La qualità delle interazioni triadiche nelle famiglie lesbo-genitoriali: uno studio pilota con la procedura del Lausanne Trilogue Play

Objective: The aim of the study was an exploratory research about the quality of the triadic
family interactions across homo-parental families, in which the parental couple is composed by two women. The objectives have been: a) to investigate the quality of the triadic interactions of lesbo-parental families, by identifying specificity stings of strength and/or weakness; b) to compare the quality of lesbian headed families interactions with the data emerged by the literature on the triadic interactions in “traditional families” (Favez, Lavanchy Scaiola, Tissot, Darwiche, Frascarolo, 2010). Method: 10 lesbian headed families procreating through medically assisted procreation (IVF) have participated belonging to a not clinic population and recruit through associations and web sites devoted to homosexual couples and homo-parental families.
The quality of the triadic interactions has been valued through the Lausanne Trilogue Play (LTP; Fivaz-Depeursinge e Corboz-Warnery, 1999). The biological mothers have a mean of 34.4 years (SD = 5.85), not biological mothers have a mean of 36.6 years (SD = 7.69), and children have a middle age of 28.3 months (SD = 22.08). No significant differences was found on T-test analysis about children ages. Results: The collected data show good reliability of the LTP coding to discriminate the quality of the family interactions in comparison to different typologies of families. The comparison among the lesbian headed families group with the data of the research of Favez et al. (2010) on three groups of families (hetero-parents, with depressed mother, hetero-parents recurrent to Medically Assisted Procreation) has shown only meaningful differences with the clinical group. Conclusions: The emerged data seem to underline that the quality of the family triadic
interactions is not influenced by the composition of the family. The LTP procedure is able to discriminate the different interactive base typologies of families, with particular reference to those in which a parent manifests clinical symptoms. Otherwise the lesbian headed families appear characterized by a level of triadic iteration closer to hetero-parental families. The present study refers to a different legislative reality from the Italian; we hope that more research can also be developed in the Italian context stimulating the attention of the researchers.