[highlander_UW]

"To say, 'Oh, because you're gay you can't or you shouldn't be able to raise a child,' that is horrible," said Karen Brown, a mother who gave her daughter up for adoption.

Of course she can say this because she doesn't care about the child she gave up for adoption.

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But the American Academy of Pediatrics said that a growing body of scientific literature shows that children who grow up with one or two gay and or lesbian parents fare as well in emotional, cognitive, social and sexual functioning as do children whose parents are heterosexual.

Here is a link to a document that addresses the "growing body of scientific literature":

No Basis: What the Studies Don’t Tell Us About Same-Sex Parenting

A 129 page Adobe Acrobat document:

Executive Summary

It is routinely asserted in courts, journals and the media that it makes “no difference” whether a child has a mother and a father, two fathers, or two mothers. Reference is often made to social-scientific studies that are claimed to have “demonstrated” this.

An objective analysis, however, demonstrates that there is no basis for this assertion. The studies on which such claims are based are all gravely deficient.

Robert Lerner, Ph.D., and Althea Nagai, Ph.D., professionals in the field of quantitative analysis, evaluated 49 empirical studies on same-sex (or homosexual) parenting.

The evaluation looks at how each study carries out six key research tasks: (1) formulating a hypothesis and research design; (2) controlling for unrelated effects; (3) measuring concepts (bias, reliability and validity); (4) sampling; (5) statistical testing; and (6) addressing the problem of false negatives (statistical power).

Each chapter of the evaluation describes and evaluates how the studies utilized one of these research steps. Along the way, Lerner and Nagai offer pointers for how future studies can be more competently done. Some major problems uncovered in the studies include the following:

• Unclear hypotheses and research designs

• Missing or inadequate comparison groups

• Self-constructed, unreliable and invalid measurements

• Non-random samples, including participants who recruit other participants

• Samples too small to yield meaningful results

• Missing or inadequate statistical analysis

Lerner and Nagai found at least one fatal research flaw in all fortynine studies. As a result, they conclude that no generalizations can reliably be made based on any of these studies. For these reasons the studies are no basis for good science or good public policy.

Four Appendices follow. Appendix 1 is a bibliography of the studies and related publications. Appendix 2 is a table that summarizes the evaluation of each of the studies with regard to each research step. Appendix 3 (by William C. Duncan) is an overview of how these studies have been used in the law. Appendix 4 (by Kristina Mirus) describes how the media has covered these studies.

[sweetliberty]

"...protects the rights of gay couples to adopt a child."

When did adopting a child become ANYONE'S "right?" I think you would find a lot of normal heterosexual couples who have been unable to adopt for whatever reason that would challenge that any such "right" exists. What about the rights of the children? Or is it only perverts who are supposed to have rights now?

[garylmoore]

It is sad but I commend them for sticking to their belief and not putting children in harms way.

[after dark]

>"If they love to give let them?"

That quote takes the cake.There are many cruel women who do not care about the children they produce ,but in the context of the article she seems to convenient. The adoption market is full of stable, heterosexual, married infertile, would be parents.So naturally, the anti children crowd want to give children to overcompetitive gay ,political activists.The arrogance is astonishing. I have never met a gay man who could replace a good mother.

[Bommer]

"We find ourselves in a conflict," said the Rev. Bryan Hehir from Catholic Charities. "The religious, moral principles of Catholic teaching and practice clash with the political and civil regulations of the state."

Don't know why they just don't tell them to phuck off. Separation of church and state! Since the church can't get into your business, you can't get into ours!

[longtermmemmory]

The don't mention that FL's 11th circuit case upheld the direct prohibition of homosesexuals adopting children.

There are a couple of facets to this issue.

1. Homosexuals adopting children.
2. Homosexual sex partners adopting the childre also called second parent adoptions by homoadvocates.
3. Restrictions placed on adoptions which effectively exclude homosexuals. IE you must be married to adopt a child.

27 states do not allow or prohibit homosexual sex partners from adopting
6 states prohibit or restrict homosexuals from adopting children.

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It is closing because of pressure from the Catholic Church, which opposes the Massachusetts law that protects the rights of gay couples to adopt a child.

More biased reporting. They're closing because the state is forcing them to give kids to people who shouldn't have them.