A Southern California school board on Friday adopted a social studi curriculum that clus gay rights that was approved by parents and teachers after ially rejectg .
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- CALIFORNIA SCHOOL BOARD ADOPTS SOCIAL STUDI TEXTBOOKS THAT CLU GAY RIGHTS AFTER WARNGS OM ERNOR
- 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?
- GAY PARENTS AS GOOD AS STRAIGHT ON
CALIFORNIA SCHOOL BOARD ADOPTS SOCIAL STUDI TEXTBOOKS THAT CLU GAY RIGHTS AFTER WARNGS OM ERNOR
In s 2004 endorsement of what is monly referred to as the “no differenc” theory, the Amerin Psychologil Associatn (APA) clared that “there is no scientific evince that parentg effectivens is related to parental sexual orientatn: lbian and gay parents are as likely as heterosexual parents to provi supportive and healthy environments for their children,” and “rearch has shown that the adjtment, velopment, and psychologil well-beg of children is unrelated to parental sexual orientatn and that the children of lbian and gay parents are as likely as those * stats on gay parents *
This rearch brief offers analys om several data sourc to provi a mographic portra of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) parentg the Uned Stat. Analys of the 2008/2010 General Social Survey (GSS) timate that 37% of lbian, gay, or bisexual (LGB) intified dividuals have had a child.
” For example, the Amerin Psychologil Associatn (APA) stated 2005 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.
KIDS OF GAY PARENTS FARE WORSE, STUDY FDS, BUT REARCH DRAWS FIRE OM EXPERTS
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 … * stats on gay parents *
”[8] For example, a 2012 review of the 59 studi reported the 2005 APA brief on same-sex parentg “reveals a tenncy towards not only non-reprentative but racially homogeneo sampl. ”[9] Even studi of donor-semated (DI) parenthood “do not know the extent to which the paratively high socenomic stat of DI parents studied accurately reflects the mographics of lbian and gay parenthood generally.
GROWG UP WH GAY PARENTS: WHAT IS THE BIG AL?*
* stats on gay parents *
953–971; and Loren Marks, “Same-Sex Parentg and Children’s Out: A Closer Examatn of the Amerin Psychologil Associatn’s Brief on Lbian and Gay Parentg, ” Social Science Rearch, Vol. 341–344; Norman Anrssen, Christe Amlie, and Erlg Andre Ytterøy, “Out for Children wh Lbian or Gay Parents: A Review of Studi om 1978 to 2000, ” Sndavian Journal of Psychology, Vol.
224–240; William Meezan and Jonathan Rch, “Gay Marriage, Same-Sex Parentg, and Ameri’s Children, ” Future of Children, Vol. Reddg, “It’s Really About Sex: Same-Sex Marriage, Lbigay Parentg, and the Psychology of Disgt, ” De Journal of Genr Law & Policy, Vol.
GAY PARENTS RAISG KIDS: HOW WILL THEY FARE?
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 * stats on gay parents *
[20]Meezan and Rch, “Gay Marriage”; Lerner and Nagai, “No Basis”; Tasker, “Lbian Mothers”; and Anrssen et al., “Out for Children.
In the parisons, the study tak to nsiratn young adult children’s age, genr, race/ethnicy, mother’s tn level, perceived childhood hoehold e, experience beg bullied as a youth, and state’s legislative gay-iendls. In s 2004 endorsement of what is monly referred to as the “no differenc” theory, the Amerin Psychologil Associatn (APA) clared that “there is no scientific evince that parentg effectivens is related to parental sexual orientatn: lbian and gay parents are as likely as heterosexual parents to provi supportive and healthy environments for their children, ” and “rearch has shown that the adjtment, velopment, and psychologil well-beg of children is unrelated to parental sexual orientatn and that the children of lbian and gay parents are as likely as those of heterosexual parents to flourish. [3] Loren Marks, “Same-Sex Parentg and Children’s Out: A Closer Examatn of the Amerin Psychologil Associatn’s Brief on Lbian and Gay Parentg, ” Social Science Rearch, Vol.
GAY PARENTS AS GOOD AS STRAIGHT ON
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. 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.