Kids of gay parents fare worse, study fds, but rearch draws fire om experts - CBS News

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• KIDS OF GAY PARENTS FARE WORSE, STUDY FDS, BUT REARCH DRAWS FIRE OM EXPERTS
• 2 MILLN KIDS RAISED BY GAY COUPL ARE AT RISK, SAYS STUDY
• CENS 2010: ONE-QUARTER OF GAY COUPL RAISG CHILDREN
• LBIAN AND GAY PARENTG

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

”When the enomists ntrolled for e and wealth, there were a much smaller gap between the tt sr of children of same-sex parents and children different-sex parents, although children of homosexual upl still had slightly higher prr studi have found no statistil difference the tnal performance or well-brg of children om gay or lbian upl (a few have found negative effects), but this latt rearch was also able to ntrol for the effects of divorce, which often has a negative impact on school performance and n skew rults. 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.

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. 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. In fact, one prehensive study of children raised by lbian mothers or gay fathers nclud that children raised by same-sex parents did not differ om other children terms of emotnal functng, sexual orientatn, stigmatizatn, genr role behavr, behavral adjtment, genr inty, learng and gra pot averag.

Though many fay relatnships may be plex, explag fay relatnships is uniquely plex for lbian and gay parented fai bee of the lack of societal norms and relevant exampl media, stereotyped notns about such relatnships that are mon, and the fear of discrimatn faced by the fai. Competent parentg may be fluenced by gay and lbian parents’ abily to accept and acknowledge their inty and how they are able to negotiate livg a heterosexist, homophobic, or otherwise discrimatory society, while rearg their children a fay un that is not socially sanctned.

2 MILLN KIDS RAISED BY GAY COUPL ARE AT RISK, SAYS STUDY

The Amerin Psychologil Associatn (APA) reported on gay parentg, wh Loren Marks, associate profsor at the School of Human Elogy at Louisiana State Universy, statg that “Not a sgle study has found children of lbian or gay parents to be disadvantaged any signifint rpect relative to children of heterosexual parents” (Marks 2012). This study uld jt be a rult of chance, as the numbers of children wh homosexual parents were low, or other factors uld go to the negative rults of the 40 unknown “tegori” such as the stcture of the way the tegori are word or set up, which uld be due to Regnes’s own personal bias.

"Acrdg to the 2010 Cens, two ln children the Uned Stat are beg raised by lbian, bisexual, gay and transgenr parents (LGBT), the majory of them southern upl livg Mississippi are the most likely to be raisg children, followed by Louisiana and now a new study, "All Children Matter, " nclus that the children have bee the "llateral damage" of laws and polici that discrimate agast LGBT report jt as the Senate Judiciary Commtee is set to beg bate Nov. "It's jt wrong, and I don't thk the majory of Amerins and policy makers really unrstand the lack of regnn for the fai has this kd of impact and harms kids, " she Carola is among the top 12 stat where LGBT upl are raisg children, but also among those wh the least gay-iendly December, a a state judge validated all send-parent adoptns by same-sex upl. It is also exprsly banned four other stat, Arkansas, Florida, Mississippi and Utah, acrdg to the Fay Equaly adoptn is only allowed for same-sex upl 10 stat and the District of Columbia, as well as 16 other stat some last month, the state legislature narrowly approved puttg the qutn of whether to impose a nstutnal ban on gay marriage to Rev.

Patterson, a profsor of psychology at Universy of Virgia and director of women and genr studied pre-school children livg stat where their same-sex parents were legally regnized by the law and found "overall, they are velopg very well as a group and not different their adjtment, whether their parents were gay or straight. They said ma sense for Reighard to get North Carola health clic where they went for artificial sematn would only do for same-sex upl wh a 150-e radi and also required them to go to unselg, somethg not required of heterosexual lawyer told them they uld try to get a send parent adoptn, which would have st $5, 000 to $7, 000, but then the state validated adoptns for gay Zoe was sick, their lawyer managed to fax the required legal paper to the hospal several hours later.

CENS 2010: ONE-QUARTER OF GAY COUPL RAISG CHILDREN

In fact, studi have shown that while the emotnal and mental health of children raised by heterosexual upl is sentially the same as those raised by gay parents, children of same-sex upl are more open-md and empathetic, more self-aware, more apt at munitg their feelgs. Although adolcents and young adults reared by LGB parents are no more likely to self-intify as exclively lbian/gay than those reared by heterosexual parents, havg a lbian mother was associated wh a greater likelihood of nsirg or havg a same-sex relatnship, and more expansive, ls tegoril notns of sexualy. Cens data, providg one of the first portras of gay Amerin the first time ever, the cens unts same-sex upl and their children, and as data trickl out state by state, more gay fai are beg tallied the last week, reports om Hawaii and Alabama -- two very different stat geographilly and socially -- revealed that 27 and 23 percent of same-sex upl were raisg children, rpectively, acrdg to an analysis by the Williams Instute, a UCLA School of Law thk tank that foc on lbian, bisexual, gay and transgenr released today on five more stat showed that 28 percent of fai Wyomg are raisg children.

In California, the percentage is 21 percent; Delaware, 19 percent; Kansas, 26 percent; and Pennsylvania, 20 emergg profile of same-sex fai jt as New York legislators are poised to vote on a bill that uld legalize gay ntroversial bill is one vote away om beg passed and uld make New York the sixth and largt state to legalize same-sex other stat -- Massachetts, Connecticut, Iowa, Vermont and New Hampshire, as well as the District of Columbia -- allow gay marriage.. Of those, 3, 069 or 27 percent are raisg timated 42 percent of all heterosexual upl are raisg children Alabama and 42 percent Hawaii, acrdg to the has a substantially larger ncentratn of same-sex hoeholds, but child-rearg by the upl is higher rat of child-rearg by gay upl is also seen ral stat like Wyomg (28 percent) and Kansas (26 percent).

LBIAN AND GAY PARENTG

4 Percent of Amerins Are GayAn April report by the Williams Instute revealed that an timated 4 percent of Amerins are lbian, bisexual, gay or analysis of 2000 Cens data suggted that more than 250, 000 children the Uned Stat are beg raised by lbian and gay cens only asks whether a uple (same-sex or different-sex) have children, untg only the number of "hoeholrs wh children" and not the actual size of the fay. "Children unr 18 clu those who have been nceived by one partner or adopted, as well as children om prr relatnships and "related" siblgs or noted that the number of same-sex upl who are adoptg has doubled, om 8 percent to 19 percent, even stat where they nnot legally marry, acrdg to rearch by The New York, more than 80 percent of the children beg raised by gay upl are not adopted, acrdg to Gat.

And the largt number of children same-sex fai are a rult of prev heterosexual Alabama data reflects a growg trend: a large number of children beg raised by gay fai the socially nservative southern stat, acrdg to the Williams and lbians tend to e out later life muni where they are stigmatized, acrdg to Gat. Unlike heterosexual parents and their children, however, lbian and gay parents and their children are often subject to prejudice bee of their sexual orientatn that n turn judg, legislators, profsnals, and the public agast them, sometim rultg negative out, such as loss of physil ctody, rtrictns on visatn, and prohibns agast adoptn (ACLU Lbian and Gay Rights Project, 2002; Appell, 2003; Patterson, Fulcher, & Waright, 2002).