[G Larry]

“functioning as well as...”

Consider that their yardstick is broken...

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

It is an essential aspect of the socialist-communist philosophy that "people are generic", that humans are somehow above 'biological constraints', and that all genetic and biological differences can be overcome with conditioning, training and indoctrination. To understand how utterly rigid this article of faith is with them, it is best to start with the "pure example" of "scientific" conditioning, the pseudo science of Trofim Lysenko of the Soviet Union. Lysenko believed, contrary to genetics, that wheat could be 'trained' to endure colder temperatures, by immersing the seeds in ice water prior to planting them. This so impressed Joseph Stalin, and was so supportive of socialist-communist theory, that he put Lysenko in charge of Soviet genetics research. Anyone who disputed Lysenko's theories would be fired or arrested. And thus the study of genetics in Russia came to a screeching halt. However, what would have been just folly when applied to wheat, became terribly tragic when applied to human beings. In neighboring communist Romania, for example, dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu directed that all orphan children, often orphaned by having their parents murdered, were to be raised by the state to become sociopathic secret policemen. Trained to be utterly ruthless, fearless, vicious, and obedient to their masters. Biology does not stand for such foolishness, however, and the vast majority of such children were "defective", incapable, unmotivated and stupid. A child raised in a normal family could run circles around them in any number of ways. The US is not immune to such nonsense, either. Even though there is voluminous proof that a nuclear family, with a husband and wife of similar ages, produce far better children consistently, the socialist-communist theory adamantly refuses to accept this idea. They are convinced that marriage is a social-religious contrivance of no value, that children can be raised collectively ("by a village", as Hillary Clinton would say), and that conditioning, training and indoctrination in schools can make them "equal", an idealistic, bizarre and unwholesome idea. The overall effort is to eliminate success and failure, with mediocrity being superior to either, and that in pursuit of "equality", it is far better that all are deprived of everything than that some have and some have not. This deprivation is also essential to the socialist-communist scheme of rationing *everything*, so that *everything* needed or wanted is provided equally by the state. This is because anything in abundance will quickly become a de facto currency, unbalancing the entire rationing scheme and allowing freedom of choice. The bottom line is that children raised by same gender parents are going to become for the most part social cripples in the future. Likely they will have a high rate of suicide, be unable to form social or relationship bonds, and otherwise be miserable and unhappy.

[Wurlitzer]

“American Psychological Association (APA) issued an official brief...”

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Anything written by these snake oil selling Flim-Flam artists should only be posted on “The Onion” or on the back page of Mad Magazine.

Their fascination with the deviant behavior of SSAD (Same Sex Attraction Disorder) individuals and their attempt to normalize their behavior exposes them for the frauds they will always be.

[Reddy]

COMMON SENSE will tell you that raising children without the benefit of having either a mother or father in their lives will result in a less than optimum outcome.

Children raised in broken homes at least have the advantage of being parented by the absent mother/father, if the parents decide to do their jobs and parent. But in a homosexual union, the children are intentionally denied access to a mother (male couples) or a father (female couples). It’s just bold-faced, law of nature wrong.

[neverdem]

Same-sex parenting and children’s outcomes: A closer examination of the American psychological association’s brief on lesbian and gay parenting

[Carry_Okie]

And in related news...

[xzins]

Since Romney supports gay couples adopting kids, I'm sure the Romney-Bots will be here shortly defending gay adoption.

Read the article, though. This is stunning, but plenty just as stunning:

•Samples did not include heterosexual comparison groups. Marks finds that "many same-sex parenting researchers did not use marriage-based, intact families as heterosexual representatives, but instead used single mothers." That is to say, outcomes for married, intact mom-dad families were not the basis for comparison in the research studies to the same-sex parents; instead, same-sex and single-mother households were compared.

[lepton]

It is interesting to note that the study finds a tendency for these studies to find that even with the benefits of highly educated wealthy (lesbian) parents, that the children appear to develop only as well as with a typical single mom - which suffer about a 10 point IQ drop and a host of other “quirks” and deficiencies compared to a typical heterosexual parented child.