefinir who mother is no a single one or who family not only is papa, mother and nen@s are a task whom he demands to retrace steps prejudices, to visibilizar situations and to put to him words clear and direct to a reality that prevails. How journeys that passage the lesbian mothers and his hij@s? Testimonies that reveal how the lesbian maternity puts in mirror dogmas and fear, prejudices and estigmas.


The lesbian mothers face in our country, where not even releases their existence? the paradox of the dogmas of which it must exist a family with mother and papa and that everything what it is not thus is rare and dangerous? , Isabel Monzón says to the psychoanalyst.

The most eloquent sample of which it is silenced is the absence of statistics and relevamientos (like in the last national census or in the permanent surveys of homes) where briefs the existence of homoparentales homes: pairs that hij@s by artificial insemination or assembled families conceives to his where l@s hij@s were born in heterosexual marriages.

The negation more far arrives and estigmatiza when trying that to leave the traditional canons of family, parentales relations and maternal and paternal figures in the ideal raising of l@s hij@s implies necessarily something terrible for the emotional life of l@s chic@s.

The only exception is its flexibility in the rolls and a greater acceptance of the homosexualidad? , one is in charge to deny a report guaranteed by the Official School of Psychologists of Madrid and financed by the Defender of the Minor of the community and the Meeting of Andalusia. According to the study, l@s hij@s of homosexual pairs? they do not present/display differences with l@s hardly hij@s of families composed by heterosexuales'.

By the doubts, the American Academy of Pediatría or said in June of 2002 that l@s hij@s of pairs gay or lesbians was adapted social and psychologically like l@s hij@s of heterosexual pairs. And they indicated that es@s chic@s? they deserve to have the security to have two legally recognized parents.

At least two books approach the subject of the lesbian matenidad from the voices of mothers and hij@s. Lesbian mothers: children and daughters of lesbians speak of their lives? (2005, Ed. Bellaterra). The authors Louise Rafkin and Gemma Races compiled 38 testimonies of hij@s between 5 and 45 years that count their experiences of life to grow in a lesbian family; the pressures of its pairs, the invisibility or estigma in the school and clubs, the safekeeping of the parents and? to live in the love and the respect on a homoparental family? , they indicate his authors.

Two Mothers? (2006, Lumen) of Muriel Villanueva, it is the direct testimony of her who grew up next to her biological mother and her pair. In June the author visited Buenos Aires and related that the book arose from the debate in Spain on the law of marriage and adoption on the part of homosexual families. I got upset very many with the things that said because it seemed that with the law permission was occurring to make something strange, and on the contrary, with the law a reality was being regularized that already existed. I - it assured then I wanted to give my testimony like daughter. I am 30 years old and from the 2 years alive with the same lesbian pair of my mother. I have two mothers and I know well clear that type of family I have. Never in no debate, neither in no magazine, nor in no article on the subject hij@s was spoken of l@s, that we existed and what we thought of that.

National panorama

But still seems that the things do not reach. In Argentina they wait for his treatment law projects that allow the adoption to homosexual pairs, and at level of the population the debate settles of tenuous or denying way. The clearest synthesis of feeling very general that is not proclaimed, not to be absolutely? progre? in? City more progre? of the country, Buenos Aires. A greater exercise does not let lack of imagination to know what happens in the rest of the provinces.

The prejudice and homofobia still are very strong, are put in the inconciente - Monsoon says. To accept the difference and to accept it in situations in where we handled ourselves with dogmas return violent. A violence that in the society and the routine character becomes silenciamiento, estigma, signalling.

In this frame to be lesbian mother implies one double demand: to take care of and to raise at the same time to the children and, to speak of its own sexuality so that they understand and they respect its election. A situation that is accentuated if the boys were born of a heterosexual pair, a case frequents less and raised publicly than the one of the election of the insemination in homosexual pairs.

Experiences

- Andrea (40) was ten years married with the father of his daughters of 8 and 3 years. The best thing than one can do with a son is to say the truth to them - it indicates and to be as one is. Everything went away naturally giving until the necessity to speak it but because arose she already knew it, she intuited it: it always is plus the prejudice of which the one of the other.

- Patricia (45) married very young and to the 18 years she had its daughter. When I separate of my husband it was not by a sexual question but because we could not maintain the ideal relation that we wanted. Later the life put to me in the situation to have the luck to enamor to me with a woman and affectively to be in a situation to play it to me? , it relates.

That pair had two children men: My daughter would be about ten years old and was then when one of the boys, the greater one, she said to him to her and to the brother: My mother and your mother are fiancèes. The truth first of all: The boys knew that something happened and requested an explanation on which he naturally occurred to the salary a relation from a love place and respect? , he indicates Patricia. Either? it was happened to me to request silence to him. Silence is not health although it chose to leave it in a scope of enough privacy that later shared with friends who are like their brothers? , she explains.

- For Andrea I raise was similar with its daughter greater than? it was frees in saying it to it to the friends although I said to him that to me she does not concern me what they think and they say, and that she was in her deciding to whom to tell him and to whom to say to him. To her I left it in freedom.

The figure of the father in these situations often synthesizes social feeling. To it breaks of the pair adds the estigmatización of the woman by its sexual election as it happened in the middle of July of this year in Murcia (Spain) where a judge cleared the safekeeping to him of its daughters to a lesbian mother with a failure where it forced - to maintain it the possession in choosing between its children or their present pair. For this judge, the homosexualidad of the mother harms them and? it increases the risk of which the minors also are it. A voice that speak of a line of thought still taken root in precursory countries like Spain of the rights in favor of the sexual minorities, and that caused orders of jury and sanctions that are in proceeding.

In the testimonies of this report, the situations were solved of the best way and in the private scope. For him it was difficult - he comments Andrea in relation to his ex- husband but always the tranquillity was prioritized and the well-being of the children because we know clearly that the divorce is of the pair, the boys continue having their father.

In the case of Patricia, the papa of its daughter? it collaborated much. It is a type with much amplitude and we followed wonderfully with a bond well. We put the accent in another place and that the trasmitimos to our daughter.

In as much, Monsoon from its own experience stood out that the children? they must make its own process and is necessary to give time them. In its case? recognition gesture? from its son it arrived when it was 25 years old and? he was stirring? , the psychoanalyst confesses.

Its son - who is going to make it grandmother in this month of November studied in EE.UU when the march became of the pride gay in New York. To the return to the country, he appeared by the house of its mother with a flag of the pride gay and in the hug of encounter a phrase that sealed the alliance: She is all either mother, all clear one and or. I cried like half an hour on the shoulder of my son because the opinion that mattered to me more was the one of him? , it says now.

The fault and the fears cross to the mothers at a first moment: fear to the rejection, to that they do not want more to it. Even? fault to sicken them by the deceit that exists of which the homosexualidad is a disease, a Biology of the destiny that trasmite? , it analyzes Monsoon.

A situation that crossed Andrea before its daughters. It appears the fear that pensás than vos later to your mother does not want more to you but querés because is your mother. The important thing is the respect and I show to him that there are different types from women who we can be enamored with women or men? , it indicates.

To Patricia, in as much, it served to him? what my mother said to me much when I was small. It separated to me very well what was the woman of which was the mother. I tried to be the mother of my daughter and not his older sister. I leaned in generating a bond from those limits and that allowed that it did not invade to me with planteos on my sexuality and of that she did not feel invaded by my sexuality.

The lesbian maternity puts in mirror dogmas and fear, prejudices and estigmas. It is certain that now it is spoken more of the subject but would say that is until by certain fashion but we are far from accepting the difference and still the forcing stays towards the different one, invisibiliza and the actions are conditioned? , it indicates Monsoon.

The patriarcal cultural load on the woman (beautiful, mother, asexuada; beautiful, puta, sexuada) leaves schemes before an installed reality.



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