Sunday, June 24, 2012

The Kids Aren't Alright

It is always interesting when research affirms what common sense and tradition have long dictated.
The widely circulated claim that parents engaged in same-sex relationships do just as well as other parents at raising children—a claim widely known today as the “no differences” thesis—is not settled science. Two new peer-reviewed studies released this week by the academic journal Social Science Research challenge the claim that there are no differences in outcomes between children raised by parents who have same-sex relationships and those raised by their biological mother and father in intact, stable marriages. (Read entire post.)
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1 comment:

julygirl said...

I believe the premise is that children raised in a same sex relationship will themselves also become homosexual....not whether they are going to develop more or less emotional problems than children raised in an intact heterosexual family.