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<h1><b><font size=5 color=black face="Arial Black"><span style='font-size:16.0pt;
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font-weight:bold'>Tuesday 31<sup>st</sup> July 1.30-2.30pm<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<h3><b><font size=4 face="Arial Black"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Arial Black"'>Children of lesbian and gay parents - what do they
really need?<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></h3>
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color=black face="Arial Black"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p align=center style='text-align:center'><st1:PlaceName w:st="on"><b><font
size=2 face="Arial Black"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black";
font-weight:bold'>Professor</span></font></b></st1:PlaceName><b><font size=2
face="Arial Black"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black";
font-weight:bold'> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Charlotte</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Patterson</st1:PlaceName><br>
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of <st1:State w:st="on">Virginia</st1:State></st1:City>, <st1:country-region
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<h5><b><i><font size=2 face="Arial Narrow"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>The Presenter<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></b></h5>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Professor Charlotte Patterson is a developmental
psychologist, known internationally for her research on the development of
children being raised in gay/lesbian families. She was among the first to conduct
a systematic investigation of preschool and elementary children born to openly
lesbian parents. She is in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Australia</st1:country-region>
as a guest of the Institute for Advanced Studies at <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">LaTrobe</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>, and was a keynote speaker
at the recent Rainbow Families symposium at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Melbourne</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>.
<a href="http://www.virginia.edu/facultyexperts/expert.php?id=390"
title="http://www.virginia.edu/facultyexperts/expert.php?id=390">http://www.virginia.edu/facultyexperts/expert.php?id=390</a>
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color=black face="Arial Narrow"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow";
font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>Abstract</span></font></i></b><b><font
size=2 face="Arial Narrow"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow";
font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Professor
Patterson will present an overview of 25 years' research on children who have
grown up with lesbian and gay parents. This research debunks common myths that
children need one mother and one father and that children are somehow
disadvantaged growing up in lesbian and gay parented families. It presents the
real outcomes for children in families, bringing into focus the fundamental and
critical contributors to healthy child development. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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email </span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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