The hardships and complications faced by same-sex parents don't seem to be confined to the biological/adopted labels. LBGT parents also face stereotypes in regard to gender and parenting that may play move into unknown ways in same-sex custody situations. It’s no secret, as an example, that some family and tribunal judges are called judges favoring the fathers while others are believed to favor mothers. In truth, most judges strive for impartiality in every legal action, but these judges are human, and may be subject to ingrained biases that even the judge might not know is existent.
In the same vein, same-sex and LGBT couples usually neglect well-trodden custody concepts like one parent being a “primary caregiver” while the opposite acts because the“primary jobholder”. For several couples, neither party occupies the clear role of caregiver vs. wage earner. However, in many other LGBT situations, each parent abundantly having a conventional role of child-rearing vs. income generation, whether or not the fogeys don’t match traditional gender stereotypes.
