Children of Gay Couples

For the first time, a collection of testimonials gives voice to the children of lesbian couples. Sixteen of them answer the questions many people ask: does living without a father pose a problem? Do children of gay couples necessarily become gay or lesbian? Do their families share the same values as others?The interviewees were aged between eleven and thirty-one. They were conceived either by insemination or during previous relationships. Today, they are students, police officers or producers. They have agreed to confide in us their joys, their worries, their troubles, their hopes and the way others look at them. Kolia Hiffler-Wittkowsky, the 21-year-old who initiated the project and compiled the testimonials, is studying philosophy at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Lyon. She herself was conceived within a lesbo-parental framework.