Children Raised by Gay and Lbian Parents Develop as Well as Kids of Heterosexual Coupl

Contents:

• GAY PARENTS RAISG KIDS: HOW WILL THEY FARE?
• WHAT DO THE SCHOLARLY REARCH SAY ABOUT THE WELL-BEG OF CHILDREN WH GAY OR LBIAN PARENTS?
• THE CHILDREN OF GAY PARENTS SPEAK FOR THEMSELV
• CHILDREN RAISED BY GAY AND LBIAN PARENTS DEVELOP AS WELL AS KIDS OF HETEROSEXUAL COUPL
• GROWG UP WH GAY PARENTS: WHAT IS THE BIG AL?*
• FOR GAY MEN, HAVG A BLOGIL CHILD N BE PLITED
• KIDS OF GAY PARENTS FARE WORSE, STUDY FDS, BUT REARCH DRAWS FIRE OM EXPERTS
• GAY PARENTS AS GOOD AS STRAIGHT ON

GAY PARENTS RAISG KIDS: HOW WILL THEY FARE?

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.

WHAT DO THE SCHOLARLY REARCH SAY ABOUT THE WELL-BEG OF CHILDREN WH GAY OR LBIAN PARENTS?

Should other gay parents be ncerned? The days, gay parents are no novelty: We see them strollg through our neighborhoods, participatg our PTA meetgs, and, perhaps most notably, appearg on our TV screens: Mchell and Cam, fathers to Lily, on the ratgs smash Morn Fay; Glee’s Sue Sylvter, expectant mom to a baby nceived wh an as-yet-unrevealed sperm donor, and Rachel’s dads, played wh humor and grace by Jeff Goldblum and Brian Stok.

The Hollywood exampl are important that they’ve helped prent gay parentg as not unlike straight parentg: challengg, joyful, plited, and most of all, entirely normal. Though this media mastreamifitn of gay parentg is a relatively new phenomenon, for s, gay parents have had children all sorts of fay nfiguratns—whether through adoptn, prev heterosexual relatnships, or, creasgly, by choosg to have blogil offsprg g vro, surrogate, and other methods.

THE CHILDREN OF GAY PARENTS SPEAK FOR THEMSELV

Last November Illois, Catholic Chari ceased s adoptn servic after the state refed fundg unls the groups agreed not to discrimate agast gays and lbians. Although gay and lbian parents are a powerful rource for kids need of adoptn—at least half of all children foster re the U.

CHILDREN RAISED BY GAY AND LBIAN PARENTS DEVELOP AS WELL AS KIDS OF HETEROSEXUAL COUPL

Are livg wh adoptive gay parents—Catholic Chari simply qu the bs rather than ply.

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

Earlier this month, when Print Obama announced his support for same sex marriage days after North Carola voted to ban , he changed the nversatn nsirably by argug that ncern for children is a reason to support, rather than oppose, gay marriage.

FOR GAY MEN, HAVG A BLOGIL CHILD N BE PLITED

He ced gay upl his own life, “same-sex upl who are as mted, as monogamo, as rponsible, as lovg a group of parents as any heterosexual uple that I know, ” he said.

” His support for gay marriage was self a landmark turn, but jt as notable was s direct affirmatn of gay upl as parents, which served to rebut the standard argument agast gay marriage—namely, that risks the well-beg of children and the fay. They want to know: How will the children of gay parents fare? Can kids raised homosexual hom turn out (gasp) okay?

KIDS OF GAY PARENTS FARE WORSE, STUDY FDS, BUT REARCH DRAWS FIRE OM EXPERTS

Throughout many years of workg wh fai, I’ve studied the liv of gay parents raisg sons and dghters.

GAY PARENTS AS GOOD AS STRAIGHT ON

In general, gay parents tend to be more motivated, more mted, and more thoughtful parents than heterosexual upl. In my work, I routely saw how, wh enough support om their fai, children of gay parents veloped skills at thkg penntly and standg up for what they believed .