"The research literature on childrearing by homosexual parents is limited. The environment in which children are reared is absolutely critical to their development. Given the current body of research, the American College of Pediatricians believes it is inappropriate, potentially hazardous to children, and dangerously irresponsible to change the age-old prohibition on homosexual parenting, whether by adoption, foster care, or by reproductive manipulation. This position is rooted in the best available science."
"Are children raised by gay parents worse off than other children? As same sex couples line up for marriage licenses in Massachusetts, the question achieves greater urgency.
Two researchers answered when they reviewed the available scholarly literature in the American Sociological Review three years ago. What makes their essay intriguing is that both professors Judith Stacey and Timothy J. Biblarz are emphatically in favor of gay marriage and child-rearing. Being honest scholars, though, they could not accept the tendentious spin that others in their field have put on the available research. They deny that the studies show "no difference" between children raised in gay and lesbian homes and those raised in heterosexual homes...
Biblarz and Stacey examined 21 studies of "lesbigay" couples' children compared with heterosexual parents' children. While all of the researchers had claimed to find "no difference" in outcomes between the two groups, Biblarz and Stacey disagree. There are statistically significant differences in gender identity, sexual experimentation and promiscuity...
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Those poor guys are gonna need a very big e-mail box....
It doesn't take a brain surgeon--or a pediatrician--to figure that out: it's basic common sense. Unfortunately, basic common sense is something that is sorely lacking in today's society.
Isn't that the agenda - raise the kids to be homo's/create more homo's? This whole gay adoption thing sickens me and makes me ashamed to be an American. Homosexuality is a disease.
"increased risk of mental health problems, including major depression, anxiety disorder, conduct disorder, substance dependence, and especially suicidal ideation and suicide attempts."
Not surprising. Serious question here. Is there any correlation between homosexuality and hyper behavior / tendencies? Every gay person I have ever encountered through out my life versus hetero's have all displayed various stages of hyper behavior, mania, ocd like behavior, addiction potential which down the road panned out. There must be a link with being gay and hyper-neurosis, right? It can't be a coincidence.
The American College of Pediatricians has recently come out with a paper discouraging the rearing of children in homosexual households.
A ray of hope.
How many years before the American College of Pediatricians falls to political correctness?
I say...10
Homosexuality should never have been removed from the DSM4...IMO.
I'm confident the NYT's will feature this story above the fold on their front page tomorrow./sarcasm
A ping and a bump to read later.
That term describes homosexuality rather well
read later
Excellent find. I'm putting it in the database before I forget.
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Hmmm...sounds familiar...
Vatican launches counter-strike against gay marriage, adoption
Amid increasing worldwide initiatives to grant legal recognition to same-sex unions and a growing acceptance of gay and lesbian people and their parenting, the Vatican called on global lawmakers to offer "clear and emphatic opposition" to efforts to codify "gay marriages," which it said were contrary to human nature and ultimately harmful to society.
"Not even in a remote analogous sense do homosexual unions fulfill the purpose for which marriage and family deserve specific categorical recognition," the document said. "On the contrary, there are good reasons for holding that such unions are harmful to the proper development of human society, especially if their impact on society were to increase," it said.
In a 12-page document released July 31, the Vatican also expressed alarm at moves to allow gay couples to adopt children, which it said would be a form of "violence" against children and "gravely immoral."
The report notes that "...current studies that appear to indicate neutral to favorable results from homosexual parenting have critical flaws such as non-longitudinal design, lack of proper controls, and failure to account for confounding variables."
It seems to me, Ed, that the drive to homosexual family formation has three wellsprings, which I list in what I am guessing is their order of (declining) importance,
1. The desire for a posterity, which is shared with the straight breeder community,
2. More equivocation, i.e. recrimination of the "we can so too!" variety, about gays' typically (in the past) not forming families, and therefore not participating in a large segment of the rest of society's life; and as a further rebuke to, and polemical jamming of, straight society's messages about values, child-rearing and family formation,
3. The desire for trophies of a particular kind, as an extension of other forms of gay display.
I think the latter two (skewed) motives could be counted among the "confounding variables" mentioned in my quote.
I like this statement:
"Adolescents and young adults who adopt the homosexual lifestyle, like their adult counterparts, are at increased risk of mental health problems, including major depression, anxiety disorder, conduct disorder, substance dependence, and especially suicidal ideation and suicide attempts."
Great that a professional organization - The American College of Pediatricians - has not kowtowed to the the radical homosexuals!
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For this they needed a study?