Study proves gays make lousy parents

[Corp. Taxes Suck]

Conventional wisdom is that children of same-sex parents do as well as, or even better than children from intact, two-parent married households. Many studies make that assertion.



It is massively wrong according to a new, very large, thorough study published this week by the journal Social Science Research. It was written by Mark Regnerus, a scholar at the University of Texas. The New Family Structures Study, or NFSS, is a breakthrough report.

 

Regnerus compares how young adult children, aged 18-39, of a parent who has had a same-sex relationship fare on 40 different social, emotional and relational outcomes when compared with traditional and other families.

 

The biggest differences were between children of women who have had a lesbian relationship – and those raised by still-married biological parents.

 

Fully 69 percent of those with lesbian mothers were on welfare as children – four times the 17 percent in intact families ever had that experience. In fact, 38 percent of the adult children of lesbian mothers are currently on welfare versus only 10 percent of those with married parents. That's the same 4-1 ratio.

 

Only 8 percent of adult children from intact homes were unemployed when interviewed in 2011 versus 28 percent with a lesbian parent.

 

What's most shocking is that only two people of those with married parents were ever touched sexually by a parent or an adult – while 23 percent of those with a lesbian mother had that experience! Golly, they are 11 times more apt to be molested!

 

The design of the NFSS research was brilliant.

 

Most research on the impact of homosexual parenting has relied on interviews with same-sex parents who are from convenience samples.  For example, the National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study conducted last year "recruited entirely from self-selection from announcements posted at lesbian events, in women's bookstores and in lesbian newspapers in Boston, Washington and San Francisco."

 

Such a sample is biased toward including better-educated, wealthier people who visit bookstores. What about the less educated or less likely to be employed? They aren't interviewed. Of course, the children of these more affluent parents are more apt to do well.

 

By comparison, NFSS asked 3,000 young adults if either of their parents had a same-sex relationship while they were growing up. Result: 175 reported their mother was in a homosexual relationship, and 73 said the same about their father. That's about 1.7 percent, a figure comparable to other studies. The sampling was so carefully done that it included both those with listed phone numbers and those who only use cell phones (about half the total).

 

Only 23 percent said they had spent at least three years in the same household with a romantic partner of their mother; an additional 57 percent did so for at least four months.

 

Among those with a father in a homosexual relationship, fewer than 2 percent said they had spent at least three years in that household. These relationships are much more volatile and short lived, but neither compares with the stability of married heterosexual parents.

 

Also, by interviewing young adults of homosexual parents, we can see how the experience shaped their adult lives. This is vastly more useful information than asking volunteer same-sex parents if their kids are doing well.  Of course, they say yes.

 

More results: Three times as many young adults of lesbians were currently cohabiting as those with married parents (24 percent versus 9 percent). Even more young adults (31 percent) of divorced parents were living together. Twice as many from intact homes were employed full time as those with lesbian mothers.

 

Only 5 percent of those with married parents had considered suicide in the past year versus 12 percent of those with lesbian parents and 24 percent with homosexual fathers. That's five times those from intact homes. Similarly, a young adult of married parents is less than half as likely to be in therapy "for a problem connected with anxiety, depression, or relationships" – as those with homosexual parents (8 percent versus 19 percent).

 

Only 12 percent of young adults with married parents had ever cheated while married or cohabiting, but a big 40 percent of adult children of lesbians had done so.

 

Just 8 percent of those from intact homes had ever been forced to have sex against their will versus 31 percent with lesbian parents and 25 percent of "gay" parents.

 

These are huge differences.

 

They should be cited by those opposed to same-sex marriages.

 

In the last two weeks, I helped gather signatures for a statewide referendum on whether to reverse a vote by the Maryland Legislature legalizing same-sex marriage.

 

I hope this information will give fresh ammunition to those trying to protect traditional marriage – and children.

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[Leopardsocks]

This confirms what many people are realising...that much of what we believe as truth is propaganda driven by vested interests...if you lie long enough and hard enough, it will soon become truth.

[Romero]

Mark Regnerus Admits His 'Family Structures' Study Wasn't About Gay Parenting



Mark Regnerus's "family structure" study has been a hot topic since it was released in June, namely because every single anti-gay conservative organization has cited it as evidence that same-sex couples are inferior parents. An internal audit by the academic journal that originally published it found the conclusions to be "bullshit" because Regnerus's criteria was whether a kid's parent ever had a same-sex relationship, regardless of how long it lasted or what role in played in parenting. In a new interview with Focus on the Family — a group invested in continuing to cite the study to oppose LGBT equality — Regnerus admits that the foundation of his study is too weak to draw the conclusions that many have made:

REGNERUS: I got taken to task for leaning on young adults' assessments of their parents' relationships. I didn't ask them whether they thought their mom was a lesbian or if their dad was gay.



I take pains in the study to say this is not about saying gay or lesbian parents are inherently bad.



I'd be more careful about the language I used to describe people whose parents had same-sex relationships. I said "lesbian mothers" and "gay fathers," when in fact, I don't know about their sexual orientation.

So, Regnerus' study was not about parents who openly identify as gay or lesbian. It was not about same-sex couples in long-term relationships raising children together. Regnerus even admits "this is not about saying gay or lesbian parents are inherently bad," because he knows has no foundation on which to make such a claim.



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[Obvious Li]

duh....any 4 year old would have told you the same thing......gays are sick, gay marriage is an anathema and children placed in the care of a same sex couple face untold challenges including increased exposure to sexual abuse.....that is a fact...everyone knows it...few will say it...and the children suffer

[Frost]

It's sad that every child cannot have a perfect home, but a home with gay parents is better than no home at all in most cases.

Maybe some of this gay stuff would not be so prominent if people would be good parents, and take an interest in their kids. I think a lot of it is lids so confused by lack of parenting they don't have a clue what sex they really are.

And stop feeding them all the soy products, it's full of estrogen making them soft sissies.

[Anonymous]

It's sad that every child cannot have a perfect home, but a home with gay parents is better than no home at all in most cases.

Maybe some of this gay stuff would not be so prominent if people would be good parents, and take an interest in their kids. I think a lot of it is lids so confused by lack of parenting they don't have a clue what sex they really are.

And stop feeding them all the soy products, it's full of estrogen making them soft sissies.

 

[Frost]

It's true you know, soy milk even for the babies, isn't that something, or even a conspiracy .

It's in everything anymore, and unless you go someplace like Steak, and Shake you get soy milkshakes with no milk in them.

Fermented soy is alright, but not any other way unless in moderation.

Stupid Americans think Asians eat the stuff all day long, and it's cool   their giving men boobs .

[Anonymous]

It's true you know, soy milk even for the babies, isn't that something, or even a conspiracy .

It's in everything anymore, and unless you go someplace like Steak, and Shake you get soy milkshakes with no milk in them.

Fermented soy is alright, but not any other way unless in moderation.

Stupid Americans think Asians eat the stuff all day long, and it's cool   their giving men boobs .

 

[Frost]

Yeah sounds funny it does .

Well it's fact that soy does that stuff,, and you give a man estrogen their whole life what do you get ? Soft rounded men with boobs, and think of personality traits.

It sounds funny, but is serious that 80% of food products today has a soy product in it, or with meats raised on the stuff.

It's bad a steroids, and growth hormones have gotten .

We are being pretty much forced to eat the stuff being it's in so much of our food.

Unless you go totally Organic, and can afford the stuff, and the time researching you eat it.

you also have High Fructose corn syrup, MSGs, Cottonseed oil, Cornela, and Fluoride that is not good, and even poisonous to the human body people need to think about.

the high Fructose corn syrup I read today contributes to diabetes, and most the fake sugars do also.



Now you have gay people fat on fake food, with cancers, and diabetes, not so funny really.