Sarah Jennings

Fiona L. Tasker

Laura Mellish

This report presents the key findings of the Gay, Lesbian and Heterosexual Adoptive Families: Family relationships, child adjustment and adopters' experiences study. The study was the first to examine families in the UK in which children live, from early childhood, with their adoptive gay fathers, lesbian mothers and heterosexual parents. The study focused on the quality of parent-child relationships, parental well-being and children's psychological development, with the aim of producing robust evidence.

Gay, Lesbian and Heterosexual Adoptive Families

The year 2019 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the National Arts Centre. In this new and revised edition of Art and Politics, Sarah Jennings covers the highs and lows of Canada's most important national performing arts institution over the course of five decades, bringing the story up to the present. Art and Politics is a riveting tale of Canada's finest musicians, actors, and dancers and efforts to put their art at the forefront of both the national and the international scene. Through over 150 interviews with artists, top officials, senior politicians, and others who affected the fate of the National Arts Centre, the book recounts the organization's early years; the impact of government monies first lavished and then withdrawn, which resulted in its near collapse in the late 1990s; and how over the past two decades, its CEO, Peter Herrndorf, a gifted leader, has brought it back from the brink. The most recent transformations revealed by this new edition include the architectural makeover of the organization's brutalist-style building in Ottawa, responses to the changing cultural milieu in Canada, and the launch of a national Indigenous Theatre Department in the fall of 2019. Told through the voices of those who created the organization, Art and Politics affirms that the National Arts Centre embodies its motto: "Canada is our stage."

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