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   What does a chosen family offer?

   • What a "chosen family" offers, and how to foster yours. When family of origin can force a choice between authenticity or connection, chosen family often offers both. Chosen family demonstrates that there is no extraordinary love reserved for family. We can extract, a la carte, functions we like best from “family” and apply these to chosen family.

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   What is a chosen family?

   • In the book Families We Choose: Lesbians, Gays, Kinship, cultural anthropologist Kath Weston defines chosen family as consisting of “friends, partners and ex-partners, biological and non-biological children, and others who provide kinship support.”

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   What is the difference between family of origin and chosen family?

   • Family of origin can mean emotional drag, authenticity or connection, while chosen family offers authenticity and connection. Alex came from a Catholic family of origin “obsessed with the idea of normal.” Though they came around, they didn’t accept his sexuality or gender at first.

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   Why is a chosen family important?

   • A chosen family can be part of a person’s growing network, and can help construct a wide foundation of support that continues to grow with time. The importance of “chosen family” in many of our lives is reflected in the kinds of policies that have been implemented in communities around the country.

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2. www.identiversity.org › what-makes-a-familyLGBTQ Family | Families of Choice | Identiversity

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   What makes a family? It depends on who, when and where you ask. Learn about the meaning of family for the LGBTQ+ community.

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   Jun 14, 2019 · In the book Families We Choose: Lesbians, Gays, Kinship, cultural anthropologist Kath Weston defines chosen family as consisting of “friends, partners and ex-partners,...

   • Author: Jeremy Nobel, MD, MPH

4. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov › pmc › articlesConceptualizing “Family” and the Role of “Chosen Family ...

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   Mar 25, 2021 · The conceptual flow of defining family in the LGBTQ+ refugee setting highly and explicitly incorporates the concept of choice or independent construction of the ideal family in an alternate home setting. The conceptualization of family in the concept graph resonates with the study by Weeks et al. [ 4 ].

   • Author: Seohyun Kim, Israel Fisseha Feyissa
   • DOI: 10.3390/healthcare9040369

   • Publish Year: 2021
   • Publication: Healthcare (Basel). 2021 Apr; 9(4): 369.

5. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov › pmc › articles“We Just Take Care of Each Other”: Navigating ‘Chosen Family ...

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   Oct 8, 2020 · “Chosen family” is a term employed within queer and transgender (Q/T) communities to describe family groups constructed by choice rather than by biological or legal (bio-legal) ties.

   • Author: Nina Jackson Levin, Shanna K. Kattari, Emily K. Piellusch, Erica Watson

   • Publish Year: 2020

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   Nov 27, 2023 · Key points. When family of origin can force a choice between authenticity or connection, chosen family often offers both. Chosen family demonstrates that there is no extraordinary love reserved ...

7. www.psychologytoday.com › us › blogCreating Your Second-Chance Family of Choice - Psychology Today

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   Feb 11, 2022 · A second chance family-of choice is the people we get to choose to be in our lives versus who we are forced to be around when we’re young. They are...

8. www.improvingmipractices.org › family-choiceFamily of Choice | Improving MI Practices

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   Family of Choice. Definition: Not to be confused with family of origin, a family of choice is just that: chosen family. Sometimes a family of origin may be so dysfunctional it contributes to an individual’s struggles rather that serving as a healthy source of support.