typ-of-fai~Amerin Amy of Pediatrics (AAP) discs adoptn to gay and lbian dividual or fay hoeholds.
Contents:
- WHERE WE STAND: GAY AND LBIAN PARENTS
- KIDS OF GAY PARENTS FARE WORSE, STUDY FDS, BUT REARCH DRAWS FIRE OM EXPERTS
- ITALY BEGS REMOVG GAY MOTHERS OM CHILDREN’S BIRTH CERTIFIT
- GAY PARENTS RAISG KIDS: HOW WILL THEY FARE?
- THE CHILDREN OF GAY PARENTS SPEAK FOR THEMSELV
- PARENTS OF GAY CHILDREN AND THE ISSU THEY FACE
WHERE WE STAND: GAY AND LBIAN PARENTS
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Increasg numbers of children have been adopted by gay or lbian dividuals or upl recent years. A growg body of scientific lerature reveals that children who grow up wh one or two gay and/or lbian parents will velop emotnally, gnively, socially, and sexually as well as children whose parents are heterosexual. We believe that children who are born to, or adopted by, one member of a gay or lbian uple serve the secury of two legally regnized parents.
KIDS OF GAY PARENTS FARE WORSE, STUDY FDS, BUT REARCH DRAWS FIRE OM EXPERTS
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Therefore, we support statutory and legal means to enable children to be adopted by the send parent or parent fai head by gay and lbian upl.
ITALY BEGS REMOVG GAY MOTHERS OM CHILDREN’S BIRTH CERTIFIT
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 favou … * children from gay families *
Addnal Informatn:Gay and Lbian ParentsDifferent Typ of Fai: A Portra GalleryPromotg the Well-Beg of Children Whose Parents Are Gay or Lbian (AAP Policy Statement). (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.
GAY PARENTS RAISG KIDS: HOW WILL THEY FARE?
The days, gay parents are no novelty. * children from gay families *
But those earlier studi have advertently masked real diversy among gay and lbian parentg experienc Ameri.
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. "People gay or straight should stick wh their partners, he said.
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. It tells somethg important: We need fewer broken hom among gays, jt as we do among straights. Children of homosexuals more apt to be homosexuals?
THE CHILDREN OF GAY PARENTS SPEAK FOR THEMSELV
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. * children from gay families *
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.
PARENTS OF GAY CHILDREN AND THE ISSU THEY FACE
Gays Wh Kids is the ultimate onle rource for gay, bi and trans dads and dads-to-be. Bee a dad via surrogacy, adoptn, foster or -parentg. * children from gay families *
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.
Percentag of children of gay and lbian parents who adopted non-heterosexual inti ranged between 16% and 57%, wh odds rats of 1. 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.