@article{ref1,
title="Between vulnerability and resilience: parents of transgender young adults",
journal="Family Process",
year="2021",
author="Tsfati, Maya and Nadan, Yochay",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="This study explores the lived experiences of Israeli parents of transgender young adults, depicting gender diversity as a family-relational phenomenon. The analysis of 18 in-depth, semi-structured interviews with Israeli parents of trans young adults suggests that the parents' experiences were characterized by a dialectic between feelings of vulnerability and resilience. The parents' vulnerability was shaped by their social positioning as a minority group as well as their socio-political environment, and their ability to cope with these hardships enhanced their resilience. As the parents developed their resilience through meaning-making, social support, and activism, they gained a new sense of agency alongside a deep sense of vulnerability, suggesting that vulnerability and resilience are not objective, opposite binaries but rather fluid categories that are continually constructed through the intersection of micro- and macro-level factors.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0014-7370",
doi="10.1111/famp.12678",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/famp.12678"
}