Same-sex Adoption: Not as Harmless as Portrayed

American Thinker ^ | August 27, 2014 | Enza Ferreri

[right-wing agnostic]

You may often see articles in the media claiming that "research has shown" that children of same-sex couples are thriving, in fact are physically and psychologically doing just as well as, or even better than, children of couples who are -- let me use this currently underused word -- normal.

Are these works reliable?

In July such a study, carried out in Australia, was much trumpeted by that pillar of "progressive" thinking, the Washington Post, under the headline "Children of same-sex couples are happier and healthier than peers, research shows".

Researcher Simon Crouch and his team at the University of Melbourne surveyed 315 homosexual parents with a total of 500 children across Australia.

Crouch writes:

We found that children from same-sex families scored, on average, 6% better on two key measures, general health and family cohesion…

In spite of doing well, many children did experience stigma, which was linked to lower scores on a number of scales.

In short, when children perform well it's due to same-sex parenting. When they perform not so well, it's due to stigma against same-sex parenting. A win-win situation for homosexual agitators.

But this apparent bias in the interpretation of the results is not the only, or even the main, problem with this study.

The method used in the Australian Study of Child Health in Same-Sex Families (ACHESS) is the biggest obstacle to taking its outcome seriously.

[DuncanWaring]

For anyone not familiar with this “study”, be aware it’s performed by a male homosexual.

[C. Edmund Wright]

what a shock….

[manc]

so a male h9mosexual does this and writes about it.

For decades there has been studies done to show that having a mother and father in the household helps kids more than a single parent , but now the homosexuals want us to think having two guys is OK for kids.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

After raising three boys to adulthood, I would LOVE to adopt a little girl. :)

but, does that make me gay, or a homophobe or a racist or something?

I’m so utterly confused these days...

[C. Edmund Wright]

well yes, the truth is obvious…..common sense, human nature. Then again, liberalism is the practice of politics that misapprehend human nature

(damn, that was good….I just made that up)

[CharlesOConnell]

‘Gold standard’ study’s striking findings: children of heterosexual parents happier, healthier

The most scientifically credible studies show that children of heterosexual parents fare better on numerous indicators of personal well-being than children of homosexual parents. Authored by Mark Regnerus, a sociology professor at the University of Texas at Austin, the study was published in the July 2012 issue of Social Science Research.

• Children of lesbian mothers are nearly 12 times (≅ 1200%) as likely to say they were sexually touched by a parent or adult as those raised in intact biological families. Asked if they had ever been raped, 31 percent of those raised by lesbian mothers and 25 percent of children raised by gay fathers answered yes, compared to 8 percent of those from intact biological homes.
• Twenty percent (20%) of those raised by lesbians and 25% of those raised by gay men reported having contracted a sexual transmitted infection, compared to 8% of those raised by their biological parents.
• Twelve percent (12%) of those with a lesbian mother and 24% of those with a gay father reported having recently contemplated suicide, compared to only 5% raised by an intact biological family or a single parent.
• Nineteen percent (19%) of those raised by a lesbian mother or gay father were currently or recently receiving psychotherapy, compared to 8% of those raised by their heterosexual parents.
• Twenty-eight percent (28%) of those of working age raised by a lesbian mother and 20% of those raised by a gay father reported being currently unemployed, compared to 8% raised by an intact biological family and 13% raised by a single parent.

Regnerus’ findings conflict with studies widely touted by homosexual activists which have claimed that children raised by homosexual parents fare as well or even better than their peers. Many of these studies, Regnerus points out, have relied on small, self-selected samples, parent rather than child reported outcomes, and have exhibited evidence of political bias.

Regnerus drew his data from the New Family Structures Study, a data collection project that drew from a large, random sample of American young adults. This study is one of the few that measures outcomes as reported by the children of homosexuals, rather than relying on an assessment by the homosexual parent.

Children from same-sex households much less likely to graduate high school: large study

Girls living in “gay” households are only 15 percent as likely to graduate compared to girls from opposite sex married homes.

A large-scale study by Douglas W. Allen, professor of economics at Simon Fraser University, has found that children in same-sex households were only 65 percent as likely to graduate from high school as those living in traditional opposite sex marriage families.

Adverse Family Experiences Among Children in Nonparental Care, 2011–2012

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

And pray tell, what would the consequences be if the study was found to a complete and total fabrication? Kind of like Michael Mann’s study.

Most likely, the UN would step in, undertake a multi-billion dollar worldwide movement to bolster the false results, allow 2-3 genocides to occur resulting in the deaths of perhaps 5 million people, while arguing they were working for the children. There would be demands for new taxes, restrictions upon heterosexual films, books, websites, new tariffs on all those “oooh, baby” tunes from the fifties, unless they were hippy love tunes from the 60’s, but tariffs would kick in again for 70’s, 80’s, 90’s love songs that apparently implied heterosexualism, and then general relaxation of tariffs on tunes from about 2008 on because Dear Leader was elected then so long as the vocals were waif-like pubescent gals or out-of-tune Cocoa-boy meterosexual types chanting about how worried they are about stuff and things, or, they could be violent Gangsta rap or Nikki Minaj sex tunes coz da YouEnn be down wit dat.

[ansel12]

Here is the libertarian position on gay adoption.

1.4 Personal Relationships
Sexual orientation, preference, gender, or gender identity should have no impact on the government's treatment of individuals, such as in current marriage, child custody, adoption, immigration or military service laws. Government does not have the authority to define, license or restrict personal relationships.

[BenLurkin]

Homosexuals should never be allowed around children.

[liberalh8ter]

Yeah, being the children of lesbians worked out really well for these kids

[KC_Lion]

Enza, I didn’t know you wrote for the American Thinker!

[Blood of Tyrants]

Homosexuals won’t even admit that the “gay lifestyle” reduces the lifespan of men by 8-20 years. Now they cherry pick gay couples with children to “prove” that children of gay parents are better off than children of hetero parents.

[1010RD]

The Father of Lies has helpers who operate along similar lines.

[logic101.net]

Not all homosexuals are pedophiles, but a shocking percentage of pedophiles are homosexual.

[SuziQ]

They’re trying hard to normalize their chosen lifestyle.

[NetAddicted]

Can someone explain the last paragraph to me?

[NetAddicted]

Great links.

[NetAddicted]

I’m amazed they’re only 16 responses to this so far.

[Morpheus2009]

Reminds me of when I watched the two season series based on Stephen King, entitled, “Under the Dome”. The girl named Alice, is noticeably confused, well with two “moms” and I am not even sure either was the biological mother, then the “father” whom you rarely see, then there’s being sent off to boarding school quite often, it’s no wonder that she wants to hang out with the Boy named Josh, my mind would be overloaded with all that puzzling information to process in there.