What We Know | What do the scholarly rearch say about the well-beg of children wh gay or lbian parents? | What We Know

Contents:

• KIDS OF GAY PARENTS FARE WORSE, STUDY FDS, BUT REARCH DRAWS FIRE OM EXPERTS
• WHAT DO THE SCHOLARLY REARCH SAY ABOUT THE WELL-BEG OF CHILDREN WH GAY OR LBIAN PARENTS?
• FOR GAY MEN, HAVG A BLOGIL CHILD N BE PLITED
• ITALY BEGS REMOVG GAY MOTHERS OM CHILDREN’S BIRTH CERTIFIT
• A GAY COUPLE'S FIGHT FOR THEIR TW SON'S CIZENSHIP INSPIR
• GAY MARRIAGE: WHO’S MDG THE CHILDREN?
• GROWG UP WH GAY PARENTS: WHAT IS THE BIG AL?*
• POLICY CHANG ANNOUNCED FOR MEMBERS GAY MARRIAG, CHILDREN OF LGBT PARENTS

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

(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. But those earlier studi have advertently masked real diversy among gay and lbian parentg experienc Ameri.

WHAT DO THE SCHOLARLY REARCH SAY ABOUT THE WELL-BEG OF CHILDREN WH GAY OR LBIAN PARENTS?

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. 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.

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. Percentag of children of gay and lbian parents who adopted non-heterosexual inti ranged between 16% and 57%, wh odds rats of 1.

FOR GAY MEN, HAVG A BLOGIL CHILD N BE PLITED

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. Fay rejectn as a predictor of negative health out whe and Lato lbian, gay, and bisexual young adults. Overview: We intified 79 scholarly studi that met our creria for addg to knowledge about the well-beg of children wh gay or lbian parents.

ITALY BEGS REMOVG GAY MOTHERS OM CHILDREN’S BIRTH CERTIFIT

Of those studi, 75 nclud that children of gay or lbian parents fare no worse than other children. Taken together, this rearch forms an overwhelmg scholarly nsens, based on over three s of peer-reviewed rearch, that havg a gay or lbian parent do not harm children.

Evaluatg Studi that Conclu Gay Parentg Rais Risks: Wh regard to the four outlier studi, all share the same flaw.

A GAY COUPLE'S FIGHT FOR THEIR TW SON'S CIZENSHIP INSPIR

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.

GAY MARRIAGE: WHO’S MDG THE CHILDREN?

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. Authors of the outlier studi argue that, neverthels, such nfiguratns often reprent fai wh gay or lbian parents, and hence is reasonable to unt them as ditors of what happens when children live wh one or more gay parent(s).

GROWG UP WH GAY PARENTS: WHAT IS THE BIG AL?*

Evaluatg Studi that Fd No Differenc Rultg om Havg a Gay Parent: Some crics of the LGB parentg rearch object to the small, non-random samplg methods known as “nvenience samplg” that rearchers the field often e to gather their data.

Suggted Catn: What We Know Project, Cornell Universy, “What Do the Scholarly Rearch Say about the Well-Beg of Children wh Gay or Lbian Parents? Below are 75 studi ncludg that children of gay or lbian parents fare no worse than other children.

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POLICY CHANG ANNOUNCED FOR MEMBERS GAY MARRIAG, CHILDREN OF LGBT PARENTS

Wh gay marriage recently beg legal, many same-sex upl are cidg to adopt children and form a fay.

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). Of the 2, 988 people, 175 adults were raised by lbian mothers while 73 adults were raised by gay fathers. He found that adults raised by lbian mothers had negative out 24 of the 40 tegori, while adults raised by gay fathers had negative out 19 tegori.