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Is Gay Parenting Bad for the Kids? (Study: Children of gay couples are disadvantaged)
National Review ^ | June 10, 2012 6:00 P.M. | By Charles C. W. Cooke

Posted on 06/11/2012 8:25:46 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines

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To: Tanniker Smith
23% is more than 1 in 5. (20%) It's nearly 1 in 4. (25%)

MATHTEACHER

It's actually 23 in 100, it's nearly 24 in 100.

Statistician.

41 posted on 06/11/2012 9:44:45 AM PDT by USS Alaska (Nuke the terrorist savages, start today.)
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To: Reddy

Gay people tend to adopt (and may adopt out of foster care), which means that many of these disadvantages may be in place before the kids are ever in the gay household. For example, maybe these kids spent time in foster care before they were adopted by gay couples. Maybe they were abused by their biological parents before being put in foster care.

A better study would compare kids raised by gay couples to adopted kids raised by straigh couples.


42 posted on 06/11/2012 9:45:26 AM PDT by altsehastiin
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You don't need a study to tell you that. Innocent children deserve to be raised in wholesome environments. As homosexual relationships are inherently unnatural and unwholesome, children should not be exposed to such environments. Also, the risk of sexual molestation and abuse rises dramatically in homosexual relationships.
43 posted on 06/11/2012 9:53:28 AM PDT by Godwin1
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To: massgopguy
Let’s see O’Reilly spin this.

I'd rather see Mitt "spin it", after all he's in favor of queer adoptions.

44 posted on 06/11/2012 10:24:24 AM PDT by Graybeard58 (Obama versus Romney? Cyanide versus arsenic.)
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To: altsehastiin

That was my thought as well. The study should try to factor out the adoption aspect, or at least make steps to equalize the number of bio vs adopted children in the study. Otherwise, you have an indictment of any adoption.


45 posted on 06/11/2012 10:38:26 AM PDT by Burkean (.)
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To: MrB

Sure, there’s nothing wrong with being homosexual (per the libs).

I live for the day that the Homo Gene is identified, and with the lib penchant for selective abortions, most if not all infant homosexuals will be aborted.

Then what will the aged remaining homosexuals have to say as they watch homosexuals disappearing from the US, leaving them to be the dinosaurs of the homosexual community?

I bet they haven’t realized just what their support of abortion and selective abortion will do to them.

Yes, I live for that day.


46 posted on 06/11/2012 10:42:48 AM PDT by SusaninOhio
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To: USS Alaska

Very nice. Did you read the original post I was responding to? Or note that I was using a fake Closing HTML, not presenting my credentials? Just curious.


47 posted on 06/11/2012 11:13:44 AM PDT by Tanniker Smith (Rome didn't fall in a day, either.)
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To: SusaninOhio

Sure, you’ll see them flop on the issue, or make confusing statements, but to them, they’re being entirely consistent,

because abortion and homosexuality are simply a means to an end. The traditional family is the target for destruction, and even that’s a proxy attack on God Himself.

Every leftist policy can be shown to be detrimental to the family as an institution, and that’s not a coincidence.


48 posted on 06/11/2012 11:19:31 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: keats5

Secular school boards and politicians have signally failed to allow the verifiable dreadful consequences to affect their support of heterosexual promiscuity. One may assume that this is because the elected officials and a significant number of their constituents find traditional sexual morality personally constricting ... so, often literally, screw the children and their well-being.

In my opinion, it is not to be expected that any research showing harmful effects of homosexuality will make any difference in the vigor with which it is promoted by society’s major institutions.


49 posted on 06/11/2012 11:28:58 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Genetic testing of unborn babies: measuring the morality of our culture. (Wesley Smith)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

A while back two lesbians starved and beat their male child to death with electrical cords while their female children were well cared for.

http://www.armyofmom.com/2006/06/how-is-this-possible.html

Press was almost silent.


50 posted on 06/11/2012 11:43:51 AM PDT by Gabrial (The nightmare will continue as long as the nightmare is in the White House)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Reading the entire article, it is very balanced actually. It indicates that the major problem with same sex child rearing is that it probably entails more instability than a heterosexual family. The author actually says that the study is not an indictment of gay parents. Interesting, but clearly it blows away previous studies that show no effect or a net positive for the child.


51 posted on 06/11/2012 12:05:51 PM PDT by Paradox (I want Obama defeated. Period.)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
No, it means that nearly one in FOUR children of same-sex couples has/is abused. 23% is closer to 25 than 20. And when you consider unreported cases ...
52 posted on 06/11/2012 1:06:07 PM PDT by DeltaZulu
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To: LibertarianLiz
My experience, watching the media, is that they just won't cover it at all. It does not exist. It goes down the memory hole, because it doesn't fit the narrative/agenda.

That's right. They glamorize it - make it all about Broadway, dancing, singing, flitting about the stage, decorating and fashion. Aren't gay couples cute and funny - ha ha. They totally omit the dark, perverted sexual side of the life style.

53 posted on 06/11/2012 1:14:18 PM PDT by jersey117
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
It looks like NRO pulled the article.

It's still linked on the NRO home page but the link is a 404.

54 posted on 06/11/2012 1:41:20 PM PDT by 92nina
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To: 92nina

Try this:

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/302319/gay-parenting-bad-kids-charles-c-w-cooke


55 posted on 06/11/2012 2:17:30 PM PDT by LucyT
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To: 92nina

NR had some site problems today. The original link is up and still good.


56 posted on 06/11/2012 3:45:37 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
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To: nonsporting

When you factor in the parents who WANT their kids to also be homosexual or at least sexually promiscuous as teens, 23% is an incorrect figure. The indoctrination and pressure is in itself abuse.


57 posted on 06/11/2012 3:52:11 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Washington could not tell a lie, Nixon could not tell the truth, Obama can't tell the difference.)
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To: SusaninOhio
I live for the day that the Homo Gene is identified, and with the lib penchant for selective abortions, most if not all infant homosexuals will be aborted. Then what will the aged remaining homosexuals have to say as they watch homosexuals disappearing from the US, leaving them to be the dinosaurs of the homosexual community?

Then they will import their numbers from foreign countries (like Latin America and the Middle East) where religious tradition makes homosexuals "a persecuted minority". They will be given asylum, refugee status.

58 posted on 06/11/2012 3:54:32 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Washington could not tell a lie, Nixon could not tell the truth, Obama can't tell the difference.)
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