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The article is based upon a new book from Abbie E. Goldberg, an assistant professor in the department of psychology at Clark University, that reviews more than 100 research studies about this very topic — how do children of lesbian mothers (mostly, as gay dads haven’t been studied as much) fare? Dr. Goldberg summarizes her findings — “These children do just fine.” She didn’t find any negative impact to children being raised in a gay household.
I can tell by your quick response that you didn't even bother to read the study and just quickly dismissed everything just because you don't like the sources. Is that how we deny ignorance these days?
Originally posted by greeneyedleo
reply to post by Violater1
I dont(SIC) need to. Fact is, gay marriage is pretty much illegal almost everywhere. Straight marraige(SIC) is not. As is gay adoption by gay couples is way less than straight couples.
[edit on February 24th 2010 by greeneyedleo]
Parents who fight continually and cause mass amounts of stress in their kids lives? Cheating parents? Fathers who hit their mothers? Mothers strung out on prescrip drugs because her husband wants nothing to do with her?
During his presentation, George A. Rekers, professor of Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Science at the University of South Carolina, said that “boys and girls adopted by lesbian and homosexual couples show a greater level of stress than that which is already generated by their status as orphans or children abandoned by their biological parents.”
Originally posted by greeneyedleo
Originally posted by Dock9
As for 'love being love' .... tell that to the kid who just wants to conform and just wants a 'normal' set of parents
WHAT is normal? Divorced parents? Straight parents who hate each other and make it known to all? Parents who fight continually and cause mass amounts of stress in their kids lives? Cheating parents? Fathers who hit their mothers? Mothers strung out on prescrip drugs because her husband wants nothing to do with her?
Seriously? We are comparing gay parents to straight parents and trying to define NORMAL?
No. Dont think so. Straight parents have a plethora of problems that cause much more stress then 2 gay parents who love each other and are raising happy healthy kids.
I come from straight parents. And I can go on and on and on with stories on how they nearly screwed up my life with their crappy parenting and all their personal issues that affected the family.
There is NOBODY that will ever convince me that gay parents are worse than straight parents. I do not see this in the world we live in. Nope!
[edit on February 24th 2010 by greeneyedleo]
Originally posted by Dock9
There are not many teens or adults around who haven't walked into their parents' bedroom unexpectedly and seen more than they bargained for
At least if the parents are heterosexual, the child has a frame of reference, based on movies, sculpture, paintings and other kids' tales
What must it do to a teenage boy or girl to find his/her same-sex parents engaging in sex ?
Or even to see Jamie and Oliver groping each other whilst tipsy at 'their child's' fifteenth birthday party ?
Then there's the oft-repeated maxim re: a child falling in love with/marrying someone very similar to the parent of the opposite sex
How's that work for kids adopted by homosexuals ?
How are the psychiatrists spinning that one, these days ?
Originally posted by Dock9
Is it being claimed that this professor of neuropsychiatry and behavioral science has deliberately skewed his research ?