Now, if y'all want to automatically suspect the sanity of the woman, she's a...professor of psychology...at UVa. Each of those characteristics taken separately means she's all f'ed up. 8^D
Here's a picture of "I am my kids' second Mom" Patterson:
Posted on 02/15/2005 12:47:58 PM PST by DBeers
(AgapePress) - Raising questions about a conflict of interests, a pro-family leader claims that the co-author of a 2002 study of the children of homosexual couples is not a researcher but a propagandist.
Joe Glover, president of the Family Policy Network in Virginia, said that he was puzzled by the work of University of Virginia professor Charlotte J. Patterson, who co-authored a study which claimed that the children of lesbian couples are as happy and well-adjusted as children living in traditional homes. In addition, the study recommended -- as steps toward "breaking down legal barriers to maintenance of parent-child relationships in families headed by gay and lesbian parents" -- repeal of all sodomy laws, legalization of same-sex "marriage" throughout the U.S., and legalization of adoption by same-sex couples as well as "second-parent adoptions" (adoption of the children of the other same-sex partner).
Such reforms, stated the report, "would extend to gay and lesbian parents and their children the legal protections that are now generally taken for granted by other families." In that report, titled "Children of Lesbian and Gay Parents: Research, Law and Policy," Patterson cited her own research extensively.
However, Glover did some research of his own, and discovered that Patterson is a lesbian in a relationship with a female partner, and the couple has three children between them. The pro-family advocate said Patterson has an obvious agenda and is using her title as a psychologist to put forth one-sided propaganda.
"She actually writes books on how lesbians can manipulate the law in order to have double adoption processes so they can create these lesbian so-called 'families,'" he said. Patterson, he added, is a radical homosexual activist "who has a clear agenda to redefine what a family is or should be."
In addition, according to an article in The Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Virginia), Patterson admitted that the study did not deal one of the most controversial issues -- whether or not kids raised in same-sex households were more likely to become homosexual themselves.
Those in favor of legitimizing same-sex families frequently gloss over or completely ignore this area of debate. For example, in a panel discussion at Tufts University, Dr. Ellen Perrin, professor of pediatrics at the Tufts-New England Medical Center, said the matter was not even a valid question.
"One of those questions that always gets asked is, 'What are these kids [raised in same-sex families] going to be?' I'm bothered by that question," she said, adding that "it's a homophobic question, because it doesn't matter" if a child turns out to be homosexual.
Perrin was instrumental in getting the American Academy of Pediatrics to change its policy to favor same-sex families.
Logic trumps emotional "fags suck" comments BUMP!
Anti-gay group run by heterosexual
Charging a conflict of interest, homosexuals accused Agape Press of being run by heterosexuals to promote their own pro-heterosexual agenda.
"The information disseminated by Agape Press is not to be trusted because the men who work for it put their penises in vaginas and are just looking to justify their lifestyle choice" said homosexual activist Leslie Bian.
Now, if y'all want to automatically suspect the sanity of the woman, she's a...professor of psychology...at UVa. Each of those characteristics taken separately means she's all f'ed up. 8^D
Here's a picture of "I am my kids' second Mom" Patterson:
[Patterson] and her colleagues based their research on a sample of 12- to 18-year-old adolescents from 88 families. The sample was drawn from a large national survey of American adolescents, the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. Forty-four of the study participants were parented by same-sex female couples and 44 were parented by opposite-sex couples. The two groups were matched by demographic characteristics such as age, income levels, social situations and other factors — with the exception of family type — to ensure the two groups were comparable.
On measures of their psychosocial adjustment and school results, such as grades and test scores, both groups had similar outcomes, and their adjustment was not affected by the type of family — whether same sex or opposite sex parents.
Because data for this study was drawn from those collected for a large national survey, the researchers encountered important advantages, Patterson said. First, participating families came from various parts of the United States, instead of from a single geographical area, as in most previous research. Second, the sample included participants from different racial and socioeconomic groups, and was more diverse than samples in most previous studies. Finally, because the data were originally collected for other reasons, the possibility of bias was minimized.
These strengths, Patterson said, add to confidence in the main findings that the quality of relationships within families are more important for adolescent development than whether parents have same-sex or opposite-sex partners.
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Now, I'm not ready to leap up and support the findings (which I believe are probably a little subjective, given that this is sociology and there are a lot of variables to evaluate when considering measures of their "psychosocial adjustment" and "school results"), but I'd have to find out more to this study to figure out if it WAS screwed up somehow. It certainly doesn't sound it in the UVa PR piece...but then, it's a Wahoo PR piece.
She's also written this 369 page whopper.
My only experience with a kid like this (i.e., one raised by two same-sex parents) is that the little guy was weirder than a grits-eatin' Yankee. Anecdotal evidence proves nothing, of course, but it predisposes me to want to see the methodology before I buy this or any other "same-sex kids are okay" study.
This is how an educated person says, "So what? And whatsit tuya?"
Since innocent children are involved, it's worth remembering that this mentality is one of the reasons why society invented police.
In other news, standup comedienne Paula Poundstone lost her guardianship of her adoptive children after being charged by her California authorities under a section of state law dealing with the commission of lewd acts on the person of a minor.
Even California still frowns on that kind of thing, so yeah, it does matter, and no, it isn't "homophobic".
The other thing to keep in mind is that, if the lesbian researcher is selling us a line, it's young kids who will pay the price for our believing her, and they will be our sad dataset when eventually the time comes to refute her with contrary evidence.
One is reminded that 70's feminists who insisted fiercely that women heading single-parent families could do just as good a job as a couple in raising children, were very wrong but never returned to claim responsibility for their errors or to help pick up the pieces of all the families that believed them.
Your love of homosexuality is evident on every post on the subject...
Actually, the clinical definition of "homophobe" describes a person who is marked by unreasoning dread and fear of homosexual persons -- who becomes, as it were, walleyed in their presence. Such a person is objectively disturbed.
In practice, however, "phobe" is just a smear-word used by the Left to mean, actually, people who dissent from their own POV, particularly people who object to homosexuality on moral, religious, esthetic, or instrumental (i.e. Straussian) grounds.
The word is used as an epithet, to curse, to belittle, and to dismiss. It's the homosexual Left's equivalent of "the N-bomb".
Blah Blah Blah -as a statistician I am not impressed by the garbage this study attempts to pass off as significant finding...Bias is the only thing driving this trash...
Human history has proven by default the heterosexual family -homosexuals are unable to breed; hence, no historical data is yet available to even attempt claiming equality.... A sample of 44 of each group is about as statistically significant as my opinion. The study is bogus... ONLY the ignorant and the homosexual activists lend such garbage credibility...
This perversionistic sickness has gone so far that just as communism
has failed, so shall they who dwell in the darkness of humanity.
May god bless those children into righteousness, and into condemning
the teachings of perverted minds.
Good article, clearsight.
Some others didn't think so, although I feel they have difficulty focusing on the topics and get distracted by other things on those web sites.
Actually those books were debunked by thousands of eye witnessess, millions of dead bodies, AND knowledge of the writers nazi sympathy's. What other conclusion would a nazi come to? What other conclusion is a homosexual going to come to?
To be more specific, one poses a single straight person responsible enough to take care of a child to fool the court.
What other conclusion is a pro-family advocate going to come to?
By the way, I get your point about not attacking the author straight away, and in less obvious circumstances I would completely agree. For instance, if this woman was not gay, and I didn't agree with the conclusion, I would then take the time to go into the data collected.
"Extensive testing has proven that testing works!"
LOL.
Heterosexuality = lifestyle choice = LOL
Get it? In order to justify homosexuality, Heterosexuality must be cast as a, "lifestyle choice". thats funny.
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