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Tuesday, 12 June 2012
A new study on same-sex parenting shows Mom and Dad are still what's best for kids
Children who grow up in a stable household with a mother and a father generally turn out better than kids who don't. Hardly a controversial statement, right?
Wrong. Because it challenges homosexual orthodoxy, and therefore it must be discredited. Never mind that the research is statistically sound and has been rigorously and objectively peer-reviewed. It's anti-gay, and thus de facto evidence of a right-wing plot.
"I know children of gay parents and they're perfectly well-adjusted!" seems to be a common refrain. (Obviously they're not talking about the little boys Frank Lombard and his homosexual partner adopted though.) And I know the child of a lesbian couple who's a total mess. Nevermind the heterosexual families which couldn't be mistaken for The Brady Bunch.
So what. Anecdotes aren't particularly relevent. And they're not useful for promulgating public policy. Just because you can drive home after drinking two bottles of wine doesn't necessarily mean everyone can.
And it turns out that all the prior "research" into same-sex parenting was fatally flawed due to small sample sizes and skewed by self-selecting participants. For statistics to be meaningful you need two things, a large enough population of data, and a reasonable degree of randomness.
Which is precisely the methodology used by University of Texas—Austin sociologist Dr. Mark Regnerus when he set out to study the effects of same-sex parenting. His New Family Structures Study (NFSS) provides the most representative picture to date of young adults whose parents had same-sex relationships. NFSS is a large, random, nationally representative sample.
The results are hard to ignore.
The NFSS surveyed young adult respondents about their own relationship history and quality, economic and employment status, health outcomes, abuse history, educational attainment, relationship with parents, psychological and emotional well-being, substance use, and sexual behaviors and outcomes.
Compared to young adults in traditional, intact families, young adults whose mothers had a same-sex relationship tended to fare worse than their peers in intact biological families on 24 of the 40 outcomes examined. For example, they were far more likely to report being sexually victimized, to be on welfare, or to be currently unemployed.
Young adults whose fathers had a same-sex relationship showed significant differences from their peers in intact families on 19 of the outcomes. For example, they were significantly more likely to have contemplated suicide, to have a sexually transmitted infection, or to have been forced to have sex against their will.
These differences take into account the respondent's age, race/ethnicity, gender, mother's education, perceived family of origin's income, whether or not the respondent was ever bullied, and the legal status of same-sex relationships in the respondent's current state of residence. In other words, the study compared respondents who were identical on these characteristics, except for parental relationship status.
There's a reason that nature (and God) placed both a man and a woman into the default family structure. It's best for the children.
New-age pseudo-families with single parents, step-parents, absentee-parents, and same-sex parents can't match the inherent advantages of a stable family where mom and dad factor equally into their children's lives.
We shouldn't need a scientific study to tell us that.
Posted at 15:32 by Chris Wysocki
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