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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

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. ”[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.

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

”[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?*

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.

GAY PARENTS RAISG KIDS: HOW WILL THEY FARE?

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. [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.

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.

GAY PARENTS AS GOOD AS STRAIGHT ON

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. The past several s have seen a proliferatn of studi on lbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) parentg, wh creased attentn to (a) fay buildg by LGB people; (b) the transn to parenthood for LGB parents; and (c) functng and experienc of LGB parents and their children.

The limed available data on LGB-parent fai formed through surrogacy suggts that this optn is ed primarily by affluent gay men. Condns lked to poorer well-beg for LG parents clu: livg ls supportive legal ntexts, perceivg ls support om fay or supervisors, havg higher levels of ternalized homophobia, and enunterg more child behavr problems.

Rearchers have found few differenc between children raised by lbian and heterosexual parents terms of self-teem, qualy of life, psychologil adjtment, or social functng (rearch on the psychosocial out of children wh gay male parents is limed). 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. Rearch on lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, and other sexual and genr mory (LGBTQ+) parents and their children has found that both parents and children are generally well adjted and that they do not differ well-beg or multiple velopmental out om parents and children the general populatn.