🚀 go-pugleaf

On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Lars P Ormberg wrote:

> Norman Gall wrote:
> > commodore-lars@geocities.com wrote:
> 
> > > Do I need to?  Studies show that without BOTH a mother and father
> > > figure, that child rearing suffers as a result.
> > 
> > "Studies"! Cite them.  I can trot out 10 that show that homosexual couples
> > rear just as well-adjusted and actually *more* successful children than
> > heterosexual couples.
> 
> Then you'd better tell the homosexual lobbies.  They tried desperately
> to find some, and were forced to publicly conclude none exist.

Actually, it was the other way 'round.  About the time that Bill 167 (the
failed same-sex spouse act) was being debated in the Ontario legislature,
two articles appeared in the Toronto Star.  The one in favour of the bill
cited numerous studies to support her case, the one against (by the
debarred psychiatrist Paul Cameron) cited not one.

Here are a few studies supporting the fact that children raised by
same-sex couples are just as well-adjusted as those raised by opposite-sex
couples:

Tasker, F. and S. Golombok (1995) Adults raised as children in lesbian
	families. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 65(2):203-215.

Patterson, C.J. (1992) Children of lesbian and gay parents. Child
	Development 63:1025-1042.

Golombok, S. and F. Tasker (in press) Children in lesbian and gay
	families: theories and evidence. Annual Review of Sex Research.

Huggins, S.L. (1989) A comparative study of self-esteem of adolescent
	children of divorced lesbian mothers and divorced heterosexual
	mothers. In F. Bozett (ed.) Homosexuality and the Family, pp.
	123-135.

Bozett, F. and M.B. Sussman (eds.) Homosexuality and Family Relations.
	New York: Harrington Park Press.

> Meanwhile, 300+ studies show the flaws of parenting not reared under a
> mother and father.

As someone else has pointed out, these studies refer to *single-parent*
families, not same-sex couples.  Please cite some studies showing that
children raised by same-sex couples are less well-adjusted than
opposite-sex couples. 

James