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 …
Contents:
- WHAT DO THE SCHOLARLY REARCH SAY ABOUT THE WELL-BEG OF CHILDREN WH GAY OR LBIAN PARENTS?
- KIDS OF GAY PARENTS FARE WORSE, STUDY FDS, BUT REARCH DRAWS FIRE OM EXPERTS
- LBIAN AND GAY PARENTG
- GROWG UP WH GAY PARENTS: WHAT IS THE BIG AL?*
WHAT DO THE SCHOLARLY REARCH SAY ABOUT THE WELL-BEG OF CHILDREN WH GAY OR LBIAN PARENTS?
* statistics on kids raised by gay parents *
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.
KIDS OF GAY PARENTS FARE WORSE, STUDY FDS, BUT REARCH DRAWS FIRE OM EXPERTS
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 * statistics on kids raised by gay parents *
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. 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. 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.
LBIAN AND GAY PARENTG
At most a handful of the children who were studied were actually raised by same-sex parents; the rt me om fai which oppose-sex parents raised their children for a perd of time, but which, often, one or more parent(s) subsequently me out as gay or lbian and left the fay or had a same-sex relatnship.
Includg such children among those labeled as havg been “raised by same-sex parents” is so misleadg as to be accurate, sce the children were generally raised by oppose-sex fai and only later, after a fay disptn, did they live hoeholds wh one or more gay parent(s), and only rarely did two parents of the same sex, a stable, long-term relatnship, actually raise the children together.
GROWG UP WH GAY PARENTS: WHAT IS THE BIG AL?*
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. ” Some versns of the poster also clu a rogatory word for the gay posts (here) clu the url “” – scribed by the Anti-Defamatn League as “a now-funct whe supremacist discsn fom” (here) – the bottom left rner of the archived page of that webse () shows that a er published the poster on March 4, 2017 wh the text: “I got some new hate facts here, h off the prs. ”“Instead, he draws sweepg, outlier nclns (74 studi llected by my rearch team at Columbia Law School’s What We Know Project, which aggregat scholarship wh public policy implitns, have found that parent sexual orientatn do not affect the wellbeg of children) that n only be reached by fudgg the way gay- or lbian-head hoeholds are discsed and pared to hoeholds head by heterosexuals, ” Frank, now at the Center for the Study of Inequaly at Cornell Universy (), (here), article’s “nflatn of hoehold stabily wh parent genr fatally mars his nclns, which are much more damng of gay and lbian parentg than are warranted by his data, ” Frank 2018, the Southern Poverty Law Center nounced the study as “psdoscience” an article (here) N.