Posted on 07/11/2012 9:30:39 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
Allegations of scientific misconduct have prompted the University of Texas to investigate a professor's study that found adults with gay parents reported significantly different life experiences than the children of married, heterosexual biological parents.
The study, authored by associate professor of sociology Mark Regnerus, made a splash when it was published last month in the journal Social Science Research. It has since drawn criticism from scholars at UT and elsewhere.
Bucking the consensus of the past decade of scholarship that the sexual orientation of parents does not negatively affect children in consequential ways Regnerus found that adults with gay parents tended to report lower levels of success in economic and romantic pursuits and struggled more with mental health issues.
The university began the inquiry after New York City freelance writer Scott Rosensweig, who uses the byline Scott Rose and writes about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues for a blog called "The New Civil Rights Movement," sent a letter of complaint to UT President Bill Powers on June 21. In his letter, Rosensweig alleged that Regnerus had committed scientific misconduct because he had created "a study designed so as to be guaranteed to make gay people look bad, through means plainly fraudulent and defamatory." Rosensweig also pointed out that the study was funded by the conservative Witherspoon Institute and the Bradley Foundation, writing that Regnerus had taken "money from an anti-gay political organization for his study."
It has been comprehensively established that the optimal family structure for raising children is with both biological parents present. You simply can't have that with two 'parents' of the same sex, even leaving their messed up sexual practices aside, unless there is a third person in some weird threesome which pretty much never happens.
This reminds me of a few decades ago before feminists totally discredited themselves by supporting sexual predator Clinton when they insisted that there were no fundamental differences in male and female athletic capabilities, etc.
I think you mean Moynihan.
The obvious issue is that anyone raised by two mentally ill “parents” will have more problems than someone who isn’t; they should have softened the results by saying children raised by two heterosexual lunatics show the same outcomes as children raised by two “gay” lunatics...
“It has been comprehensively established that the optimal family structure for raising children is with both biological parents present.”
The left’s problem with this is that it is clear that nobody will love and care for children more than their parents who made them, and the left would prefer the state to have the parenting role.
Wow! I wonder how the parents of the two girls adopted from China at my church would react to that?
When you question a Politically Correct theory you wil always be attacked.
Queers are on the move, get in their way and they will try to destroy you.
It amazes me that so many Straight people seem to have an affinity towards their perversions.They accept their sexual nuances as normal. The sick, pathetic, confused, sexuality of homosexuals is actually seen as something to be accepted casually,not as the vile—growing— hazard to families that it is.
You were a prophet, Joe.
The thing which is so obnoxious now about the gay agenda is that they openly and blatantly will not allow any refutations, any counter-theories: They want to completely shut down all debate and discourse about a very, very dubious lifestyle.
Not only do they insist on silencing the opposition but seek to punish after silencing. Truly facist. Paglia was right when she wrote “Gay Stalinism”.
They now seek to criminalize any conversion therapy which would help young people to get out of the homosexual lifestyle: They have begun with California, and will not let up until it is federal law.
I was at an ice cream parlor in one of many uber-liberal corners of Massachusetts 2 weeks ago. I saw two adopted boys with their two moms and these kids looked absolutely shellshocked. They were in their early teens. I felt so sorry for those two kids.
No studies will be allowed that show that homosexuality is a mental illness or that it causes societal ills.
One study that I’d like to see that won’t ever be done is the correlation between childhood abuse, especially sexual abuse, and the tendendy to be homosexual.
I don’t think it is so much the sex acts of homosexual parents that cause the problem with children raised by homosexuals as the fact that these parents are, by definition, unconventional. I am no scientist, but simple observation of children whose parents are “different” in an observable way would likely disclose that they will not fit into society as well as children of “normal” (conventional) parents. Back when divorce and unmarried parenthood were less common those children whose parents were divorced or who had no daddy had different life experiences than two-parent mother/father children. Little things like father/son activities (which no longer seem to take place in schools...) and the like have to create a feeling that the child is somehow “abnormal.” This has to have an effect. Now, add to that the position that many of us take that homosexual behavior is wrong, and it would be amazing if these children did NOT have problems.
Prior post: It has been comprehensively established that the optimal family structure for raising children is with both biological parents present.
Wow! I wonder how the parents of the two girls adopted from China at my church would react to that?
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I am sure that the parents who adopted the Chineses girls are EXCELLENT parents, but they aren’t the biological parents. All things being equal, I’d bet even they would say that if circumstances would have allowed the biological parents to raise those girls that would have been “optimal.” (In my church we also have a number of adoptive parents of Asian children, and they seem to do very well.)
Looks like someone has a problem with the definition of “optimal”. I means “none better”. Others can take covetous offense at that, but reality bites sometimes.
When is our side going to start challenging the credibility of studies funded by left-wing universities, or statist government bodies?
“When is our side going to start challenging the credibility of studies funded by left-wing universities, or statist government bodies?”
Absolutely, this must be done. I have read so many articles about skewed liberal studies, using rich over-educated lesbians to show how wonderful gay parenting is: Yet there is no public, organized outcry: No demand to recant these studies or to investigate the liberal agenda which is engineering them. This is what must be now: a real push back fighting fire with fire. Apparently the gays are more unified and more litigious than our side. It is obvious, and it has stood them in good stead.
Let us hope that the University of Texas is forced to find that the study was NOT flawed; that will be a victory worth waiting for. That is, of course, if they are not strong armed into capitulating to the political correctness forces howling on campus:
“In his letter, Rosensweig alleged that Regnerus had committed scientific misconduct because he had created ``a study designed so as to be guaranteed to make gay people look bad, through means plainly fraudulent and defamatory.’’
Rosensweig also said the study was funded by the conservative Witherspoon Institute and the Bradley Foundation, writing that Regnerus had taken ``money from an anti-gay political organisation for his study.’’
Regnerus declined to comment on the inquiry but said that his study followed the standard protocol of scholarly research.
``A team consisting of leading family researchers was involved in developing the research protocol,’’ Regnerus wrote in an email. ``This academic team merged scholars across disciplines and ideological lines in a spirit of civility and reasoned inquiry, and the protocol developed by this team was subsequently approved by the University of Texas’ Institutional Review Board.’’
``Normal procedures were followed for obtaining outside support, as many researchers do,’’ he wrote.
The University of Texas defines scientific misconduct as ``fabrication, falsification, or plagiarism’’ and ``practices that seriously deviate from ethical standards.’’ A panel of UT professors is conducting the inquiry, and the process completed within 60 days.
Among the study’s critics is UT sociology professor Debra Umberson, who described it as “bad science”.”
Who did not see this harassment coming from our self appointed and annointed homo sex lords.
“Forget it Jake, it’s Austin.”
Wow! I wonder how the parents of the two girls adopted from China at my church would react to that?
Unless they are gay, they'd probably agree and point out that there's no need to run to extremes drawing conclusions regarding adoption because of this.
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