It's Official: 'Gay' Family Children More Troubled

[_bcspace]

The University of Texas at Austin says it has investigated and found no evidence of research misconduct in a study that found adult children from “gay” families are “more apt to report being unemployed, less healthy, more depressed, more likely to have cheated on a spouse or partner, smoke more pot, had trouble with the law…” than children from traditional mom-and-dad households.

“The University of Texas at Austin has determined that no formal investigation is warranted into the allegations of scientific misconduct lodged against associate professor Mark Regnerus regarding his July article in the journal Social Science Research,” the school announced yesterday.

It said a four-member advisory panel of senior university faculty members was consulted and an outside consultant, Alan Price, was asked to review the charges as part of the university inquiry into allegations made by Scott Rosensweig in a letter to the school.

The conclusion was that the issues raised fell under the clause that “ordinary errors, good faith differences in interpretations of or judgments of data, scholarly or political disagreements, good faith personal or professional opinions, or private moral and ethical behavior or views are not misconduct.”

The university said it considers the issue closed, after school Research Integrity Officer Robert Peterson told officials “none of the allegations of scientific misconduct put forth by Mr. [Rosensweig was] substantiated either by physical data, written materials, or by information provided during the interviews.”

He wrote “there is no evidence” to support Rosensweig’s inference that because he believed the research was flawed, there must be scientific misconduct.

http://www.wnd.com/2012/08/affirmed-study-that-gay-family-children-more-troubled/?cat_orig=us

[_Bond James Bond]

Might they be more depressed, smoke more pot, less healthy if they weren't accepted by their parents/society?

Might they be more likely to cheat on a spouse if they're...you know, gay, and not truly attracted to their nominal spouse?

[_ldsfaqs]

Fact is, is that being gay IS and always was a "mental and moral disorder".
Pedophiles think their pedophilia is just as much a part of them as gays do.
That doesn't make it "right" OR "normal". Same for being gay.

The political correctness of the gay issue doesn't do anyone a service, especially gays.
It's a brain and thought disorder, and should be treated as such.

[_Drifting]

Fact is, is that being gay IS and always was a "mental and moral disorder".
Pedophiles think their pedophilia is just as much a part of them as gays do.
That doesn't make it "right" OR "normal". Same for being gay.

The political correctness of the gay issue doesn't do anyone a service, especially gays.
It's a brain and thought disorder, and should be treated as such.

It's good that you don't have a bigoted view of homosexuality...

[_beastie]

bc is reminding me more and more of wade englund and his continual obsession with homosexuality.

[_palerobber]

Fact is, is that being gay IS and always was a "mental and moral disorder".
Pedophiles think their pedophilia is just as much a part of them as gays do.
That doesn't make it "right" OR "normal". Same for being gay.

The political correctness of the gay issue doesn't do anyone a service, especially gays.
It's a brain and thought disorder, and should be treated as such.

“F” off, ldsfaqs.

your warped and disgusting views are not welcome here or anywhere else in our society.

[_beastie]

bcspace has stated he'd rather see his children drowned like a bag of kittens, If I recall correctly, then be gay.*

So if attitudes like his are prevalent, of course gay children are more troubled.

*actually, that was gazelam, not bcspace. Point still stands.

[_EAllusion]

beastie -

The person in question was cleared of scientific misconduct charges by an in-house investigation. This isn't the same thing as saying his publication was solidly backed. Rather there wasn't a sufficient case that he actively engaged in misconduct to produce it. He could just be incompetent in good faith.

[_palerobber]

aside from any allegations of misconduct, there's something very important i think every American voter ought to know about Regnerus' study.

his study absolutely did not find, as bcspace parroted, that...

[...] adult children from gay families are “more apt to report being unemployed, less healthy, more depressed, more likely to have cheated on a spouse or partner, smoke more pot, had trouble with the law…” than children from traditional mom-and-dad households.

indeed, it could not possibly have found that, because Regnerus didn't even study a sample of "adult children from gay families".

instead, out of the 248 adult children Regnerus selected for his "study group" only two -- less than 1% -- were from an intact gay family (i.e. two gay or lesbian partners living together throughout the subject's childhood). the remaining 99%+ had come from some variety of broken home where one of their biological parents -- short of actually even being gay -- had ever been involved in a same sex relationship, however brief. but now what about the "control group" Regnerus constructed of 2740 adult children of hetero parents? believe it or not, all 2740 of them -- 100% -- were drawn from intact biological famlies (excluding even those subjects from intact hetero step-parent households).

now i know nothing about the academic ethical standards that studies like this are expected to meet, but here's what we can say about this just from the standpoint of everyday ethics -- if a researcher does a study in which the overriding control factor is intact vs. broken households, and then goes out and presents his study as comparing gay vs. hetero households, then it's fair to say that this researcher (Regnerus) is a lying sack of crap.