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Children of Same-Sex Parents Are Healthier: Study
NBC News ^ | July 7, 2014 | Katie Holliday

Posted on 07/07/2014 9:17:50 PM PDT by Rennes Templar

Children of same-sex parents have above average health and well-being, research by the University of Melbourne shows.

The research was based on data from the Australian Study of Child Health in Same-Sex Families, which involved input from 315 same-sex parents and a total of 500 children. Of these participating families, 80 percent had female parents while 18 percent had male partners.

"It appears that same-sex parent families get along well and this has a positive impact on health," said Dr Simon Crouch from the Jack Brockhoff Child Health and Wellbeing Program, Centre for Health Equity at the University of Melbourne.

"We know that same-sex attracted parents are more likely to share child care and work responsibilities more equitably than heterosexual parent families, based more on skills rather than gender roles. This appears to be contributing to a more harmonious household and having a positive impact on child health," he said.

Children in same-sex parent families scored roughly six percent higher than the general population on measures of general health and family cohesion, according to the research. But within the categories of temperament and mood, behavior, mental health, emotional role and self-esteem, these children scored the same as children from the general population.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: falsescience; hoax; ssm; ssmchildren
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Total gay propaganda BS. This was a survey. Think gays wouldn't enhance their replies?

And that's just for starters.

1 posted on 07/07/2014 9:17:50 PM PDT by Rennes Templar
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To: Rennes Templar

Nuff said.
2 posted on 07/07/2014 9:20:42 PM PDT by Justice
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To: Rennes Templar

Propaganda.

There are many other studies showing the opposite.


3 posted on 07/07/2014 9:20:44 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: Rennes Templar

These stories. I wonder who makes them up.


4 posted on 07/07/2014 9:20:48 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: Rennes Templar

Worst Jedi mind trick since “you will not surely die”.


5 posted on 07/07/2014 9:22:17 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: TigerClaws

Even the New York Times did a feature article about how they suffer from gender identity issues.

Of douse, these days that’s considered a plus.


6 posted on 07/07/2014 9:22:54 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: Rennes Templar

I think I just better keep my mouth shut as this may be “settled science.”


7 posted on 07/07/2014 9:25:16 PM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt ("When you're going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill)
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To: TigerClaws

Leave it to NBC to make it a headline.


8 posted on 07/07/2014 9:26:55 PM PDT by Rennes Templar (If Obama hated America and wanted to destroy her, what would he do differently?)
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To: Rennes Templar

Who did the report? Kinsey?


9 posted on 07/07/2014 9:27:18 PM PDT by murron (Proud Mom of a Marine Vet)
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To: Rennes Templar

Pffft.

Yeah right.


10 posted on 07/07/2014 9:28:29 PM PDT by Shelayne
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To: Rennes Templar
Notice that female-female families greatly outnumber male-male families. This might mean that the slightly better average family cohesion numbers etc might be due to the greater availability of female nurturing in the female-female homes.

It's possible that male-female families compare favorably when the mother doesn't work and is available for nurturing and bonding. Of course they'd never admit that. It would go against their ideas about what it means to be a successful woman.

11 posted on 07/07/2014 9:30:18 PM PDT by freerepublicchat
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Well that does it then. . .I guess it must be okay.


12 posted on 07/07/2014 9:33:38 PM PDT by McBuff
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To: Rennes Templar

That’s because the boys are too busy trying to run away from their molesters


13 posted on 07/07/2014 9:34:32 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Rennes Templar

Children Raised in the Intact Biological Family Fare Better by the Vast Majority of Objective Measures

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Notre Dame University has denied official recognition of a student group promoting policymaking that places primary emphasis on advocacy explicitly for the interests of children in considerations about so-called “Gay Marriage”. The quest for recognition by Students for Child-Oriented Policy (SCOP), was rejected in an April 30 letter from the university’s Student Activities Office.

In evaluating a proposal, approval is based on several things.…There was not a need for another similar-type club. The Club Coordination Council

SCOP’s Notre Dame Marriage Petition cites Pope Francis and the Catechism of the Catholic Church in support of the group’s quest to promote children’s interests as equally valid to the now-exclusive consideration given adults’ interests regarding so-called “Marriage Equity”.

“We reject the view that the young have agreed to redefine marriage. Rather, we think that they have not explored the meaning and importance of marriage.”
Students for Child-Oriented Policy

An opposing group, Students Against SCOP, asserts that SCOP makes “incorrect implications that same-sex parenting is damaging to children – this blatantly ignores all empirical data in this field of the social sciences.”

SCOP’s incorrect implications that same-sex parenting is damaging to children…blatantly ignores all empirical data in this field of the social sciences.—Students Against SCOP

“This blatantly ignores all empirical data in this field of the social sciences.”

(Not quite.)

‘Gold standard’ study’s striking findings: children of heterosexual parents happier, healthier

Regnerus

The most scientifically credible studies show that children of heterosexual parents fare better on numerous indicators of personal well-being than children of homosexual parents. Authored by Mark Regnerus, a sociology professor at the University of Texas at Austin, the study was published in the July 2012 issue of Social Science Research.

Regnerus’ findings conflict with studies widely touted by homosexual activists which have claimed that children raised by homosexual parents fare as well or even better than their peers. Many of these studies, Regnerus points out, have relied on small, self-selected samples, parent rather than child reported outcomes, and have exhibited evidence of political bias.

Regnerus drew his data from the New Family Structures Study, a data collection project that drew from a large, random sample of American young adults. This study is one of the few that measures outcomes as reported by the children of homosexuals, rather than relying on an assessment by the homosexual parent.

Allen

Children from same-sex households much less likely to graduate high school: large study

Girls living in “gay” households are only 15 percent as likely to graduate compared to girls from opposite sex married homes.

A large-scale study by Douglas W. Allen, professor of economics at Simon Fraser University, has found that children in same-sex households were only 65 percent as likely to graduate from high school as those living in traditional opposite sex marriage families.cdcStudy

Adverse Family Experiences Among Children in Nonparental Care, 2011–2012

WHO KNEW? Homosexual Activists Aim to Destroy Marriage

Masha Gessen

Judith Stacey

Are Kids Equal to You?

 

14 posted on 07/07/2014 9:36:02 PM PDT by CharlesOConnell (CharlesOConnell)
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To: Rennes Templar

It appears to have escaped the writer that this entire concept is a biological impossibility. Depriving a child of a mother and a father, who do indeed have distinct and essential roles in the nurturing and development of their children and acting like that is a good thing for a child by these kinds of nonsensical stories is really pathetic.


15 posted on 07/07/2014 9:37:00 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: freerepublicchat

Good point.


16 posted on 07/07/2014 9:42:56 PM PDT by Rennes Templar (If Obama hated America and wanted to destroy her, what would he do differently?)
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To: Justice

Even libs don’t believe this you know what or as demonstrated so aptly in your pic.


17 posted on 07/07/2014 9:45:26 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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IF 80% had female parents, and 18% had male partner parents, what were the other 2%????


18 posted on 07/07/2014 9:47:06 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego (s)
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To: CharlesOConnell

“The most scientifically credible studies show that children of heterosexual parents fare better ...Authored by Mark Regnerus, a sociology professor at the University of Texas at Austin, the study was published in the July 2012 issue of Social Science Research.”

Wonder if his study made an NBC headline.


19 posted on 07/07/2014 9:47:21 PM PDT by Rennes Templar (If Obama hated America and wanted to destroy her, what would he do differently?)
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To: Rennes Templar

Happier? Because they’re “gay,” don’t cha know?


20 posted on 07/07/2014 10:13:36 PM PDT by JustTheTruth
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