This is probably correct but the sampling is too small to be of any use in any real argumentation.
There are at least four key questions that are unclear in the above summary, that you'd need to answer to know if there is any merit.
1) How were the study subjects selected? In other words, is the sample representative or would it tend to over-represent the homosexual children of homosexual parents?
2) Similarly, was this the primary objective of the study, or is someone extrapolating the alleged results from a tangential study, or is someone conducting a meta-study?
3) Were both parents homosexual (i.e., two lesbians or two gay men) or just one parent? If just one, was the homosexual parent actually out to the child, or did the child find out in adolescence or adulthood? Was it a mixed sampling (i.e., some respondents had a pair of homosexual parents and others had just one)?
4) There are transexual parents mixed into the small sampling, and you rarely, if ever, have two transexuals in a relationship. So, what was the other parent, and also when did the transexual parent change sex (i.e., was it before or after childbirth, perhaps even after the children were grown)?
So, there are really serious problems with evaluating this study from what's reported above, and even from that little it strikes me as a probably misconceived study. Not that this will stop some people from taking it as valid..
Well, I guess that's a lot more than 4 questions, but I suppose I meant there are a number of questions in 4 general categories that you'd need to answer before you can evaluate the merit of this report.
Do the sexual inclinations of parents influence those of their children? Of 77 adult children of homosexual parents who volunteered for three different investigations, at least 23 (30%) were currently homosexual: twelve (55%) of 22 daughters and three (21%) of fourteen sons of lesbians; five (29%) of seventeen daughters and three (17%) of eighteen sons of gays; none of six sons with both a gay and a lesbian parent. At least 25 (32%) were currently heterosexual. Of the ten with transsexual parents, one of nine daughters was currently lesbian, one was currently heterosexual, and one was transsexual. The son’s sexual preference was not reported. These findings suggest that parents’ sexual inclinations influence their children’s.
So, it seems clearly a meta-study of three separate studies presumably looking at other issues, and then therefore this was almost certainly not a representative sampling for the stated purpose at hand.
And, as a separate issue, this meta-study was submitted by Paul Cameron of the Family Research Institute - so there may be methodological objectivity questions as well.
YUP!
Considering the homosexual social experiment is something only recently evidenced; the fact that there are inherently small populations comprising objectively measurable and observable homosexual related 'things' e.g. marriage, adoption, raising children; AND that no long term study is possible UNTIL a long term of time has elapsed; -- One reasonably has to question the seemingly impossible legitimacy all the studies and research coming from the left that paint a rosy picture for all things homosexual.
YET -a majority of court decisions overturning common law, convention, and enacted law are handed down citing the studies and research coming from the left as basis. Very odd that homosexuality is favored -it seems far from random when statistically insignificant pro-homosexual studies and research is primarily favored?
It is as if there was an agenda... LOL
"This is probably correct but the sampling is too small to be of any use in any real argumentation."
I disagree - the results seem to be very statistically significant given the wide variation from the control.
It would be very difficut to assign these results to random error.
I agree. Not a stats person, but there are a lot more people they could have sampled. Why is the sample size so small? Something isn't right here.
All efforts will be made to block any larger studies. Dontcha think?