Posted on 01/15/2008 9:53:39 AM PST by the_devils_advocate_666
SAN DIEGO, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- Studies of lesbian and gay couples reveal some key factors that may promote healthier relationships in straight couples, a U.S. psychologist says.
Psychologist and researcher Robert-Jay Green of the Rockway Institute and of Alliant International University in San Diego says the studies of lesbian and gay couples found that the homosexual couples had flexibility about gender roles and an equal division of parenting and household tasks.
In a series of studies Green conducted with Michael Bettinger and Ellis Zacks, lesbian couples were found to be emotionally closer than gay male couples who, in turn, were found to be emotionally closer than heterosexual married couples.
"It all comes down to greater equality in the relationship," Green said in a statement. "Research shows that lesbian and gay couples have a head start in escaping the traditional gender role divisions that make for power imbalances and dissatisfaction in many heterosexual relationships."
Heterosexual couples could learn from gays couples about sharing housework and childcare, using softer communication in conflict and having more nurturing behaviors toward one another and their children, the researchers conclude.
You mean like, "I'll scratch your eyes out, bitch!"
Sorry, but no.
As Sam Kennison famously observed ‘How does a man look at another man’s hairy ass and find true love?’
This article is a pile of crap. Once again liberals telling us lies like the Boy Scouts are bad the deviants are good.
They never stop, do they?
America is in a handbasket...
By definition, I would imagine.
I don't think so.
This guy could learn from journalism school how to write a proper sentence. *gays couples*??
The rate of violence and abuse among the same-sex marriage set is said to be off the charts.
Because the traditional parts do match up?
Because it's the way humans procreate on the recreational level?
Because Rosie-O said so (traditional roles are bad)?
My wife makes dinner. I clean up and take out the trash.
Works for us. And I’ve never buggered another man!
They're not, by and large. They're only bad in SF, and when they fit a paradigm held by liberals.
Because women are as physically capable as men and men are as “motherly” as women.
Rockway Institute’s banner = “LGBT Research in the Public Interest”.
If you don’t know yet what “LGBT” stands for, you’re lucky.
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I'm sure glad to know that queers set the standard for healthy relationships, as well as raising and nurturing children. I guess that's why God set up things the way he did, with a man and a woman needed to create a life?
Anything to glorify the homosexual lifestyle.
We can learn what happens to society when we don’t follow natural pro-creation relationships.
"Parenting"??? That's a bullcrap propaganda term.
"Mother" is not the same as "Father", and the deliberate use of the sexless term "parent" is an attempt to cover that truth.
A pair of queers, by definition, are utterly incapable of giving children a home with bot a mother and a father. Some normal folk may fail (by negligence, or by injury or illness) to do so, but for normal folk the possibility is always there.
The Republic, at an end,
with a whimper and limp wrist.
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