Need some studies on the effect of homosexual upbringing

[Dawnia]

While I agree that kids from homosexual partnerships are probably affected negatively by it, I wonder though… if they grow up with problems, are those problems due to the parents themselves, or society’s REACTION to them?

In other words, are the kids messed up because they had 2 moms, or because society told them it was messed up to have 2 moms? Or because other children mocked and teased them? Or people held up signs saying “God hates fags” as the children walked past?

Is the child of a homosexual couple more messed up than the child of an alcoholic, or abusive parent? Or the child of divorce?

I just think studies on this subject would be dubious, because no two households are the same. There are so many factors which affect a child’s development, how can we single one out as the definitive “nail in the coffin”? How can you know for sure when a control group is impossible? There’s no way to screen out variables.

Personally, I struggle with the subject when I think of the otherwise “unadoptable” children who have been taken in, loved by and protected by gay couples. Especially children who are HIV+.

I don’t think it would be much different than studies about single parent households. It wasn’t too long ago that single parent families were treated with hostility. Even with more acceptance of single parent families, the children’s problems still exist.

Good social scientists look at the differences and take them into account when drawing their conclusions. And like everything else you would have to have a good number of studies to get an accurate picture.

I wasn’t quite sure where you were going with comparing homosexual parents in saying that children will be just as good as children of abusive parents. Why would you take children from abusive parents and give them to homosexual parents if they are just going to turn out the same way? Isn’t the purpose of putting them with a different family so that they turn out better? I’m assuming that I’m just confused and you really aren’t saying that.

 

[tlimon]

@James

Faith and reason, particularly psychological science in this case, works in tandem. There are things faith informs us of, things reason informs us of, and things that both faith and reason help us to understand. Science may tell us that boys who are raised with two lesbian parents enjoy playing baseball, rolling around in the dirt, grunting like a cave men, eating steak, and are generally heterosexuals who seem to smile a lot and are generally “well adjusted.”

Faith may tell us that, despite all of these abovementioned plus factors that might earn a “good enough” rating from a materialist, there is something missing in the development of virtue within that child because of their upbringing with lesbian parents.

The Church teaches that people are asked for profound reasons interrelated to the very nature of God that practicing homosexuality, no matter how tempting and seemingly insignificant as Wendy’s isolated little tryst with Tammy appears, should be abstained from. The failure to abstain in lesbian parenting amounts to a lack of temperance. Perhaps caving to the peer pressure to live lives that your pro gay parenting friends fervently approve of shattered your fortitude and you acted imprudently in applying that which you know is true (the Catholic faith) to your lives in practice. Thus, the lesbian couple works an injustice on their children who are unfairly educated that vices are virtues. These are detriments that cannot be calculated by science. However, faith informs our understanding in this regard. Thus, holistically, a purely scientific study will never give us the entire picture – it is insufficient.

You did hit on an interesting point that Catholics should not just dismiss science. I agree with you. I cringe when religious people dismiss that which science through our cerebral powers of reason informs us of. Catholicism has nothing to fear from science, truth does not fear truth.

On a more subtle note, you require of the Church things that I admit it cannot give you with the type certainty that you require in order to believe. Faith is a theological virtue. You demand that in order to believe, the Church must prove that the faith based belief is verifiable through a process of that, as I mentioned above, is outside the jurisdiction of faith. While you do not come right out and say it, the burden shifting heuristic at the beginning of your comment kind of presupposes it. I even hesitate to write about it because it flirts with being off topic.

Best regards,

Thomas

 

[Charlemagne_II]

James

**As found from research, gay sexuality is not pathological, and is a standard feature of humanity. There are many ways to protect children, but ‘shielding’ them from gay sexuality is not one of them. **

What do you mean by standard? That homosexuality is as standard as incest or pedophilia? Those practices are also found among humans, but there is no warrant to regard them as standard just because they can be found to exist.

As to protecting children from gay sexuality, what on earth are you talking about? You are entitled to your opinion, even if it is obnoxious and ridiculous to anyone with common sense.

 

[InSearchofGrace]

… There are many ways to protect children, but ‘shielding’ them from gay sexuality is not one of them.

Very revealing statement. Tell us how that is much different from what NAMBLA believes in, in helping along legalized pedophilia and pederasty.
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[GraceSofia]

please be so kind as to suggest some studies to refute whatever “scientific peer reviewed research” (what I tend to see as preachings about awareness of social progress and dangers of homophobia and the need to question traditional family model) is thrown at me?

This is not exactly what you want, I’m afraid, but you may find it of some interest.
Marriage from a Child’s Perspective: How Does Family Structure Affect Children, and What Can We Do about It?

"First, research clearly demonstrates that family structure matters for children, and the family structure that helps children the most is a family headed by two biological parents in a low-conflict marriage."

 

[GraceSofia]

Please see the link I posted above

The link connects to the home page of Orthodoxy Today.
If there is a specific article there that relates to the thread topic,
could you please try giving us the link again?

 

[GraceSofia]

chevalier,

Study Suggests Children Raised by LGBT Parents More Likely to Grow Up Gay or Bisexual

"Summarizing the findings of his investigation of the past LGB parenting research, Schumm reported that 20.3% of children with LGB parents were non-heterosexual in identity or behavior compared with 4.3% of children with heterosexual parents. This divergence increased to 28.0% when the age of the children was restricted to over 17 (when sexual orientation identity would presumably be more clearly defined). In keeping with the analyses of the popular literature, intergenerational transfer in the academic literature appeared to be stronger for daughters than for sons."