Media Kit
RADIO, PODCASTS, TV APPEARANCES
Podcast interview, Open Adoption Project, “Adoption through a scholarly lens with Professor Abbie Goldberg,” 9/25/23.
TV interview, WESH 2 (Orlando, FL), “Project Unity: Pride in Florida”, 6/28/23
TV interview for NBC-WESH 2 (Orlando), “Human Rights Campaign declares state of emergency after new Florida laws signed (wesh.com),” 6/7/23
Radio interview, WUSF News/WLRN 91.3/NPR segment, “LGBTQ parents think of moving from Florida, citing laws that target their children,” 4/12/23
Podcast interview, Challenge. Change. podcast, “What LGBTQ parents say when told ‘Don’t Say Gay’ with Professor Abbie Goldberg,” 3/26/23
TV interview for WJAR/NBC 10 News, “Effective treatments are available for postpartum depression, psychosis,” 1/27/23
TV interview for NBC Boston/NBC 10 News, “Shock, heartbreak after in Duxbury after kids allegedly killed by their mother,” 1/25/23.
Podcast interview, EdCast, CUNY TV, “It’s okay to say gay: Speaking with children about sexual identity and gender,” 9/20/22
Podcast interview, Creating a Family (with Dawn Davenport), on teachers and adoption, 7/20/22.
Podcast interview, “How To Talk to Kids About Anything” (with Dr. Robyn Silverman), 5/2/22
Podcast interview, “Pulled By The Root” (with Heidi Marble), 4/1/22.
Podcast interview, “Creating a family” (with Dawn Davenport), on LGBTQ adoption and foster care, 12/15/21.
Radio interview, Channel Q’s Let’s Go There with Shira Lazar and Ryan Mitchell, on trans inclusion in colleges, on 5/3/21.
Podcast interview, “The research, data, and stories behind open adoption: An interview with Dr. Abbie Goldberg,” Adopting.com’s “The Long View” with Lori Holden, 12/15/20
Radio interview, GBH 89.7’s In it Together (with Arun Nath), on divorce and COVID-19, 12/14/20
Radio interview (live), Doctor Radio (SiriusXM 100), “About Our Kids” show, 6/14/19
Radio interview, Maryanne Live’s Realtime Relationships, “LGBTQ marriage…and divorce,” May 2, 2019.
Featured in Lovecomesfirst.com docuseries about LGBTQ parenting, 2014.
Radio interview for NoBullying.com, “Abbie Goldberg on all aspects of bullying,” October 31, 2013.
Radio Interview, NPR/WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show, “Gay dads,” August 8, 2012.
Expert/Participant, online forum on LGBT parenting, In the Life Media (with Zach Walls, Nadine Smith, and Dana Rudolph), May 16, 2012.
Research featured on CBS “The Talk,” January 18, 2012.
Radio Interview, KSKA Anchorage, Alaska Public Radio, Line One: Your Health Connection, “Gay and lesbian parents and their children,” December 3, 2012.
Radio Interview, Blog Talk Radio’s “Read My Lips” (with Bonnie Graham), “Gay dads and adoption,” October 15, 2012.
Radio interview, Children of Freedom with Alaksandra Dynko, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Inc (Belarus), “Children of lesbian and gay parents,” November 18, 2010.
Radio interview, NPR/WFCR’s “Morning Edition” (88.5 FM, Amherst, MA), “Study examines lesbian families,” June 9, 2010.
Radio interview, WTTC-FM Springfield, “Lesbian and gay parents and their children,” April 27, 2010.
Interviewed for Chicago Parent, “Gay parents will count in 2010 Census,” by Liz DeCarlo, March 23, 2010.
Radio interview, NPR/WFCR’s “Morning Edition” (88.5 FM, Amherst, MA), “Challenge to California’s Proposition 8,” February 18, 2010.
Podcast, The Human Rights Campaign, “Lesbian and gay parents,” December, 2009.
Radio interview, Sisterstalk Radio, “Lesbian and gay parents and their children,” November 22, 2009.
Radio interview, Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption and Infertility (national radio show), “Adoption and the LGBT community,” October 21, 2009.
Guest appearance, WGGB ABC News 40, Springfield MA, “Lesbian and gay parents and their children,” October 12, 2009.
Radio interview, The Bill Dwight Show, WHMP Northampton MA, “Lesbian and gay parents and their children,” August 19, 2009.
Radio interview, Midweek Politics with David Pakman, WXOJ Northampton MA, “Lesbian and gay parents and their children,” July 15, 2009.
Guest commentator, Washington Post Radio, “Research on gay parenting,” December 14, 2006.
Radio interview with Abigail Garner, Fresh Fruit, KFAI Radio Minneapolis, “Children of gay parents.” September, 2005.
NEWSPAPER, MAGAZINE, AND PRINT MEDIA INTERVIEWS
Interviewed for Q Salt Lake, “Two dads, good job,” 9/8/23
Interviewed for Education Week, “’Don’t Say Gay’ law has some Florida parents considering moves out of state,” 8/14/23
Interviewed for Washington Examiner, “Democrats want to flee Florida over ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law, GOP urges ‘perverted exodus,” 8/9/23
Research discussed in New York Times opinion article, “LGBTQ Americans could become a ‘new class of political refugees,” 6/14/23
Study discussed in Washington Post article, “Dwayne Wade and the toll of anti-trans rhetoric,” 4/27/23
Quoted in The Bump, “What LGBTQ parents can do for a better pregnancy experience,” 3/28/23
Quoted in Rolling Stone, “We exist”: Wellesley trans students say it’s not just a women’s college,” 3/17/23
Quoted in The Bump, “What to know about postpartum psychosis,” 3/16/23
Quoted in Pink News, “Florida lawmakers introduce cruel bill to ban preferred names and pronouns for trans kids,” 3/2/23
Interviewed for Parents, “How to find an LGBTQ+ inclusive daycare,” 2/23/23.
Interviewed for USA Today, “A mom is accused of killing her 3 children. It sparked a national conversation about postpartum psychosis,” 2/15/23
Interviewed for MassLive, “Lindsay Clancy tragedy highlights mental health stigma, barriers to support,” 2/10/23
Interviewed for the 19th, “More than half of Florida queer parents have considered fleeing the state in the wake of Don’t Say Gay, study finds,” 2/9/23
Interviewed for the 74, “Survey: More than half of Florida LGBTQ parents are thinking about moving,” 2/9/23
Interviewed for Parents magazine, “I’m a postpartum survivor—but I could have been Lindsay Clancy,” 2/1/23
Interviewed for the Connecticut Post, “Experts: Former CT resident Lindsay Clancy, accused of killing kids, may have suffered postpartum psychosis,” 1/30/23
Interviewed for the Boston Globe, “It’s hard to be a new mom. For some, a lonely struggle can spiral into mental illness,” 1/28/23
Interviewed for New York Daily News, “Over half of LGBTQ parents surveyed in Florida considered leaving state over ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law,” 1/25/23.
Book (“LGBTQ Family Building: A Guide for Prospective Parents”) included in Greater Good’s Best Books of 2022, 12/21/22
Book (“LGBTQ Family Building: A Guide for Prospective Parents”) included in Q Salt Lake’s Holiday Gift Guide, 11/23/22.
Interviewed for The Street, “A guide to lesbian divorce and retirement,” 7/25/22.
Interviewed for Healthline, “Understanding the gender binary,” 6/23/22.
Interviewed for Teen Vogue, “LGBTQ people on hope after thoughts of suicide,” 5/12/22.
Interviewed for PsychCentral, “What I wish more people knew about queer parenthood,” 5/9/22.
Interviewed for The New York Times, “Separated but under the same roof,” 4/1/22.
Interviewed for PsychCentral, “How Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill could impact LGBTQ youth mental health,” 3/11/22.
Interviewed for PsychCentral, “Texas AG makes inaccurate claims about hormone therapy for trans youth,” 3/1/22.
Interviewed for Metro Weekly, “President Biden slams Florida’s so-called Don’t Say Gay bill,” 2/9/22; Letter to Editor also printed in Florida Today (2/21/22).
Book featured in Publisher’s Weekly Family matters: Parenting books 2022, 1/21/22.
Interviewed for Salon, “What makes some people hold transphobic views?” 1/17/22.
Interviewed for 19thnews, “Anti-trans bills hurt mental health for two-thirds of LGBTQ+ youth,” 1/10/22.
New website featured in Mombian, “New Resource for Parents and Teachers to Make Schools More Inclusive of LGBTQ+ Families – Mombian,” 12/13/21.
Research featured in New York Magazine, “She supported her child being trans. So the state separated them,” 12/15/21.
Interviewed for PsychCentral, “LGBTQ youth report more bullying and suicidality, but affirming schools an help,” 11/19/2021.
Interviewed for PsychCentral, “Deadnaming: How using the wrong name can affect mental health,” 11/15/21.
Interviewed for Chegg Life, “How to tell if a college campus is trans-inclusive (chegg.com),” 10/11/21.
Interviewed for the New York Times, “How same-sex parents share the mental load,” 8/25/21.
Featured in Publisher’s Weekly, Trans Encyclopedia Breaks Ground (publishersweekly.com), 8/3/21.
Author, The Conversation article, “How to tell if your college is trans inclusive”, 4/30/21.
Interviewed for PEOPLE magazine article, “What happens when coparents disagree about their children’s coronavirus health plan?,” 1/19/21
Interviewed for Parentology article, “New research about LGBT parenting released,” 9/17/20
Interviewed for Shondaland article, “Facing discrimination when adopting in America,” 6/29/20
Interviewed for Slate article, “Myka Stauffer and the aggressively inspirational world of ‘adoption influencers,’” 6/4/20
Author, The Conversation article, “I’ve been following families in open adoptions for 15 years, observing adoptive parents’ struggles to tell painful origin stories with kids,” 5/26/20. Article featured in Yahoo! News, Seattle PI, Houston Chronicle, Lebanon Express, and other outlets.
Interviewed for Worcester Telegram article, “Pandemic having profound effect on mental health,” 5/17/20
Interview featured in Huff Post Canada article, “How co-parenting has equipped queer families to handle the coronavirus pandemic,” 4/24/20
Research featured in the New York Times article, “How to make your marriage gayer,” 2/13/20
Author, Boston Parents Paper article, “Open adoption and diverse families,” 12/2/19
Author, Oxford University Press article, “Connecting families through open adoption,” 11/26/19
Interviewed for Well+Good’s, “LGBT discrimination denies 400,000 children the unconditional love of family,” 11/11/19
Authored books featured in Mombian’s “Books for children and adults about LGBTQ adoptive families,” 11/1/19
Research featured in the New York Times, “Texas father says 7-year-old isn’t transgender, igniting political outcry,” 10/28/19
Research featured in The Washington Post, “A Texas man says his 7-year-old isn’t transgender. Now his custody fight has reached the governor’s office,” 10/24/19
Interviewed for the Atlantic, “When ‘you’re adopted’ is used as an insult,” 7/25/19
Interviewed for the New York Times, “Heather has two mommies is still relevant 30 years later,” 6/26/19
Interviewed for the UCLA Newsroom, “Navigating the new landscape of LGBTQ divorce,” 5/30/19
Interviewed for the Financial Times, Chore wars: “Why do women still do more housework?:, May 9, 2019.
Radio interview, Maryanne Live’s Realtime Relationships, “LGBTQ marriage…and divorce,” May 2, 2019.
Interviewed for the Advocate magazine, “Are queer people making marriage better?”, March 21, 2019.
Featured in the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, “’Pink wave’ panel at Clark explores strides women are making in politics”, March 20, 2019.
Interviewed for the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, “Clark University psychologist co-edits book on LGBTQ divorce,” February 14, 2019.
Interviewed for the Boston Globe, “New book explores LGBTQ couples and divorce,” February 6, 2019.
Interviewed for U.S. News & World Report, “Gay dads and their kids still face social shaming,” January 15, 2019.
Interviewed for Refinery29, “What it’s really like being trans or gender nonconforming at a women’s college,” November 20, 2018.
Interviewed for the New York Times, “Can there really be two moms?”, October 25, 2018.
Interviewed for the Daily Hampshire Gazette, “Valley activists urge ‘yes’ vote on Question 3,” October 11, 2018.
Interviewed for the UCLA Newsroom, “Navigating the new landscape of LGBTQ divorce,” May 30, 2019.
Interviewed for the Financial Times, Chore wars: “Why do women still do more housework?:, May 9, 2019.
Interviewed for the Advocate magazine, “Are queer people making marriage better?”, March 21, 2019.
Featured in the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, “’Pink wave’ panel at Clark explores strides women are making in politics”, March 20, 2019.
Interviewed for the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, “Clark University psychologist co-edits book on LGBTQ divorce,” February 14, 2019.
Interviewed for the Boston Globe, “New book explores LGBTQ couples and divorce,” February 6, 2019.
Interviewed for U.S. News & World Report, “Gay dads and their kids still face social shaming,” January 15, 2019.
Interviewed for Refinery29, “What it’s really like being trans or gender nonconforming at a women’s college,” November 20, 2018.
Interviewed for the New York Times, “Can there really be two moms?”, October 25, 2018.
Interviewed for the Daily Hampshire Gazette, “Valley activists urge ‘yes’ vote on Question 3,” October 11, 2018.
Interviewed for Huffington Post Canada, “Coming out to your kids can be intimidating, but it doesn’t have to be,” September 24, 2018.
Interviewed for University Business, “Accommodating transgender students on college campuses,” September 17, 2018.
Interviewed for North Dakota State University’s The Spectrum, “Including transgender students,” August 30, 2018.
Interviewed for The Daily Beast, “Under Trump and DeVos, trans students face ‘spiritual violence’ at religious schools,” August 17, 2018.
Interviewed for Real Simple, “How to split household chores so everyone shares the work,” July 31, 2018.
Interviewed for Inside Higher Ed, “More than just bathrooms,” July 25, 2018.
Interviewed for the New York Times, “How same-sex couples divide chores, and what it reveals about modern parenting,” May 16, 2018.
Interviewed for the New York Times, “Some LGBT parents reject the names mommy and daddy,” April 26, 2018.
Interviewed for Chicago Tribune, “How gay dads manage without paid paternity leave,” September 26, 2017.
Interviewed for Women’s Health magazine, “Can dads get postpartum depression too?”, August 9, 2017.
Interviewed for Fox News, “Trump announces ban on transgender individuals serving in the military”, July 26, 2017.
Interviewed for The New York Times, “Kentucky judge, citing conscience, declines to hear same-sex adoption cases,” May 2, 2017.
ted book featured in The Daily Beast, “There is so much in, and so much missing from the LGBT encyclopedia,” April 23, 2017.
Research featured in Worcester Patch, “Clark professor’s LGBTQ studies encyclopedia named ‘Best Reference Title’”, April 5, 2017.
Interviewed for Vice, “Uncovering the Christian think tanks behind the bogus studies on gay parenting,” February 16, 2017.
Interviewed for Child & Family Blog, “Three year old boys raised by lesbian mothers show less masculine behavior—but that changes as they grow older,” December 21, 2016.
Interviewed for Clark Alumni Magazine, “America’s climate change,” December 21, 2016.
Interviewed for El Espectador, “Arguments against gay adoption are not scientific,” August 27, 2016.
Interviewed for Go Local Worcester, “Central MA experts’ advice for back to school sanity,” August 20, 2016.
Interviewed for Social Science Space, “A milestone for the mainstreaming of LGBTQ studies,” August 8, 2016.
Interviewed for Christian Science Monitor, “Foster child case: The path of gay rights in conservative Utah,” November 14, 2015.
Interviewed for Yahoo.com Parenting, “Man decides to raise brother after mom accuses him of ‘making him gay,” September 25, 2015.
Interviewed for the New York Times, “Back to school worries for gay parents,” September 7, 2015.
Research featured in Education Week, “5 ways schools stigmatize same-sex and heterosexual adoptive families,” August 7, 2015.
Interviewed for US News and World Report, Health Day News, “More evidence that kids of gay parents do just fine,” August 4, 2015.
Interviewed for Washington Times, “Ranks of gay dads increase as same-sex marriage spreads,” June 22, 2015. (Associated Press article; also ran in the NY Times and other outlets)
Interviewed for the Atlantic, “Using ‘pseudoscience’ to undermine same-sex parents,” February 19, 2015.
Author, Huffington Post guest blog for Motherwoman,“New moms and depression: Where to go? What to do? Whom to call?” February 18, 2015.
Interviewed for Parents magazine, “6 adoption tips for same-sex couples,” April 22, 2014.
Author, Huffington Post blog, “How biology matters when same-sex couples with kids split up,” October 12, 2013.
Interviewed for Massachusetts Child Psychiatry Access project newsletter, “Parental depression after adoption,” September 2013 Vol. 2 No. 9.
Interviewed for New England Psychologist, “Postpartum depression studied in ‘invisible sexual minority’ women,” August 21, 2013.
Interviewed for Edge, “New study: No difference between gay and straight adoptive parents,” July 24, 2013.
Quoted in LGBTQ Nation, “It’s not about gay parents, it’s whether a family is happy,” by Rob Watson, July 15, 2013.
Interviewed for teleseminar, hosted by the Practice Institute, “What we know about gay parenting,” July 9, 2013.
Interviewed for the Sacramento Bee, “Gay parents embrace openness,” June 16, 2013.
Author, Huffington Post blog, “Gay parents in red states: Not an oxymoron,” May 30, 2013.
Interviewed for the LA Times, “Salt Lake City has highest rate of same-sex couples raising kids,” May 21, 2013.
Interviewed for Worcester Telegram, “Clark professor receives NIMH grant,” May 12, 2013.
Author, Huffington Post blog, “Want to know how kids with gay parents feel about marriage equality? Ask them.” April 1, 2013.
Interviewed for The Advocate, “The new lesbian dad,” April 8, 2013.
Interviewed for GoLocalWorcester, “Clark prof garners national attention for research on gay marriage,” March 9, 2013.
Interviewed for The Atlantic, “How do children of gay parents feel about getting married?” March 4, 2013.
Interviewed for Orange County Register, “Scouts step back from divisive decision on gays,” February 5, 2013.
Interviewed for Christian Science Monitor, “Will change on gays allow Boy Scouts to recapture role in society?,” January 29, 2013.
Author, Huffington Post blog, “Beyond dolls vs. trucks: How children of same-sex parents may be less constrained by gender stereotypes, and why it matters,” Dec 3, 2012.
Book (Gay dads: Transitions to adoptive fatherhood) reviewed in the Washington Blade, September 26, 2012.
Book (Gay dads: Transitions to adoptive fatherhood) excerpted in The Advocate, September 4, 2012.
Interviewed for All About Psychology, “Interview with Dr. Abbie Goldberg,” August 10, 2012.
Interviewed for Its Conceivable, “A talk with gay parenting researcher Abbie Goldberg,” July 10, 2012.
Interviewed for Windy City Times, “New book provides insight into adoptive fatherhood,” June 5, 2012.
Author, Beyond Blood: Families of Our Making, Psychology Today blog (April 2012-July 2013)
Research featured in Huffington Post, “A giant leap for lesbians,” March 1, 2012.
Interviewed for Keen News Service, “Children with LGB parents: Youthful perspectives on marriage,” February 3, 2012.
Interviewed for Mombian, “I’ll say it again: Lesbian and gay parents are not better, just different,” January 24, 2012.
Interviewed for MSNBC, “Why gay parents may be the best parents,” January 15, 2012.
Interviewed for The Adoption Mosaic, “A conversation with adoption researcher Abbie Goldberg,” by Kelly Jeske, Summer 2011 volume, pp. 16-17.
Interviewed for Keen News Service, “Warning: Anti-gay states may be hazardous to your health,” February 12, 2011.
Research featured in The Rainbow Times, “New APA research on gay and lesbian parents and their children,” February 10, 2011.
Interviewed for AOL News, “Study: Gay parents more likely to have gay kids,” October 17, 2010.
Interviewed for Chicago Parent, “Gay parents will count in 2010 Census,” March 23, 2010.
Interviewed for Bay Windows, “Trial shows best interests of kids lies with marriage equality,” February 9, 2010.
Interviewed for Keen News Service, “Gays, Blackwater, and aborigines?” January 9, 2010.
Interviewed for About.com: Lesbian Life, “Research supports gay and lesbian parenting: Interview with lesbian and gay parenting expert,” January, 2010.
Op Ed, Cherry Grrl, “What can we learn from lesbian and gay parents?” November 23, 2009; also run in the Bay Area Reporter, December 3, 2009.
Review of Lesbian and gay parents and their children: Research on the family life cycle, by Dana Rudolph, Bay Windows, November 9, 2009.
Interviewed for The New York Times Magazine, “The way we live now: What’s good for the kids,” November 8, 2009.
Interviewed for USA Today, “Gay couples: This modern family is growing in numbers,” November 5, 2009.
Interviewed for The National Catholic Reporter, “Experience, research refute arguments of same-sex opponents,” October 29, 2009.
Review of Lesbian and gay parents and their children: Research on the family life cycle, by Neal Broverman, The Advocate, October 28, 2009.
Interviewed for Preview Massachusetts, “Abbie Goldberg: A lens on gay and lesbian families,” by Sarah Buttenweiser, November 2009.
Lecture and book signing, Impish, Thorne’s Market, “Lesbian and gay families” (with M. V. Lee Badgett), October 22, 2009.
Interviewed for The Daily Hampshire Gazette, “A conversation with psychologist Abbie Goldberg: Gay and lesbian parenting – what the studies show,” by Suzanne Wilson, July 22, 2009.
Interviewed for The Pulse magazine article, “Focus on faculty: Abbie Goldberg”, February, 2009.
Interviewed for Hoy/Tribune newspaper article, ¿Padres del mismo sexo? no hay por qué alarmarse (Parents of the same-sex: Why not to be alarmed), by Laura Pagliaro, August 25, 2008.
Guest author, Nontraditional Family Law blog, by Laurie K. Redman, LLC, “Why research matters: A perspective on LGBT research,” January 3, 2008.
Interviewed for Rainbow Rumpus magazine article, “MyLight project explores the experiences of transracially adopted youth,” by David Seitz, November, 2007.
Interviewed for Bay Windows (New England’s largest newspaper serving the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered communities) article, “From the ivory tower to the family room,” August, 2007.
Interviewed for Rainbow Rumpus magazine article, “Real life, real impact: Dr. Abbie E. Goldberg,” August, 2007.
Interviewed for Boston Parents Paper article, “See us as a family: Gay parents forge ahead despite ‘marriage’ dispute,” by John Crawford, July, 2007.
Interviewed for Boston Globe article, “Same-sex couples face unique adoption hurdles,” March 26, 2006.