Posted on 07/05/2016 9:20:42 AM PDT by fwdude
Are the kids really all right? The popular2010 movie about a lesbian couple and their teenage children conceived by artificial insemination suggested that they were, and that the ups and downs of a lesbian family were just like those in a normal heterosexual family. There was nothing unusual about the type of behaviour the kids displayed or the mental states that went with it.
Many academic studies of same-sex families have arrived at the same conclusion. A new study finds that children with same-sex parents even had a slightly lower rate of depression in their mid-teens than their peers in general. But that, unfortunately, is the sole nugget of good news for the “no differences” theory in this study: by the age of 28 the same individuals were more than twice as likely (2.25 times) to suffer depression as the general run of their peers.
(Excerpt) Read more at mercatornet.com ...
Excellent writer for American Thinker. A persecuted academic.
Yes, much higher than those raised in natural families. But the degenerates don't see that as a bad outcome, unsurprisingly.
They even try to fall back on the discredited "gay gene" theory, saying that since they have some genetics in the game (in the case of surrogacy), they most likely passed that onto their children.
Maybe the term community is not perfect here—he knows many, many grown gay-raised people, and gathered their stories together. These adults are under great pressure to toe the line of happy-happy gay family narrative.
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