Is Gay Parentg Bad for the Kids? | Natnal Review

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• GAY UPLE WHO WENT VIRAL FOR THEIR TRADNAL WEDDG SET TO BEE PARENTS SOON. VIRAL
• GAY UPLE CHARGED WH MOLTG THEIR ADOPTED SONS ALSO PIMPED THEM OUT TO PEDOPHILE RG, REPORT CLAIMS
• SAME-SEX COUPLE AM AND ADYA SET TO BEE PARENTS SOONAM SHAH AND ADYA MADIRAJU GOT MARRIED A TRADNAL HDU-STYLE WEDDG 2019.QUT NEONPUBLISHED: 09 JAN 2023, 4:19 PM ISTSOCIAL BUZZ1 M READISHARE ON THE QUT DAILY
• GAY ATLANTA UPLE CHARGED WH RAPG ADOPTED SONS ALSO 'PIMPED THEM OUT TO OTHER LOL PEDOPHIL'
• GAY COUPLE ACCED OF SEXUALLY ABG, ‘PIMPG OUT’ ADOPTED CHILDREN
• OPEN MENUVIOSHOPWELLNSFOODCULTUREFAYLIVGSTYLETRAVELNEWSBOOK CLUBGMA3: WYNTKNEWSLETTERPRIVACY POLICY — YOUR US STATE PRIVACY RIGHTS — CHILDREN'S ONLE PRIVACY POLICY — INTERT-BASED ADS — TERMS OF USE — DO NOT SELL MY INFO — CONTACT USCOPYRIGHT © 2023 ABC NEWS INTER VENTUR. ALL RIGHTS RERVED.SEARCHSHOP THE BT DORM SENTIALSFAYLGBTQJUNE 27, 2022GAY PARENTS SPEAK OUT ABOUT STGGLE TO BUILD A FAY
• GROWG UP WH GAY PARENTS: WHAT IS THE BIG AL?*
• GAY UPL AS PARENTS?
• GAY PARENTS AS GOOD AS STRAIGHT ON
• ‘WE ARE EXPECTED TO BE OK WH NOT HAVG CHILDREN’: HOW GAY PARENTHOOD THROUGH SURROGACY BEME A BATTLEGROUND
• WHY GAY PARENTS MAY BE THE BT PARENTS
• PARENTG A GAY CHILD
• POLICY CHANG ANNOUNCED FOR MEMBERS GAY MARRIAG, CHILDREN OF LGBT PARENTS
• GAY PARENTG: 'S PLITED
• GAY PARENTS SPEAK OUT ABOUT STGGLE TO BUILD A FAY

GAY UPLE WHO WENT VIRAL FOR THEIR TRADNAL WEDDG SET TO BEE PARENTS SOON. VIRAL

NewsTrendg NewsGay uple who went viral for their tradnal weddg set to bee parents soonAm Shah and Adya Madiraju went viral overnight back 2019 after pictur of their betiful, tradnal weddg were loved by the ter. A gay uple om Geia charged wh moltg their two adopted sons and g them to rerd child porn also allegedly pimped them out to members of a lol pedophile rg, acrdg to a disturbg new report.

Adoptive gay uple charged wh sodomizg their adopted sons also 'pimped them out to lol men and sent out vios of them rapg the boys': Full horror of mysterly wealthy uple's sordid liv revealed jaw-droppg urt docsZachary Zulock and his hband William are jail on child sex abe charg Not only did they rape their sons, police say they offered them to other menThey also sent vios of the abe to 12 people, arrt documents claim Published: 13:34 BST, 20 January 2023 | Updated: 20:14 BST, 2 Febary 2023. A mysterly wealthy gay uple om Atlanta who have been charged wh sodomizg their adopted sons also pimped them out to other lol men, disturbg new documents reveal. A gay uple Geia have been acced of sexually abg and “pimpg out” their adopted children, as well as producg distributg homema child pornography, acrdg to reports.

Gay uple charged wh moltg their adopted sons also pimped them out to pedophile rg, report claims — New York Post (@nypost) January 20, 2023 Acrdg to a 17-unt dictment obtaed by Townhall, the uple allegedly performed oral sex on the boys, forced the children to perform oral sex on them and one stance anally raped the olr child to the pot of jury.

GAY UPLE CHARGED WH MOLTG THEIR ADOPTED SONS ALSO PIMPED THEM OUT TO PEDOPHILE RG, REPORT CLAIMS

Ten narrative studi volvg fay histori of 262 children of gay fathers and lbian mothers were evaluated statistilly rponse to Morrison's (2007) ncerns about Cameron's (2006) rearch that had volved three narrative studi. Dpe numero attempts to bias the rults favour of the null hypothis and allowg for up to 20 (of 63, 32%) dg errors, Cameron's (2006) hypothis that gay and lbian parents would be more likely to have gay, lbian, bisexual or unsure (of sexual orientatn) sons and dghters was nfirmed.

Data om ethnographic sourc and om prev studi on gay and lbian parentg were re-examed and found to support the hypothis that social and parental fluenc may fluence the exprsn of non-heterosexual inti and/or behavur. "When we first started nsirg beg parents for the first time, the rmatn that we had, what was out there was that our optns would be really limed bee we were a gay uple, " Frenzer told "Good Morng Ameri. Where gay upl uld adopt children and prently, there are still some stat that perm taxpayer-fund adoptn and foster re agenci to turn away qualified, would-be parents bee they are the movie "Juno" me out 2007, Frenzer and Stter were spired by one scene the film to take out ads PennySaver papers and spread the word that they were lookg to adopt.

SAME-SEX COUPLE AM AND ADYA SET TO BEE PARENTS SOONAM SHAH AND ADYA MADIRAJU GOT MARRIED A TRADNAL HDU-STYLE WEDDG 2019.QUT NEONPUBLISHED: 09 JAN 2023, 4:19 PM ISTSOCIAL BUZZ1 M READISHARE ON THE QUT DAILY

'"It may have sound like a long shot but Frenzer and Stter's PennySaver tactic worked and the uple said they're grateful for their fay, addn to adoptn, gay men n also nsir other optns such as surrogacy and IVF to build their fai.

"Soon after gay marriage was passed around the untry, more and more men started to e reproductive medice to have children, " Lisa Schuman, the director and founr of the Center for Fay Buildg New York, told "GMA.

GAY ATLANTA UPLE CHARGED WH RAPG ADOPTED SONS ALSO 'PIMPED THEM OUT TO OTHER LOL PEDOPHIL'

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. 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.

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. 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). The study is noteworthy for several reasons: (1) his study sample was large, reprentative, and populatn-based (not a small, self-selected group); (2) Regnes studied the rpons of adult children rather than askg same-sex parents to scribe how their young pennt children are dog; and (3) he was able to draw parisons on up to 80 measur for children who had lived wh (or had) parents who fell to one of eight tegori—tact fai wh both blogil parents who were married to each other, lbian mothers, gay fathers, heterosexual sgle parents, parents who later divorced, habg parents, parents who adopted the rponnt, and other (such as a ceased parent).

GAY COUPLE ACCED OF SEXUALLY ABG, ‘PIMPG OUT’ ADOPTED CHILDREN

4) as prevalent among children wh same-sex parents than the general populatn, after ntrollg for age, sex, ethnicy, and parent soc-enomic stat (Sulls 2015b) n one rencile the signifint fdgs wh the wily publicized studi showg no harmful effects to children who have, or have lived wh, lbian or gay parents? For example, 2005, the Amerin Psychologil Associatn (APA) issued an official brief on lbian and gay parentg, which clud this assertn: “Not a sgle study has found children of lbian and gay parents to be disadvantaged any signifint rpect relative to children of heterosexual parents” (Amerin Psychologil Associatn 2005). The thor remend further flaws exist the vast majory of studi published before 2012 on this subject (Marks 2012) cludg the fact that they relied upon small, nonreprentative sampl that are not reprentative of children typil homosexual fai the Uned major studi, published by Gartrell and Bos (2010) and Biblarz and Stacey (2010), are often ced by gay activists and extensively the media.

While ’s difficult to timate exactly how many gay upl raisg kids there are the Uned Stat today, ’s safe to say that this number has greatly creased over the past uple of s. Progrsive attus and acceptance have helped to normalize gay and lbian parentg and, rponse, many LGBT upl have been able to easily achieve their dream of raisg a child together.

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Children of lbian and gay parents are as likely as those of heterosexual parents to flourish” and that any discrimatn agast homosexual parentg should be strongly opposed. However, as you likely know, jt bee there is no evince agast beg a gay parent and raisg children, there are still people who will oppose the ia of gay upl raisg a child. When you first ci to bee gay adoptive parents, ’s important that you seek out a profsnal who is willg and exced to work wh an LGBT uple like yourself.

Some gay and lbian parents worry that they will never be chosen by a prospective birth mother or surrogate bee of their sexual orientatn — but this is a very rare occurrence. Emphasize that jt bee you and your spoe are gay don’t mean you’re any different om your child’s iends’ parents; you will still love your child and re for them jt as much any other parents do.

GROWG UP WH GAY PARENTS: WHAT IS THE BIG AL?*

When the Supreme Court took up the issue of gay marriage last month, Jtice Anton Slia claimed that experts bate whether same-sex parents are bad for children.

Siegel, a School of Medice profsor of pediatrics, thored a report, published by the Amerin Amy of Pediatrics the week before the urt se, argug that three s of rearch ncur that kids of gay parents are dog jt fe.

In an terview wh BU Today, Siegel acknowledg the lims of all this rearch: none of the studi has been a randomized, ntrolled trial—the Holy Grail of scientific vtigatn—and all studi of gay parentg are necsarily small, sce there aren’t many gay parents.

GAY UPL AS PARENTS?

A dissentg Atralian study, Siegel and Perr wre, terviewed teachers of 58 children who’d been raised varly by married heterosexuals, unmarried heterosexuals livg together, and gay parents livg together. Even that study found mixed rults (the children of gay parents did more poorly language and math, but better social studi and attus toward learng, for example). Moreover, most children the study wound up wh gay parents bee their straight birth parents had divorced, “potentially addg to the children’s strs, ” Siegel and Perr wre.

” Wh marriage equaly won years ago, they expected to be able to have a nventnal married months before their weddg, a targeted ad om an anisatn lled Gay Parents to Be land Maggipto’s Instagram feed, offerg ee nsultatns wh a fertily doctor who’d give them “the whole ndown” on how they uld start a fay. “We had the appotment and we were 100% on the same page – let’s move forward wh this, ” says ’s when they first beme aware of the eye-waterg st of blogil parenthood for gay men. That meant straight people and lbians workg for the Cy of New York would have the sts of IVF vered, but gay male upl uld never be isn’t an oversight, ’s discrimatn, Brisk says.

If they w, employers and health surers across the US will be unr prsure to change their polici to give gay men the same accs to fertily benefs as anyone else. But brgg a fertily equaly claim that took eventual surrogacy for granted, they had unwtgly stumbled to the le of fire of one of the great culture wars of our age: whether anyone – but gay men particular – should be able to pay to e a woman’s body.

GAY PARENTS AS GOOD AS STRAIGHT ON

In England and Wal, the number of parents g a surrogate has quadpled over the past 10 years, but is always ntroversial: high-profile gay men om Brian Dowlg to Tom Daley have been acced of exploatn, “womb rental” and even “child abe” when they go public about creatg their fai wh a surrogate.

” He is referrg to the Amerin Society for Reproductive Medice’s guil, but wh no official regulatn the US, there’s no pulsn for anyone to follow to the fear that gay surrogacy eras mothers, Maggipto is fiant. “Gay men now want surance pani to treat beg born male as a disabily or as a protected tegory, one which requir paid pensatn, ” she wrote an article for a femist webse published a few days after the men filed their plat.

‘WE ARE EXPECTED TO BE OK WH NOT HAVG CHILDREN’: HOW GAY PARENTHOOD THROUGH SURROGACY BEME A BATTLEGROUND

“If you balance the women who uld die pregnancy, the women who uld bee fertile bee of their eggs beg harvted, who mt endure pa and loss of time a way not mensurate to what they are beg paid, agast this new sire of a gay male uple to e surrogacy as their first optn, I thk the balance of sufferg is more on the female si. She signed up to donate bone marrow, then offered to rry a baby for a iend who was stgglg wh fertily issu; when her iend cled, she went onle and found a surrogacy agency who matched her wh a gay man om the Cayman didn’t matter to her that he was sgle.

”‘More and more people the male gay muny are thkg of parentg at a younger and younger age, ” says Ron Poole-Dayan, executive director of Men Havg Babi.

“After the mographic disptn of the Aids panmic, gay people have bee more able and likely to form stable relatnships, that creasgly got more social regnn.

WHY GAY PARENTS MAY BE THE BT PARENTS

” Jt like everyone else, the cy’s first rponse was to assume this was all about accs to they wa for a cisn, Maggipto and Brisk mt endure the heartache of watchg the children of their wealthy gay iends grow up. 9), Pope Benedict lled gay marriage a threat "to the future of humany self, " cg the need for children to have heterosexual rearch on fai head by gays and lbians don't back up the dire assertns. In fact, some ways, gay parents may brg talents to the table that straight parents don' parents "tend to be more motivated, more mted than heterosexual parents on average, bee they chose to be parents, " said Abbie Goldberg, a psychologist at Clark Universy Massachetts who rearch gay and lbian parentg.

"And while rearch dit that kids of gay parents show few differenc achievement, mental health, social functng and other measur, the kids may have the advantage of open-mdns, tolerance and role mols for equable relatnships, acrdg to some rearch. ) [5 Myths About Gay People Debunked]Adoptg the needitGay adoptn recently ed ntroversy Illois, where Catholic Chari adoptn servic cid November to cease offerg servic bee the state refed fundg unls the groups agreed not to discrimate agast gays and lbians. Acrdg to a 2007 report by the Williams Instute and the Urban Instute, 65, 000 kids were livg wh adoptive gay parents between 2000 and 2002, wh another 14, 000 foster hom head by gays and lbians.

PARENTG A GAY CHILD

Donaldson Adoptn Instute found that, of gay and lbian adoptns at more than 300 agenci, 10 percent of the kids placed were olr than 6 — typilly a very difficult age to adopt out.

More than half of the kids adopted by gays and lbians had special report didn't pare the adoptn preferenc of gay upl directly wh those of heterosexual upl, said thor David Brodzsky, rearch director at the Instute and -edor of "Adoptn By Lbians and Gay Men: A New Dimensn of Fay Diversy" (Oxford Universy Prs, 2011). Part of that uld be their own preferenc, and part uld be bee of discrimatn by adoptn agenci that puts more difficult children wh what seworkers see as "ls sirable" matter how you slice , Brodzsky told LiveScience, gays and lbians are highly terted adoptn as a group.

POLICY CHANG ANNOUNCED FOR MEMBERS GAY MARRIAG, CHILDREN OF LGBT PARENTS

"When you thk about the 114, 000 children who are eed for adoptn who ntue to live foster re and who are not beg readily adopted, the goal is to crease the pool of available, terted and well-traed dividuals to parent the children, " Brodzsky addn, Brodzsky said, there's evince to suggt that gays and lbians are pecially acceptg of open adoptns, where the child retas some ntact wh his or her birth parents. "Intertgly, we fd that a small percentage, but enough to be noteworthy, [of birth mothers] make a nsc cisn to place wh gay men, so they n be the only mother their child's life, " Brodzsky parentgRearch has shown that the kids of same-sex upl — both adopted and blogil kids — fare no worse than the kids of straight upl on mental health, social functng, school performance and a variety of other life-succs a 2010 review of virtually every study on gay parentg, New York Universy soclogist Judh Stacey and Universy of Southern California soclogist Tim Biblarz found no differenc between children raised hom wh two heterosexual parents and children raised wh lbian parents. "There's no doubt whatsoever om the rearch that children wh two lbian parents are growg up to be jt as well-adjted and succsful" as children wh a male and a female parent, " Stacey told is very ltle rearch on the children of gay men, so Stacey and Biblarz uldn't draw nclns on those fai.

But Stacey spects that gay men "will be the bt parents on average, " she 's a speculatn, she said, but if lbian parents have to really plan to have a child, 's even harr for gay men. [6 Genr Myths Bted]Nurturg toleranceIn fact, the only nsistent plac you fd differenc between how kids of gay parents and kids of straight parents turn out are issu of tolerance and open-mdns, acrdg to Goldberg. "The dividuals feel like their perspectiv on fay, on genr, on sexualy have largely been enhanced by growg up wh gay parents, " Goldberg 33-year-old man wh a lbian mother told Goldberg, "I feel I'm a more open, well-round person for havg been raised a nontradnal fay, and I thk those that know me would agree.

GAY PARENTG: 'S PLITED

"In her rearch, Goldberg has found that many children of gay and lbian parents say that more acceptance of gay and lbian fai, not ls, would help solve this a study published onle Jan.

11, 2012, the Journal of Marriage and Fay, Goldberg terviewed another group of 49 teenagers and young adults wh gay parents and found that not one of them rejected the right of gays and lbians to marry.

GAY PARENTS SPEAK OUT ABOUT STGGLE TO BUILD A FAY

I grew up outsi of New York Cy, the meltg pot, attend llege and worked New York, yet when I found out my son, Jam, age 13, was gay, I reverted to "not my backyard.

When I terviewed straight parents for When Your Child Is Gay, they ed words such as fear, shock, helplsns, strs, and extreme sadns to scribe their experienc wh nial.