Posted on 04/29/2015 6:56:04 AM PDT by Academiadotorg
This year, a Catholic University sociologist published a study of the children of same-sex parents that runs counter to much of the happy talk on the subject emanating from academia.
“In the past two decades dozens of studies have concluded that children with same-sex parents fare as well or better than those in opposite-sex families on a wide range of outcomes related to child well-being and emotional health,” . D. Paul Sullins wrote in a study which appeared in January. “So consistent and well-publicized has been this finding of “no differences” that it has been presented as a settled conclusion in judicial proceedings and public policy and professional settings.”
“Recently, however, two developments have called this finding into question: Detailed critical reviews that have exposed substantial weaknesses in many of the studies of the same-sex parenting, and the emergence of studies designed to overcome those weaknesses which claim, not without controversy, to have discovered poorer outcomes on some measures for children in same-sex families.”
Sullins’ own study, “of 207,007 children, including 512 with same-sex parents, from the U. S. National Health Interview Survey” found that “for children with same-sex parents” “Emotional problems were over twice as prevalent.” His results appeared in the British Journal of Education, Society & Behavioral Science.
Sullins concluded that “Joint biological parentage, the modal condition for opposite-sex parents but not possible for same-sex parents, sharply differentiates between the two parent groups on child emotional problem outcomes. For child well-being the two groups differ by definition. Intact opposite-sex marriage ensures children of the persistent presence of their joint biological parents; same-sex marriage ensures the opposite. Further work is needed to determine the mechanisms involved.”
Watch the researcher end up in jail on a hate-crime charge.
People who view the world through a politically correct prism are chronically deluded.
‘fare as well or better’
Yeah, right. Science has been corrupted by Libs. IS THERE ANYTHING THEY HAVEN’T POLITICIZED???
Oops.
Or just disappear down the memory hole.
“Totally unexpected.”
The biggest flaws I've seen in these pro-gay studies are
1. Self-reported results. "Are you gay and have kids? Tell us how they're doing!" Of course those results will be skewed toward those with happy kids.
2. Small sample size. Out of the entire population of gays, there is such a tiny, tiny sliver that have kids and stick with a relationship for a significant amount of the child's development. Despite what is portrayed on TV, gays tend not to have the stable relationships that straights do.
Translation: ""Mommy" and "Daddy" keep touching me..."
IOW, roughly 1 in 1,000 or roughly the same percent of voters who cast a ballot for Virgil H. Goode, Jr. of the Constitution Party in the last presidential election.
“for children with same-sex parents” “Emotional problems were over twice as prevalent.”
Hmph. Drama queens raise drama queens. Who knew?
There are thousands of self-selected studies, where only happy gay families show up and say we’re just as good. It is only recently that we have large data sets and sociologists willing to parse it that we get true random samples and thus valid comparisons of same-sex families to married mother father ones, and the results are not so rosy.
High school graduation rates among children of same-sex households
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11150-013-9220-y
Summary: girls raised by gays and boys raised by lesbians have high school graduation rates as bad or worse than single mothers
Child Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorderv (ADHD) in Same-Sex Parent Families in the United States: Prevalence and Comorbidities
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2558745
Summary: ADHD was more than twiceas prevalent among children with same-sex parents than in the general population, after controlling for age, sex, ethnicity and parent SES.
How different are the adult children of parents who have same-sex relationships? Findings from the New Family Structures Study.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23017845
Summary: Compared with off-spring from married, intact mother/father homes, children raised in same-sex homes are markedly more likely to…
Experience poor educational attainment
Be in counseling or mental health therapy (2xs)
Suffer from depression (by large margins)
Have recently thought of suicide (significantly)
Identify as bisexual, lesbian or gay
Have male on male or female on female sex partners (dramatically higher)
Currently be in a same-sex romantic relationship (2x to 3x more likely)
Be asexual (females with lesbian parents)
As adults, be unmarried; much more likely to cohabit
As adults, more likely to be unfaithful in married or cohabiting relationships
Be sexually molested (both inappropriate touching and forced sexual act)
Be unemployed or part-time employed as young adults
As adults, currently be on public assistance or sometime in their childhood
Live in homes with lower income levels
Have frequency of arrests
Have pled guilty to minor legal offense
2% of the general population, 30% of the TV and Arts population.
The study needs to differentiate between same sex couples that adopt and those that “create” a biological child in-vitro.
Many(not all) of the traits you listed are not uncommon to kids adopted out of the foster care system - and would be tough to blame on the adoptive parents orientation.
I’m convinced that anyone that supports their sham ‘marriages’ hates children. No sane person would put a child into that situation.
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