Posted on 02/26/2013 1:03:02 PM PST by annalex
a b s t r a c t
The New Family Structures Study (NFSS) is a social-science data-collection project that fielded a survey to a large, random sample of American young adults (ages 18–39) who were raised in different types of family arrangements. In this debut article of the NFSS, I compare how the young-adult children of a parent who has had a same-sex romantic relationship fare on 40 different social, emotional, and relational outcome variables when compared with six other family-of-origin types. The results reveal numerous, consistent differences, especially between the children of women who have had a lesbian relationship and those with still-married (heterosexual) biological parents. The results are typically robust in multivariate contexts as well, suggesting far greater diversity in lesbian-parent household experiences than convenience-sample studies of lesbian families have revealed. The NFSS proves to be an illuminating, versatile dataset that can assist family scholars in understanding the long reach of family structure and transitions.
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| IBF | LM | GF | ABS | DL>18 | SF | SP | Other | |
| Currently married | 0.43 | 0.36 | 0.35 | 0.41 | 0.36 | 0.41 | 0.37 | 0.39 |
| Currently cohabiting | 0.09 | 0.24 | 0.21 | 0.07 | 0.31 | 0.19 | 0.19 | 0.13 |
| Family received welfare growing up | 0.17 | 0.69 | 0.57 | 0.12 | 0.47 | 0.53 | 0.48 | 0.35 |
| Currently on public assistance | 0.10 | 0.38 | 0.23 | 0.27 | 0.31 | 0.30 | 0.30 | 0.23 |
| Currently employed full-time | 0.49 | 0.26 | 0.34 | 0.41 | 0.42 | 0.47 | 0.43 | 0.39 |
| Currently unemployed | 0.08 | 0.28 | 0.20 | 0.22 | 0.15 | 0.14 | 0.13 | 0.15 |
| Voted in last presidential election | 0.57 | 0.41 | 0.73 | 0.58 | 0.63 | 0.57 | 0.51 | 0.48 |
| Thought recently about suicide | 0.05 | 0.12 | 0.24 | 0.07 | 0.08 | 0.10 | 0.05 | 0.09 |
| Recently or currently in therapy | 0.08 | 0.19 | 0.19 | 0.22 | 0.12 | 0.17 | 0.13 | 0.09 |
| Identifies as entirely heterosexual | 0.90 | 0.61 | 0.71 | 0.82 | 0.83 | 0.81 | 0.83 | 0.82 |
| Is in a same-sex romantic relationship | 0.04 | 0.07 | 0.12 | 0.23 | 0.05 | 0.13 | 0.03 | 0.02 |
| Had affair while married/cohabiting | 0.13 | 0.40 | 0.25 | 0.20 | 0.12 | 0.32 | 0.19 | 0.16 |
| Has ever had an STI | 0.08 | 0.20 | 0.25 | 0.16 | 0.12 | 0.16 | 0.14 | 0.08 |
| Ever touched sexually by parent/adult | 0.02 | 0.23 | 0.06 | 0.03 | 0.10 | 0.12 | 0.10 | 0.08 |
| Ever forced to have sex against will | 0.08 | 0.31 | 0.25 | 0.23 | 0.24 | 0.16 | 0.16 | 0.11 |
It’s allowing mentally ill sexual deviants to take children as their pets and playthings....and worse.
As a woman, I know the way I look at men was formed by my relationship with my father. I wouldn’t allow one to mistreat me because he never did.
It’s allowing mentally ill sexual deviants to take children as their pets and playthings....and worse.
As a woman, I know the way I look at men was formed by my relationship with my father. I wouldn’t allow one to mistreat me because he never did.
It’s allowing mentally ill sexual deviants to take children as their pets and playthings....and worse.
As a woman, I know the way I look at men was formed by my relationship with my father. I wouldn’t allow one to mistreat me because he never did.
It’s allowing mentally ill sexual deviants to take children as their pets and playthings....and worse.
As a woman, I know the way I look at men was formed by my relationship with my father. I wouldn’t allow one to mistreat me because he never did.
Well that’s embarrassing. Sorry for that
I would say, in general, there is something for everyone in the study. We see that the negative impact of gay father is less severe than that of the mother, corroborating the notion of special importance of mothers. We see that homosexuality has a negative impact at least as bad as of sundry consequences of a death of a parent or divorce. We see that while homosexuality is a significant negative, it is not significantly worse than other cases of broken and reconstituted households. We can also see that legality of a reconstituted family as opposed to the illegitimacy of homosexual affairs does not show as a mitigating factor. We do not see a stark condemnation of homosexual marriage out of this, as the data are gathered from households with homosexual affairs or single-parent homosexual households, rather than legal unions of two gay people. A proponent of gay "marriage" would point to this data and argue that the real negative factor in this is infidelity of a parent or absence of a parent, and not homosexuality per se.
death or divorce - Does not have the same impact as homosexuality as the parental role.
From the article:
While gay and lesbian Americans typically become parents today in four ways—through one partner’s previous participation in a heterosexual union, through adoption, in-vitro fertilization, or by a surrogate—the NFSS is more likely to be comprised of respondents from the first two of these arrangements than from the last two.[...]
Although the NFSS did not directly ask those respondents whose parent has had a same-sex romantic relationship about the manner of their own birth, a failed heterosexual union is clearly the modal method: just under half of such respondents reported that their biological parents were once married.
So, they are not necessarily biological parents who had homosexual affairs but predominantly that is what they are. They may or may not be gay couples raising a biological child of one of them; just as likely, they are married parents with an homosexual affair on the side and the child being with the straight parent:
Among those who said their mother had a same-sex relationship, 91% reported living with their mother while she was in the romantic relationship, and 57% said they had lived with their mother and her partner for at least 4 months at some point prior to age 18. A smaller share (23%) said they had spent at least 3 years living in the same household with a romantic partner of their mother’s.Among those who said their father had a same-sex relationship, however, 42% reported living with him while he was in a same-sex romantic relationship, and 23% reported living with him and his partner for at least 4 months (but less than 2% said they had spent at least 3 years together in the same household), a trend similarly noted in Tasker’s (2005) review article on gay and lesbian parenting.
(all quotes from pages 756-757).
I don't see that from the data. Column 1 is intact heterosexual parents; columns 2 and 3 are one or both parents homosexual; columns 4-8 are diverse consequences of death or divorce. I don't see much difference between columns 2,3 and columns 4-8. Do you?
I do not care what the chart says, death and divorce do not rid the child of the parent - there are still two, male and female.
Do a search you will find many studies that show that.
It is not that children do not have impact on their lives but as I said the parent is still there, even in death the parent is spoken about and remembered.
If you are really believing that two same sex parents and their perverted lifestyle is the same as a death of a parent or divorce, sorry nothing I can do about that.
It is another attempt no matter how veiled to justify “no difference”.
Three words not separated by even so much as a comma, “committed homosexual unions.” Which word didn’t you understand?
Or do you need more than three words to promote an argument?
They have by far the highest levels of suicidal ideation and they're the most likely to vote, a peculiar combination that explains much as far as Democratic politics.
Other than that they appear to be fairly run of the mill with the exception of a markedly lower likelihood of reported molestation by an adult, which I actually find hard to believe. I work in a creative field and have had to deal with a lot of alternative types including homosexual men. To say that as a group they're sex-obsessed to the point of compulsion and very attracted to younger males is an understatement.
I hear you, but the relevant topic on this thread is what the data say.
Strange indeed. Remember though that the sample is children of one homosexual or bisexual parent regardless of which parent they live with. That is, by the way, the likely key to the apparent greater damage done by lesbianism than by male homosexuality: in the event of separation or divorcee a child is likely to stay with the mother, therefore she is the one having all the impact. In the rare case when a child is in custody of his gay father, the father would guard him closely, fearful of losing custody.
Who is this “we,” Pilgrim? Intellectualize the “problem” all you wish. Don’t recall indicating you shouldn’t, and it may have the virtue of keeping you out of mischief otherwise. If you are suggesting that human action is something less than perfect, an intellectual study isn’t necessary to establishment that.
We, you and I. This is how conversations are made.
If they remained in custody of a wife who was thoroughly freaked out that her husband turned gay, that might lead to hyper-vigilance, which in turn might explain the seemingly odd statistic.
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