Statistics on same sex parenting and their controversies

  • Thread starter Thread starter puzzledalex
  • Start date Start date
Status
Not open for further replies.
P

puzzledalex

Guest
Hi all,

Wish to be referred to any studies you may know on same sex parenting and their effect on children. Specifically is there any study that cannot be discredited that shows a definite difference between same sex parenting and natural parenting?
Regards,
Alex
 
Hi Alex, if you google the question you receive some conflicting results…
Here are a few. Obviously different views will be supported by opposing arguments, and experiences can differ according to the people involved.
Any risk to children’s spiritual and emotional welfare, and a balanced upbringing and good modeling from parents is of serious importance, therefore research is crucial as same-sex parenting in increasing.

I hope I’ve not misunderstood your intention in asking your question.

[http://whatweknow.law.columbia.edu/...ren-with-gay-or-lesbian-parents/#againsttopic]

(http://whatweknow.law.columbia.edu/...ren-with-gay-or-lesbian-parents/#againsttopic)

[Kids of gay parents fare worse, study finds, but research draws fire from experts - CBS News](Kids of gay parents fare worse, study finds, but research draws fire from experts - CBS News

[Same-sex parents | Child Family Community Australia]

https://cola.unh.edu/sites/cola.unh.edu/files/student-journals/ShelbyChamberlin.pdf

However this is a Catholic response

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/n...same-sex-parents-maybe-not-studies-say-92186/

www.ncronline.org

Children need heterosexual parents, Pope Francis says after gay pride march

www.ncronline.org www.ncronline.org
 
Last edited:
For me, the #1 concern is the fact that parents choose to deny their children one of their natural parents.

Every single gay couple I know with children choose to use sperm/egg donation. I know there are those who go the adoption/foster route but it’s not the norm. The children are then taught they have “two dads” or “two mums”. Reality is they don’t. They have a mum and a dad and a step parent. Only in many cases they’re denied either mum or dad. Not because life happens and sometimes things go wrong. Because one parent decided the other wasn’t necessary and the child didn’t need them.

Gay parenting hasn’t been around long enough to know if there are long term issues but consciously choosing to deny your child their other parent isn’t something any decent person does. The children will grow up know mum/dad decided they didn’t need their other parent.

(Disclaimer: Unless they’re escaping a situation where the child is been abused. Which isn’t relevant to the conversation).
 
CatholicSheila said:
The children will grow up know mum/dad decided they didn’t need their other parent.
Click to expand...
The children will also grow up knowing that someone loved them enough to stop them from being killed.

Many more gays and lesbians would go the adoption route - not the same thing as foster care - if the restrictions were cleared. The pro-life governor of Arizona, for example, recently freed up restrictions that make it easier for gays and lesbians to adopt children.
 
randomuser888 said:
Many more gays and lesbians would go the adoption route - not the same thing as foster care - if the restrictions were cleared.
Click to expand...
Not in Australia they won’t. In 2013 Queensland (my state) had 32 adoptions. There isn’t a shortage of parents. Quite the opposite. There are a lot more people wanting to adopt than there are children. Incidentally, gay couples can adopt children they are not related to here. We just don’t really have many to adopt.

People aren’t having abortions because no one would adopt their kids. I have not once heard that as a reason someone has an abortion. Rather they have abortions because they don’t want to put the child up for adoption.
 
Last edited:
Thanks Trishie,

The body of journals listed at Columbia law school’s website basically imply no difference in parenting outcomes between same sex and heterosexual parenting.

If this is so, where is the evidence for implying s.s. parenting is controversial or damaging?

Cheers,

Alex
 
puzzledalex said:
The body of journals listed at Columbia law school’s website basically imply no difference in parenting outcomes between same sex and heterosexual parenting.
Click to expand...
This kind of social research must be very difficult to execute and obtain objective outcomes. Do all the studies agree on how to measure parenting outcomes? Can they be measured comprehensively? I don’t know the answers, but it is difficult to get past the idea that mother and father is - other things being equal - the preferred family structure. To conceive a child intending not to provide that seems at least questionable.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top