bdamage wrote:
Growing Up with Gay Parents: What's the Big Deal?
Rick Fitzgibbons,
Sound studies show that the children of LGB parents fare less well than those growing up in other family arrangements
A very large body of social science research going back decades has documented the vital and unique role of mothers and of fathers in childhood development. These studies have also demonstrated the negative psychological, educational and social effects on children who have been deprived of growing up in a home with both biological parents who are married to each other.
A very brief summary of findings on the mothers unique and crucial role in childhood development would include these points:
1. Infants and toddlers prefer their mothers to their fathers when they seek solace or relief from hunger, fear, sickness or some other distress
2. Mothers tend to be more soothing
3. Mothers are more responsive to the distinctive cries of infants: they are better able than fathers, for example, to distinguish between their babys cry of hunger and cry of pain
4. They are also better than fathers at detecting their childrens emotions by looking at their faces, postures and gestures. Not surprisingly, then,
5. Children who were deprived of maternal care during extended periods in their early lives lacked feeling, had superficial relationships, and exhibited hostile or antisocial tendencies as they developed into adulthood. (R. Kobak, 1999)
Fathers also bring an array of distinctive talents to the parenting enterprise.
1. Fathers excel when it comes to providing discipline and play and challenging their children to embrace lifes challenges
2. Fathers provide essential role models for boys
3. A fathers presence in the home protects a child from fear and strengthens a childs ability to feel safe
The extensive research on the serious psychological, academic and social problems in youth raised in fatherless families demonstrates the importance of the presence of the father in the home for healthy childhood development.
Lets look, then, at some of the larger, well-designed studies that have shown the risks experienced by children who were deprived of growing up in a home with both biological parents who were married to each other.
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http://www.aleteia.org/en/lifestyle/article/growing-up-with-gay-parents-whats-the-big-deal-1-5869643663147008Growing Up with Gay Parents: What's the Big Deal? ... (
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A new study on homosexual parents tops all precious research
Sociologist Mark Regenrus of the University of Texas at Austin had overturned the conventional wisdom that children suffer no disadvantages when compared to children raised by their mother and father
There are 8 outcome variables where differences between the children of homosexual parents and married parents were not only present, and favorable to married parents, but where these findings were statistically significant for both children of lesbian mothers and gay fathers, both with and without controls. While all findings are important, these are the strongest possible ones-virtually irrefutable compared with children raised by their married parents (IBF), children of homosexual parents (LM) and (GF)
Are much more likely to receive welfare-IBF-17%, LM-69%, GF-57%
Have lower educational attainment
Report less safety and security in their family of origin
Are more likely to suffer depression
Have been arrested more often
If they are female, have had more sexual partners-both male and female
Are more likely to be co-habitating
Are almost 4 times more likely to be currently on public assistance
Are less likely to be currently employed
Are more than 3 times more likely to be unemployed
Nearly 4 times more likely to identify as something other than heterosexual
Are 3 times more likely to have had an affair while married or co-habitating
Are an astonishing 10 times more likely to have been "TOUCHED SEXUALLY by a PARENT or OTHER ADULT CAREGIVER"
Are 4 times as likely to have been PHYSICALLY FORCED to have SEX AGAINST THEIR WILL
Are more likely to have "attachment" problems related to the ability to depend on others
Use marijuana more frequently
Watch TV for long periods of more frequently
Have more often plead guilty to a non-minor offense
Children should never be allowed around homosexuals