Children fare better in traditional mom-dad families

[_bcspace]

Two studies released Sunday may act like brakes on popular social-science assertions that gay parents are the same as — or maybe better than — married, mother-father parents.

“The empirical claim that no notable differences exist must go,” Mark Regnerus, a sociology professor at the University of Texas at Austin, said in his study in Social Science Research.

Using a new, “gold standard” data set of nearly 3,000 randomly selected American young adults, Mr. Regnerus looked at their lives on 40 measures of social, emotional and relationship outcomes.

He found that, when compared with adults raised in married, mother-father families, adults raised by lesbian mothers had negative outcomes in 24 of 40 categories, while adults raised by gay fathers had negative outcomes in 19 categories.

Findings such as these do not support claims that there are “no differences” between gay parenting and heterosexual, married parents, said Mr. Regnerus, who helped develop the New Family Structures Study at the university.

Instead, “children appear most apt to succeed well as adults when they spend their entire childhood with their married mother and father, and especially when the parents remain married to the present day,” he wrote.

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The second study, also in Social Science Research, takes a critical look at the basis of an oft-cited American Psychological Association (APA) report on gay parenting.

The APA brief says, “Not a single study has found children of lesbian or gay parents to be disadvantaged in any significant respect relative to children of heterosexual parents,” said Loren Marks, associate professor at the School of Human Ecology at Louisiana State University.

However, after looking at the 59 studies that undergird this assertion, “the jury is still out,” Mr. Marks said. “The lack of high-quality data leaves the most significant questions [about gay parenting] unaddressed and unanswered.”

Problems with the APA-cited studies were their tiny size; dependence on wealthy, white, well-educated lesbian mothers; and a failure to examine common outcomes for children, such as their education, employment and risks for poverty, criminality, early childbearing, substance abuse and suicide. Instead, the APA studies often looked at children’s gender-role behaviors, emotional functioning and sexual identity.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jun/10/study-children-fare-better-traditional-mom-dad-fam/

[_Eric]

The APA brief says, “Not a single study has found children of lesbian or gay parents to be disadvantaged in any significant respect relative to children of heterosexual parents,” said Loren Marks, associate professor at the School of Human Ecology at Louisiana State University.

Is bcspace illiterate or just a troll?

[_Eric]

The article says:

The APA brief says, “Not a single study has found children of lesbian or gay parents to be disadvantaged in any significant respect relative to children of heterosexual parents,” said Loren Marks, associate professor at the School of Human Ecology at Louisiana State University.

You don't like the study's findings, fine. That doesn't mean you can say the study demonstrates the opposite of what it does.

P.S How long do we let Caiden Cowger post his gay hate speech here before we move it to Outer Darkness where it belongs?

If people can't report on actual events, like Daniel C. Peterson of BYU posting links to penis videos on Facebook, why should this moron be free to troll this board with thoughtless copy and pastes meant to "create a climate of hate or prejudice."

That's the textbook definition of hate speech, and it shouldn't be tolerated here.


E.T.A: I see that bcspace has edited his post to include the suggestion that I was raised in a homosexual household. Unlike bcspace, I'm a real person and somewhat of a public figure. Therefore, his hate speech seems to have moved into the realm of actual defamation and actionable libel. It will be interesting to see how the moderators react to this situation.

[_DarkHelmet]

It's from the Washington Times. You can probably find the same story in the LDS Church News.

[_Morley]

This severely flawed, unpublished study has been totally debunked.

Even the pop-science site live science has an article on its problems.

http://www.livescience.com/20882-sex-parenting-study-controversy.html

[_Milesius]

The APA brief says, “Not a single study has found children of lesbian or gay parents to be disadvantaged in any significant respect relative to children of heterosexual parents,” said Loren Marks, associate professor at the School of Human Ecology at Louisiana State University.

Is bcspace illiterate or just a troll?

I'd ask the same of you.

[_Milesius]

This severely flawed, unpublished study has been totally debunked.

Even the pop-science site live science has an article on its problems.

http://www.livescience.com/20882-sex-parenting-study-controversy.html

It has been published, and I'd say his study is superior to other studies that are cited by the gay rights lobby. It has been criticized but not "debunked," your delusions of adequacy notwithstanding. His decision to group as he did was based on statistical power considerations, which is something the imbeciles cited in live science should be familiar with.

[_Milesius]

The article says:

The APA brief says, “Not a single study has found children of lesbian or gay parents to be disadvantaged in any significant respect relative to children of heterosexual parents,” said Loren Marks, associate professor at the School of Human Ecology at Louisiana State University.

You don't like the study's findings, fine. That doesn't mean you can say the study demonstrates the opposite of what it does.

What are you talking about? Your posts on this topic are even more incoherent than usual.

[_Joe Geisner]

Credit should be given where credit is due. The Deseret News was the first to publish the article:

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/7655 ... tml?pg=all

And even more credit needs to be given to the Mormon Church and right wing fanatics.

http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/1- ... 6/10/41097

[_LittleNipper]

I feel the credit needs to go to GOD. He created Adam and Eve and not Adam and Bobby. GOD must have known that a Mother and Father are superior to anything else or HE would have designed things differently.