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I read a couple interesting articles today on a new study from a Catholic University on the effects of same-sex parenting.
Another Study Finds Same-Sex Parents Aren't Best For Kids
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Study: Children Of Gay Parents More Depressed | The Daily Caller
Interesting eh? But what I could not figure out is why the articles said nothing of this part of the study...[/FONT]
Weird. Why would they not mention that minor detail?
Another Study Finds Same-Sex Parents Aren't Best For Kids
A study on the most comprehensive survey of U.S. adolescents ever finds children of same-sex parents report more sexual and physical abuse from their parents and other maladiesDoes a child need a mother and a father? A new study says they do, confirming what we already knew through human experience and common sense yet is being increasingly denied by people who insist on putting adult desires above the rights of children.
The study by sociology professor Paul Sullins found that “[a]t age 28, the adults raised by same-sex parents were at over twice the risk of depression as persons raised by man-woman parents.” In addition, there was an “elevated risk associated with imbalanced closeness and parental child abuse in family of origin; depression, suicidality, and anxiety at age 15; and stigma and obesity.”
And...
Study: Children Of Gay Parents More Depressed | The Daily Caller
[FONT="]A new study reveals that 51 percent of young-adult children of gay couples report ongoing bouts of depression, compared to just 20 percent for young adults raised by typical (male-female) parents.[/FONT][FONT="]The study, which was first pointed out in the Public Discourse by University of Texas at Austin sociology professor Mark Regnerus, was carried out by Catholic University sociology professor Paul Sullins, who examined data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health.[/FONT]
[FONT="]According to the study, 18.3 percent of adolescents being raised by typical parents reported depression, compared to 21.8 percent of adolescents raised by same-sex parents. By young-adulthood, though, the depression rate among children of typical parents dropped to 19.7 percent, while the depression rate of those raised by same-sex parents skyrocketed up to 51 percent.
Interesting eh? But what I could not figure out is why the articles said nothing of this part of the study...[/FONT]
[FONT="]Despite the signal strengths of Add Health as a large nationally representative longitudinal dataset and notwithstanding the strong significance for contrast effects reported above, the very small size of the sample of children raised by lesbians imposes important limits and prompts great caution regarding the conclusions of this study. As with all observational studies, causal inference is not possible. Moreover, many subtle distinctions and pathways of influence simply cannot be addressed with only 20 cases, and unobserved differences between the parent comparison groups may well confound some or all of the child differences observed. [/FONT]
Weird. Why would they not mention that minor detail?