Teens with Same-Sex Parents as Normal as Peers

Ruetrers ^ | 11-16-2004 | Alison McCook

[siliconpatriot]

This report is troubling in that it suggests same sex parents are fine for raising children.

44 "families" is not nearly a large enough sample size to get a true reading on it.

Plus, it says nothing about the development of the sexual orientation of these kids.

It's actually very sad in my opinion. And another attack on the NORMAL family.

[Klickitat]

Look at the source.

[CondorFlight]

I'd be very cautious about accepting reports like this. The results in surveys of social behavior are often distorted by those doing the survey, in order to prove one particular thesis or another. (Look at the famous Kinsey report, for example, which was an outrageous manipulation of data, skewed to support Kinsey's own theories.)

[xcamel]

"As reported in the journal Child Development, the investigators found that, overall, teens with parents in same-sex relationships appeared to have relatively high levels of self-esteem, little anxiety, few signs of depression, and to do well in school."

I think this is the exact line used in Jeff Dahmers scool transcrips

[Colosis]

Growing up with freaky pervert parents - yeah, that's normal.

[MegaSilver]

44 "families" is not nearly a large enough sample size to get a true reading on it.

As in all fields, there are those in psychiatric/psychological circles who like to speak for the entire field, and of course the media latches on to them, especially if it fits their politically correct ideology.

[TFine80]

I wonder if boys raised by lesbians would be more or less prone to violence... Could swing either way.

[detsaoT]

Can anyone find out where the funding for this pile of poo came from? I'm pretty perterbed that a UVA professor led it - What a sad state of affairs Jefferson's great old college must be in if this is the level of research they've sunk to.

[Lurking2Long]

One small difference was noted, however, in that the boys with two same sex male parents appeared highly uncomfortable when asked to sit down to be interviewed...

[Prime Choice]

This ranks right up there with the greatest Leftist lies, starting with Khruschev's "We will bury you!" proclamation.

[Grampa Dave]

Charlotte J. Patterson has been pushing this putrid Gay agenda since at least 1990. She has the same believability of any left winger.

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=Charlotte+J.+Patterson+Gay&ei=UTF-8&xargs=0&pstart=1&b=11

[Norman Bates]

Define "normal." Impossible to do in regards to a human being. We are just too complex. And since parents are the primary influence, don't tell me that a boy seeing his mom kissing his other "mom" everyday is a good influence on him. Think about it...

[Piers-the-Ploughman]

Silicon,

this is a crock of you know what, on the shelf right next to John Kerry's crock analyses. We simply can't believe everything we read, especially when it goes against common sense. Given how strange and insecure homo/lesbian relationships are, it is impossible to believe this.

[Wonderama]

Only the left could deny that kids don't need a mom and a dad. It's so obvious, you have to have gone to graduate school to come up with that inanity.

[randog]

Saying that these teens aren't any different from normal teens isn't saying much--they're all CRAZY!!

Seriously, I don't think the problems will crop up until later in life when they develop serious relationships with other people. How can you be a good (male) father when your parental role model was two dykes?

[CBart95]

So what? Who cares? We're sick of all this justification of abnormal lifestyles.

[k2blader]

Homosexuality is not normal, moral, or healthy, and it never will be.

[BunnySlippers]

The NY Times (of all people) did a long article about 2 girls who were raised by a lesbian couple. The result was exactly the opposite of what this article purports. Plus children of same sex parents have a huge propensity to experiment with same-sex sex.

The two girls in question struggled with their own sexuality, one becoming a lesbian ... the other not sure but dresses and acts like a drag queen.

[siliconpatriot]

I agree with you all. Good points. I'll single this line out as the one that makes my head spin the most... One study of teenagers raised by divorced lesbians found they had similar self-esteem as teenagers of divorced heterosexual parents, and appeared to fare better if their mothers had a partner living at home, their fathers were supportive of the relationship, and they learned of their mothers' orientation when they were relatively young. If divorce wasn't already bad enough... now we have "divorced" LESBIANS to contend with!!!!!!

[Jim_Curtis]

I wonder why they settled for merely "as normal", they probably didn't want to push their luck.

You only need to get the experts of your choosing ( or choose the people you want to claim are "experts" ) into that position where they get to determine what normal is and you can get any results you want for your study.