Posted on 04/27/2006 3:30:52 PM PDT by DBeers
COLORADO SPRINGS, Co., April 26 /Christian Wire Service/ -- A third of homosexuals’ children become homosexual. That’s the major finding from the largest study of adult children of homosexuals. Children of transsexuals were also more apt to become homosexual or transsexual. At least 23 (30%) of 77 adult children of homosexuals were homosexual and 25 (32%) heterosexual. Of 10 adults with transsexual parents, at least one became transsexual and another homosexual.
“Our society has been told by gays and professional associations that children were not more apt to become homosexual if their parents were. We’ve been told that genital mutilations by parents who pretend to be the opposite sex wouldn’t have any effect on their children,” said investigator Paul Cameron. “Too much bogus information about homosexual parents has been sold to the public. Most people think homosexual parents create an environment that stimulates homosexual desires in their children. We expect children to be confused when a father decides to pretend he’s a woman and demand that his family participate in his charade. The American Psychological Association and National Association of Social Workers have told court after court that common sense is wrong. They say foster care and adoption by homosexuals is absolutely harmless -- there is no correlation between children adopting homosexual tastes and the sexual proclivities of their parents. Examination of three published reports by pro-gay investigators shows the falsity of these claims. These professional associations seem more interested in pushing for social acceptance of homosexuality than what’s good for children.”
Almost all other estimates have been based on small samples of children and teens, not adults. At least 12 (55%) of 22 daughters and 3 (21%) of 14 sons of lesbians; 5 (29%) of 17 daughters and 3 (17%) of 18 sons of gays were currently homosexual. At least 25 (32%) were currently heterosexual.
Dr. Cameron is chairman of the Family Research Institute, a Colorado Springs, CO think-tank. The study is published on-line in the Journal of Biosocial Science 2006;38:413-418, sponsored by Cambridge University Press.
It should be alright for drugheads to give their kids drugs also. This is not about protecting children it is about the homosexual movement and teaching a generation of children to be degenerates. If a person cannot control their sexual desires it should be a defense to rape!
They had to do a study on this? Talk about the "duh" factor. Jeesh.
And this is why we MUST stop homosexuals from adopting children.
This is probably correct but the sampling is too small to be of any use in any real argumentation.
Nature? Or nurture?
Which came first - the chicken, or the egg?
Which is it - either? Or both?
Does the cause matter? Or is it the result?
I have noted that anything posted on FR that is associated with Dr. Paul Cameron always seems to be like a leftist troll lightning rod?
Hmmm... I can hope that will not be the case this time.
They aren't born that way. They are made that way.
Yes -children do model and imprint on behaviors e.g. alcohol abuse, cigarette smoking...
This is really heartbreaking, but certainly not shocking. The argument now will be that it shouldn't matter.
There are a surprising number of homosexuals on my mother's side of the family, and it's more than what one would statistically expect.
I have a butch lesbian cousin who is a major figure in the Philadelphia lesbian community. (My late mother had a cow when she came out of the closet.)
I have a closeted lesbian cousin who is waiting for her elderly parents to die before she comes out.
I have a cousin, two of whose four adult children are gay. The female is still closeted, but the male is in a long-time relationship with his drug dealer.
I have a male cousin who is a flamboyantly gay dress designer in New York.
When my uncle said at Christmas dinner that we had a history of homosexuality in the family, he didn't know the half of it.
(I was hetero the last time I checked.)
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.
I don't remember reading about homosexual adoption in the Bible. Then again, you may not be a Jew/Christian and you could be refering to another text. Please cite your source.
I'm going to call my Mom and thank her for:
a. not aborting me
b. being straight as an arrow
:)
You get alot of that when dealing with the left.
Do ya think? Nah..... I don't believe it .... LOL ...
Are you saying that you also have homosexual desires but that you control them? I admire your will power.
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.
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