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• ‘THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT’ BACKS AWAY FROM THE TTH ABOUT GAY FAI
• GAY ADOPTN: THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT
• THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHTA REVIEW OF S OF REARCH SHOWS CHILDREN OF SAME-SEX UPL ARE DOG JT AS WELL AS KIDS OF HETEROSEXUAL UPL, BUT ’S HOMOPHOBIC DISCRIMATN THAT N PUT THEM AT RISK OF HARMBY KATHRYN POWLEY, UNIVERSY OF MELBOURNESHARE SELECTN TO:THE NSENS OF PEER REVIEWED REARCH GOG BACK 30 YEARS IS THAT KIDS RAISED SAME-SEX PARENTED FAI DO JT AS WELL EMOTNALLY, SOCIALLY AND TNALLY AS CHILDREN RAISED BY HETEROSEXUAL UPL. IN A REVIEW OF THE TERNATNAL EVINCE, PUBLISHED THE MEDIL JOURNAL OF ATRALIA, CHILD HEALTH REARCHERS WARN THAT IS HOMOPHOBIC PREJUDICE AND DISCRIMATN THAT RISKS G HARM TO CHILDREN, NOT THE SEXUALY OF THEIR PARENTS.THERE IS NCERN THAT ASPECTS OF THE PUBLIC BATE ARE G HARM TO MANY ATRALIAN CHILDREN AND THEIR FAI. PICTURE: ISTOCK“THE FDGS HAVE BEEN REPLITED ACROSS PENNT STUDI ATRALIA AND TERNATNALLY,” WRE THE GROUP OF THIRTEEN CHILD HEALTH EXPERTS, LED BY PROFSOR FRANK OBERKLAID OF THE MURDOCH CHILDREN’S REARCH INSTUTE AND THE DEPARTMENT OF PAEDIATRICS AT THE UNIVERSY OF MELBOURNE. THE GROUP ALSO CLUS REARCHERS OM MELBOURNE’S ROYAL CHILDREN’S HOSPAL, THE VICTORIAN CLIL GEICS SERVIC, THE CHILDREN’S HOSPAL AT WTMEAD SYDNEY, AND NEW ZEALAND’S UNIVERSY OF AUCKLAND.EVINCE MISREPRENTED MPAIGNTHEY WRE THAT THEY ARE NCERNED THAT “HOMOPHOBIC MPAIGN MSAG” AROUND ATRALIA’S PUBLIC SURVEY ON WHETHER TO LEGALISE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE HAS LED TO A “DAMAGG MISREPRENTATN” OF THE EVINCE ON THE WELFARE OF CHILDREN OF SAME-SEX UPL.SAME SEX MARRIAGE, RELIG EEDOM AND THE LAWREAD MORE“AN CREASED PUBLIC HEALTH RISK EXISTS AS A RULT OF HOMOPHOBIC MPAIGN MSAG FOR THE ENTIRE LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, TERSEX AND QUEER (LGBTIQ) MUNY, CLUDG MENTAL HEALTH RISK FOR SAME-SEX UPL, THEIR CHILDREN, AND YOUNG PEOPLE WHO INTIFY AS LGBTIQ+.”THEY NOTE THAT EARLIER THIS YEAR THE PUBLIC POLICY REARCH PORTAL AT COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL NEW YORK REVIEWED 79 STUDI ON THE WELLBEG OF CHILDREN RAISED BY GAY PARENTS AND FOUND “AN OVERWHELMG SCHOLARLY NSENS, BASED ON OVER THREE S OF PEER-REVIEWED REARCH, THAT HAVG A GAY OR LBIAN PARENT DO NOT HARM CHILDREN”.IN 2014, THE AMERIN SOCLOGIL ASSOCIATN REVIEWED MORE THAN 40 STUDI OF CHILDREN RAISED BY SAME-SEX UPL AND NCLUD THEY FARED JT AS WELL AS OTHER CHILDREN ACROSS A NUMBER OF WELLBEG MEASUR, CLUDG AMIC PERFORMANCE, GNIVE VELOPMENT, SOCIAL VELOPMENT, AND PSYCHOLOGIL HEALTH.AND 2013 THE ATRALIAN INSTUTE OF FAY STUDI REVIEWED ATRALIAN AND TERNATNAL REARCH ON SAME-SEX PARENTED FAI AND FOUND THAT BEG RAISED BY SAME-SEX PARENTS DON’T HARM CHILDREN. IN FACT THE KIDS DO JT AS WELL EMOTNALLY, SOCIALLY AND TNALLY AS THEIR PEERS.THEY NOTE THAT SOME STUDI HAVE NCLUD THAT CHILDREN RAISED BY SAME-SEX UPL ACTUALLY SHOW BETTER PSYCHOLOGIL ADJTMENT AND GREATER OPEN-MDNS TOWARDS SEXUAL, GENR AND FAY DIVERSY.THEY WARN THAT NTRASTG STUDI THAT HAVE SUGGTED CHILDREN DO POORLY WHEN RAISED BY GAY OR LBIAN PARENTS HAVE BEEN WILY CRICISED FOR THEIR METHODOLOGIL LIMATNS. CHILDREN WH SAME-SEX PARENTS ARE EMOTNALLY AFFECTED WHEN THEY AND THEIR FAI ARE EXPOSED TO HOMOPHOBIA. PICTURE: ISTOCKFOR EXAMPLE, THEY NOTE THAT THE NEW FAY STCTUR STUDY, ALSO KNOWN AS THE REGNES STUDY, ANALYS SURVEY DATA OM ADULTS AGED 18-39 AND NCLUS THAT THOSE WH A GAY OR LBIAN PARENT FARED WORSE ON A RANGE OF OUT WHEN PARED TO ADULTS RAISED BY THEIR HETEROSEXUAL, MARRIED, BLOGIL PARENTS. BUT THE REGNES STUDY PAR PEOPLE RAISED BY ONE GAY OR LBIAN PARENT WH THOSE RAISED TWO-PARENT, STABLE, HETEROSEXUAL, FAY ENVIRONMENTS. “WHEN RE-ANALYSED, TAKG FAY STABILY AND HAVG TWO ACTIVE PARENTS TO ACUNT, THE DATA SHOWED THAT OUT WERE SIAR FOR ADULTS REGARDLS OF THEIR PARENTS’ SEXUALY.” DUTY OF CAREWHILE THE NSENS OF EVINCE IS THAT CHILDREN DO JT FE WH SAME SEX PARENTS, THE REARCHERS WARN THAT THE EVINCE ALSO SHOWS THAT CHILDREN AND ADOLCENTS WH SAME-SEX PARENTS ARE EMOTNALLY AFFECTED WHEN THEY AND THEIR FAI ARE EXPOSED TO HOMOPHOBIA, DISCRIMATN, PREJUDICE AND SOCIAL STIGMA.THE LEGAL MAZE OF THE MARRIAGE EQUALY SURVEYREAD MOREA 2008 STUDY PARG THE WELLBEG OF SAME-SEX PARENTED CHILDREN RAISED THE USA AND THE NETHERLANDS FOUND AMERIN CHILDREN WERE SIGNIFINTLY MORE LIKELY THAN DUTCH CHILDREN TO EXPERIENCE HOMOPHOBIC BULLYG, AND LS LIKELY TO DISCLOSE THEIR FAY STCTURE.THE REARCH NCLUD THE DIFFERENC WERE LIKELY DUE TO GREATER SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE OF SAME-SEX RELATNSHIPS THE NETHERLANDS, WHICH WAS LEGALISED 2001.AND THEY POT OUT THAT LEGALISG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE HAS HAD A POSIVE IMPACT ON THE MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLBEG OF LGBTIQ+ YOUNG PEOPLE US WHERE STATE-BASED MARRIAGE POLICI WERE ASSOCIATED WH A 7% RELATIVE RCTN SUICI ATTEMPTS AMONG SEXUAL MORY HIGH SCHOOL STUNTS.“THE ENTIRE LGBTIQ+ MUNY IS AT RISK OF HARM THE CURRENT BATE AROUND SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, AND THE MOST VULNERABLE ARE CHILDREN AND ADOLCENTS,” THE REARCHERS WRE.“WE HAVE A DUTY OF RE TO ALL GROUPS OUR SOCIETY, PARTICULARLY TO THOSE WHO ARE VULNERABLE. OUR DUTY EXTENDS TO LLG FOR PUBLIC STATEMENTS BASED ON ACCURATE, OBJECTIVE TERPRETATNS OF THE BT AVAILABLE EVINCE, THE RRECTN OF ACCURATE RMATN, AND EFFORTS TO RCE THE STCTIVENS OF PUBLIC BATE.“THIS IS EXACTLY THE URSE OF ACTN WE HAVE TAKEN ON HEALTH ISSU SUCH AS IMMUNISATN AND CHILDREN TENTN.”BANNER IMAGE: ISTOCKFIRST PUBLISHED ON 23 OCTOBER 2017 HEALTH & WELLBEG SAME SEX MARRIAGE GAY RIGHTSCHILDRENBULLYGDISCRIMATNSTART THE NVERSATN ON FACEBOOKLOADG NVERSATN...SORRY, SOMETHG PREVENTED THE FACEBOOK MENTS FEED OM LOADG. HEALTH & WELLBEG FEATUREDPROFSOR FRANK OBERKLAIDDEPARTMENT OF PAEDIATRICS, UNIVERSY OF MELBOURNE; GROUP LEAR POLICY, EQUY AND TRANSLATN, MURDOCH CHILDREN'S REARCH INSTUTE; FOUNDATN DIRECTOR OF THE CENTRE FOR COMMUNY CHILD HEALTH AT THE ROYAL CHILDREN’S HOSPALSHARE: FACEBOOKTWTERLKEDINMEDIA AND REPUBLITNTERMS OF ECLOSEREPUBLISH THIS ARTICLE WE BELIEVE THE EE FLOW OF RMATN. THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNR A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTN-NO DERIVATIV 3.0 ATRALIA (CC BY-ND 3.0 AU), SO YOU N REPUBLISH OUR ARTICL FOR EE, ONLE OR PRT.ALL REPUBLISHED ARTICL MT BE ATTRIBUTED THE FOLLOWG WAY AND NTA LKS TO BOTH THE SE AND ORIGAL ARTICLE: “THIS ARTICLE WAS FIRST PUBLISHED ON PURSU. READ THE ORIGAL ARTICLE.”THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT

‘THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT’ BACKS AWAY FROM THE TTH ABOUT GAY FAI

Each character, rather than beg simply ritur of what a straight person would assume a gay married uple would look like, has her own strikg personaly, and the two actrs perform que well. Many gay upl have more expansive fns of "fay" that challenge the ia of the “nuclear fay, ” and that mak some people unfortable. (A lot of lbians watch gay male porn; some lbian-intified women are also attracted to men and sometim sleep wh men.

GAY ADOPTN: THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT

But the film backs away om one tth about gay fai that mak people unfortable. While lbian upl have more tonomy than gay-male upl, no same-sex uple n start a fay whout an assist om someone — a sperm donor, an egg donor, an adoptn-agency unselor, a surrogate mom. Consequently many gay upl have more expansive fns of “fay, ” fns that challenge the ia of the “nuclear fay, ” fns that make some people, particularly social nservativ, very unfortable.

There was also the stg of straight actors Moore and Ante Beng gay rol.

Cholonko is an openly gay filmmaker and says the backlash over straight actors playg gay rol is a “super tertg argument. “When I st Julianne and Ante, I really felt like, on the ntuum of gayns, I uld feel their gayns, ” Cholonko said. While I want to promote gay people reprentg gay people, trans people, all the rt, queer people — ’s also a mercial prospect.

THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHTA REVIEW OF S OF REARCH SHOWS CHILDREN OF SAME-SEX UPL ARE DOG JT AS WELL AS KIDS OF HETEROSEXUAL UPL, BUT ’S HOMOPHOBIC DISCRIMATN THAT N PUT THEM AT RISK OF HARMBY KATHRYN POWLEY, UNIVERSY OF MELBOURNESHARE SELECTN TO:THE NSENS OF PEER REVIEWED REARCH GOG BACK 30 YEARS IS THAT KIDS RAISED SAME-SEX PARENTED FAI DO JT AS WELL EMOTNALLY, SOCIALLY AND TNALLY AS CHILDREN RAISED BY HETEROSEXUAL UPL. IN A REVIEW OF THE TERNATNAL EVINCE, PUBLISHED THE MEDIL JOURNAL OF ATRALIA, CHILD HEALTH REARCHERS WARN THAT IS HOMOPHOBIC PREJUDICE AND DISCRIMATN THAT RISKS G HARM TO CHILDREN, NOT THE SEXUALY OF THEIR PARENTS.THERE IS NCERN THAT ASPECTS OF THE PUBLIC BATE ARE G HARM TO MANY ATRALIAN CHILDREN AND THEIR FAI. PICTURE: ISTOCK“THE FDGS HAVE BEEN REPLITED ACROSS PENNT STUDI ATRALIA AND TERNATNALLY,” WRE THE GROUP OF THIRTEEN CHILD HEALTH EXPERTS, LED BY PROFSOR FRANK OBERKLAID OF THE MURDOCH CHILDREN’S REARCH INSTUTE AND THE DEPARTMENT OF PAEDIATRICS AT THE UNIVERSY OF MELBOURNE. THE GROUP ALSO CLUS REARCHERS OM MELBOURNE’S ROYAL CHILDREN’S HOSPAL, THE VICTORIAN CLIL GEICS SERVIC, THE CHILDREN’S HOSPAL AT WTMEAD SYDNEY, AND NEW ZEALAND’S UNIVERSY OF AUCKLAND.EVINCE MISREPRENTED MPAIGNTHEY WRE THAT THEY ARE NCERNED THAT “HOMOPHOBIC MPAIGN MSAG” AROUND ATRALIA’S PUBLIC SURVEY ON WHETHER TO LEGALISE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE HAS LED TO A “DAMAGG MISREPRENTATN” OF THE EVINCE ON THE WELFARE OF CHILDREN OF SAME-SEX UPL.SAME SEX MARRIAGE, RELIG EEDOM AND THE LAWREAD MORE“AN CREASED PUBLIC HEALTH RISK EXISTS AS A RULT OF HOMOPHOBIC MPAIGN MSAG FOR THE ENTIRE LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, TERSEX AND QUEER (LGBTIQ) MUNY, CLUDG MENTAL HEALTH RISK FOR SAME-SEX UPL, THEIR CHILDREN, AND YOUNG PEOPLE WHO INTIFY AS LGBTIQ+.”THEY NOTE THAT EARLIER THIS YEAR THE PUBLIC POLICY REARCH PORTAL AT COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL NEW YORK REVIEWED 79 STUDI ON THE WELLBEG OF CHILDREN RAISED BY GAY PARENTS AND FOUND “AN OVERWHELMG SCHOLARLY NSENS, BASED ON OVER THREE S OF PEER-REVIEWED REARCH, THAT HAVG A GAY OR LBIAN PARENT DO NOT HARM CHILDREN”.IN 2014, THE AMERIN SOCLOGIL ASSOCIATN REVIEWED MORE THAN 40 STUDI OF CHILDREN RAISED BY SAME-SEX UPL AND NCLUD THEY FARED JT AS WELL AS OTHER CHILDREN ACROSS A NUMBER OF WELLBEG MEASUR, CLUDG AMIC PERFORMANCE, GNIVE VELOPMENT, SOCIAL VELOPMENT, AND PSYCHOLOGIL HEALTH.AND 2013 THE ATRALIAN INSTUTE OF FAY STUDI REVIEWED ATRALIAN AND TERNATNAL REARCH ON SAME-SEX PARENTED FAI AND FOUND THAT BEG RAISED BY SAME-SEX PARENTS DON’T HARM CHILDREN. IN FACT THE KIDS DO JT AS WELL EMOTNALLY, SOCIALLY AND TNALLY AS THEIR PEERS.THEY NOTE THAT SOME STUDI HAVE NCLUD THAT CHILDREN RAISED BY SAME-SEX UPL ACTUALLY SHOW BETTER PSYCHOLOGIL ADJTMENT AND GREATER OPEN-MDNS TOWARDS SEXUAL, GENR AND FAY DIVERSY.THEY WARN THAT NTRASTG STUDI THAT HAVE SUGGTED CHILDREN DO POORLY WHEN RAISED BY GAY OR LBIAN PARENTS HAVE BEEN WILY CRICISED FOR THEIR METHODOLOGIL LIMATNS. CHILDREN WH SAME-SEX PARENTS ARE EMOTNALLY AFFECTED WHEN THEY AND THEIR FAI ARE EXPOSED TO HOMOPHOBIA. PICTURE: ISTOCKFOR EXAMPLE, THEY NOTE THAT THE NEW FAY STCTUR STUDY, ALSO KNOWN AS THE REGNES STUDY, ANALYS SURVEY DATA OM ADULTS AGED 18-39 AND NCLUS THAT THOSE WH A GAY OR LBIAN PARENT FARED WORSE ON A RANGE OF OUT WHEN PARED TO ADULTS RAISED BY THEIR HETEROSEXUAL, MARRIED, BLOGIL PARENTS. BUT THE REGNES STUDY PAR PEOPLE RAISED BY ONE GAY OR LBIAN PARENT WH THOSE RAISED TWO-PARENT, STABLE, HETEROSEXUAL, FAY ENVIRONMENTS. “WHEN RE-ANALYSED, TAKG FAY STABILY AND HAVG TWO ACTIVE PARENTS TO ACUNT, THE DATA SHOWED THAT OUT WERE SIAR FOR ADULTS REGARDLS OF THEIR PARENTS’ SEXUALY.” DUTY OF CAREWHILE THE NSENS OF EVINCE IS THAT CHILDREN DO JT FE WH SAME SEX PARENTS, THE REARCHERS WARN THAT THE EVINCE ALSO SHOWS THAT CHILDREN AND ADOLCENTS WH SAME-SEX PARENTS ARE EMOTNALLY AFFECTED WHEN THEY AND THEIR FAI ARE EXPOSED TO HOMOPHOBIA, DISCRIMATN, PREJUDICE AND SOCIAL STIGMA.THE LEGAL MAZE OF THE MARRIAGE EQUALY SURVEYREAD MOREA 2008 STUDY PARG THE WELLBEG OF SAME-SEX PARENTED CHILDREN RAISED THE USA AND THE NETHERLANDS FOUND AMERIN CHILDREN WERE SIGNIFINTLY MORE LIKELY THAN DUTCH CHILDREN TO EXPERIENCE HOMOPHOBIC BULLYG, AND LS LIKELY TO DISCLOSE THEIR FAY STCTURE.THE REARCH NCLUD THE DIFFERENC WERE LIKELY DUE TO GREATER SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE OF SAME-SEX RELATNSHIPS THE NETHERLANDS, WHICH WAS LEGALISED 2001.AND THEY POT OUT THAT LEGALISG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE HAS HAD A POSIVE IMPACT ON THE MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLBEG OF LGBTIQ+ YOUNG PEOPLE US WHERE STATE-BASED MARRIAGE POLICI WERE ASSOCIATED WH A 7% RELATIVE RCTN SUICI ATTEMPTS AMONG SEXUAL MORY HIGH SCHOOL STUNTS.“THE ENTIRE LGBTIQ+ MUNY IS AT RISK OF HARM THE CURRENT BATE AROUND SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, AND THE MOST VULNERABLE ARE CHILDREN AND ADOLCENTS,” THE REARCHERS WRE.“WE HAVE A DUTY OF RE TO ALL GROUPS OUR SOCIETY, PARTICULARLY TO THOSE WHO ARE VULNERABLE. OUR DUTY EXTENDS TO LLG FOR PUBLIC STATEMENTS BASED ON ACCURATE, OBJECTIVE TERPRETATNS OF THE BT AVAILABLE EVINCE, THE RRECTN OF ACCURATE RMATN, AND EFFORTS TO RCE THE STCTIVENS OF PUBLIC BATE.“THIS IS EXACTLY THE URSE OF ACTN WE HAVE TAKEN ON HEALTH ISSU SUCH AS IMMUNISATN AND CHILDREN TENTN.”BANNER IMAGE: ISTOCKFIRST PUBLISHED ON 23 OCTOBER 2017 HEALTH & WELLBEG SAME SEX MARRIAGE GAY RIGHTSCHILDRENBULLYGDISCRIMATNSTART THE NVERSATN ON FACEBOOKLOADG NVERSATN...SORRY, SOMETHG PREVENTED THE FACEBOOK MENTS FEED OM LOADG. HEALTH & WELLBEG FEATUREDPROFSOR FRANK OBERKLAIDDEPARTMENT OF PAEDIATRICS, UNIVERSY OF MELBOURNE; GROUP LEAR POLICY, EQUY AND TRANSLATN, MURDOCH CHILDREN'S REARCH INSTUTE; FOUNDATN DIRECTOR OF THE CENTRE FOR COMMUNY CHILD HEALTH AT THE ROYAL CHILDREN’S HOSPALSHARE: FACEBOOKTWTERLKEDINMEDIA AND REPUBLITNTERMS OF ECLOSEREPUBLISH THIS ARTICLE WE BELIEVE THE EE FLOW OF RMATN. THIS WORK IS LICENSED UNR A CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTN-NO DERIVATIV 3.0 ATRALIA (CC BY-ND 3.0 AU), SO YOU N REPUBLISH OUR ARTICL FOR EE, ONLE OR PRT.ALL REPUBLISHED ARTICL MT BE ATTRIBUTED THE FOLLOWG WAY AND NTA LKS TO BOTH THE SE AND ORIGAL ARTICLE: “THIS ARTICLE WAS FIRST PUBLISHED ON PURSU. READ THE ORIGAL ARTICLE.”THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT

However, as gay parents, Jam and his partner, Todd Herrmann, PhD, have some fears that don't keep most other parents up at night.