How different are the adult children of parents who have same-sex relationships?

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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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“The phenomenon, however rare it is, needs to be studied by sociologists, unless we want our laws to be shaped by this rarest of birds.”

Let it be studied by sociologists. By all means. But, take it from someone who has been in a “committed” hetero relationship for over 55 years, our laws have already been “shaped” by a political lobby that thinks itself above accepting the conventions of meaning and description, established by society over a protracted period of time, and intends to instead establish by law a meaning conforming to the political objectives of a few.

Definitions, and descriptions, are supposed to facilitate communication, by contributing to the clarification or perfection of one’s understanding of things and ideas, achieved through persuasion, until generally accepted by society. “Reshaping” the lexicon by law is a tactic employed by propagandists.

Sorry for the delay in replying. Almost missed your post entirely.

Here's Burke on the French Revolution:

Compute your gains: see what is got by those extravagant and presumptuous speculations which have taught your leaders to despise all their predecessors, and all their contemporaries, and even to despise themselves, until the moment in which they became truly despicable. By following those false lights, France has bought undisguised calamities at a higher price than any nation has purchased the most unequivocal blessings! France has bought poverty by crime! France has not sacrificed her virtue to her interest, but she has abandoned her interest, that she might prostitute her virtue. All other nations have begun the fabric of a new government, or the reformation of an old, by establishing originally, or by enforcing with greater exactness some rites or other of religion. All other people have laid the foundations of civil freedom in severer manners, and a system of a more austere and masculine morality. France, when she let loose the reins of regal authority, doubled the license of a ferocious dissoluteness in manners, and of an insolent irreligion in opinions and practices; and has extended through all ranks of life, as if she were communicating some privilege, or laying open some secluded benefit, all the unhappy corruptions that usually were the disease of wealth and power. This is one of the new principles of equality in France.

Reflections on The Revolution in France

Bought poverty by crime.

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