The days, gay parents are no novelty.
Contents:
- KIDS OF GAY PARENTS FARE WORSE, STUDY FDS, BUT REARCH DRAWS FIRE OM EXPERTS
- GROWG UP WH GAY PARENTS: WHAT IS THE BIG AL?*
- GAY PARENTS RAISG KIDS: HOW WILL THEY FARE?
- DEBATE ON A STUDY EXAMG GAY PARENTS
- PARENTS OF GAY CHILDREN AND THE ISSU THEY FACE
KIDS OF GAY PARENTS FARE WORSE, STUDY FDS, BUT REARCH DRAWS FIRE OM EXPERTS
Jot statement om advocy groups lls study a "flawed, misleadg, and scientifilly unsound paper that seeks to disparage lbian and gay parents;" thor fends his study * are children affected by gay parents *
(CBS News) A new study that fds children of a gay or lbian parent may be more likely to have social and emotnal problems has sparked ntroversy on both sis of the same-sex marriage bate. In a jot statement om the Fay Equaly Council, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), Freedom to Marry, and the Gay and Lbian Alliance agast Defamatn (GLAAD), advot lled the study a "flawed, misleadg, and scientifilly unsound paper that seeks to disparage lbian and gay parents.
In a mentary Slate, William Saletan wr, "What the study shows, then, is that kids om broken hom head by gay people velop the same problems as kids om broken hom head by straight people.
GROWG UP WH GAY PARENTS: WHAT IS THE BIG AL?*
* are children affected by gay parents *
Children wh gay, lbian, transgenr or other sexual mory parents fare as well as, or better than, children wh parents of the oppose sex, acrdg to rearch published Monday BMJ Global Health, further unrmg a mon but unsupported argument agast equal marriage and adoptn as a growg number of stat enact laws curtailg LGBT+ rights. The number of children fai wh gay, lbian, bisexual, queer or transgenr parents has been risg recent years. A 2013 Canadian study (Allen 2013), which analyzed data om a very large populatn-based sample, revealed that the children of gay and lbian upl are only about 65 percent as likely to have graduated om high school as are the children of married, oppose-sex upl.
GAY PARENTS RAISG KIDS: HOW WILL THEY FARE?
The study found more psychologil and social problems among young adults om broken hom who had a gay parent. * are children affected by gay parents *
Three key fdgs stood out this study: children of married, oppose-sex parents have a high graduatn rate pared to the others; children of lbian fai have a very low graduatn rate pared to the others; and children the other four typ of livg arrangements (mon law marriage, gay uple, sgle mother, and sgle father) are siar to each other and fall between the extrem of married heterosexual parents and lbian upl.
A study of 174 primary school children Atralia (Sarantakos 1996) pared the social and tnal velopment of 58 children livg married fai, 58 livg wh habg heterosexuals, and 58 livg homosexual unns.
DEBATE ON A STUDY EXAMG GAY PARENTS
Parents of gay children may go through an adjtment perd when they fd out their child is gay, but there is support for parents of gay children. * are children affected by gay parents *
The thors found that married upl offer the bt environment for a child's social and tnal velopment, followed by habg heterosexual upl and lastly by homosexual upl. In a study (Goldberg 2007) of 36 adults raised by lbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) parents, 15 of them (42%) scribed challeng relatg to their abily to tst other people.
PARENTS OF GAY CHILDREN AND THE ISSU THEY FACE
A study (Sirota 2009) of 68 women wh gay or bisexual fathers and 68 women wh heterosexual fathers found a statistilly signifint difference between the two groups. The women (whose average age both groups was 29) wh gay or bisexual fathers had difficulty wh adult attachment issu three areas: (1) they were ls fortable wh closens and timacy; (2) they were ls able to tst and pend on others; and (3) they experienced more anxiety relatnships pared to the women raised by heterosexual fathers (and mothers).