Gay dads that have kids that hate thewm

The study, from Mark Regnerus, an associate professor of sociology at The University of Texas at Austin, surveyed more than 15, Americans between the ages of 18 and 39, asking them questions about their upbringings. It never really hit me that my family was different from most others until the third grade, when the bullying started.

Regnerus was upfront about the funding from conservative groups, and said he pledged to groups involved that he would report whatever the data found, regardless of which way it leaned. Regnerus defended his study to HealthPop, saying he set out to do a population-based study, which is considered the "gold standard" in his field.

CBS News A new study that finds children of a gay or lesbian parent may be more likely to have social and emotional problems has sparked controversy on both sides of the same-sex marriage debate. What's more, he says some of the criticisms are valid and plausible.

He said children of heterosexual couples in an unstable home were also found to fare worse than those in a stable environment. But that finding isn't meaningless. Gary Gates, a researcher at the Williams Institute, a sexual orientation policy think tank at the University of California, Los Angeles, told LiveScience that a more fair comparison would've been of children of heterosexual or same-sex couples who were raised in similar homes, with no divorces, separations or foster care.

Or it is quite possible that the effect derives entirely from the stigma attached to such relationships and to the legal prohibitions that prevent same-sex couples from entering and maintaining 'normal relationships'. Overall, less than 2 percent of all respondents who said their mother had a same-sex relationship reported living with their mom and her partner for all 18 years of their childhood.

Other critics have alluded to the study's funding from conservative groups the Witherspoon Institute and the Bradley Foundation, suggesting Regnerus had a right-wing agenda. Regnerus said it's entirely possible that instability in the household led to some of the reported negative outcomes in adult children of same-sex parents.

Please don’t interpret this as “gay people should never be parents” – I only wish to shed a light on familial issues unique to gay families, that can be avoided with with responsible parenting. Focusing on the larger sample, the study found respondents whose mother had a same-sex relationship fared worse on 24 of the 40 tested outcomes, compared with children of an intact heterosexual couple.

Fourteen percent of kids of a lesbian mom spent time in foster care at some point, compared with 2 percent of the rest of the children studied. If anything, even though I’m straight, having gay parents made me more comfortable with people in the LGBTQ+ scene.

I don’t want this post to be a conservative talking point, or an argument for why gay people shouldn’t have kids. (Originally published on Reddit) Right away, I want to make something clear: I’m not a homophobe. Sixty-nine percent of children of lesbian mothers reported that their family received public assistance, such as welfare at some point, compared with 17 percent from intact biological families.

Other study's samples, he said, interviewed "convenient samples" of people researchers knew, friends, or groups that are linked together somehow, but he wanted a totally random sampling. In a commentary in SlateWilliam Saletan writes, "What the study shows, then, is that kids from broken homes headed by gay people develop the same problems as kids from broken homes headed by straight people.

About half of children of an intact biological family said they were employed full-time, compared with 26 percent of those born to a lesbian mother. Its findings are published in the July issue of Social Science Research. If they don't like the results, I'm sorry.

But those earlier studies have inadvertently masked real diversity among gay and lesbian parenting experiences in America. With children of dads in a same-sex relationship, there were 19 outcomes they performed worse on, Regnerus told HealthPop, so they didn't have as many negative outcomes as kids born to a mom.

Several experts and advocacy groups have taken issue with the study's methodology, saying a comparison of children of a lesbian mother -- who herself may have divorced the child's biological father, or may not even identify as a lesbian since the survey only asked if a parent had ever been in a same-sex couple during their childhood -- is an unfair, flawed comparison.

Have any of the

Outcomes included whether a child had grown up to need public assistance like welfare, were more likely to have anxiety or depression, were more likely to be abused, or were more apt engage in unhealthier habits such as having more sexual partners, smoking or using drugs.

Regnerus' analysis identified now-adult children who said they were raised by a lesbian mother, along with 73 who said their father was in a same-sex relationship. With children of dads in a same-sex relationship, there were 19 outcomes they performed worse on, Regnerus told HealthPop, so they didn't have as many negative outcomes as kids born to a mom without the mother, but more than those who grew up in a home with married heterosexual parents, he said.

One survey question asked whether a parent had been in a same-sex relationship during a child's upbringing; Regnerus wanted to see whether there were differences between kids raised in a household by a parent in a same-sex relationship compared with those who were raised by biological parents who were married and heterosexual.

The survey results were measured by a set of 40 outcomes on social, emotional and relationship factors. My sister is gay, many of my friends are gay. Parents of gay children may be shocked when their kids come out of the closet, but once the dust settles, most parents realize that their child is the same one they have loved and cared for all their lives, they just happen to be gay.

Word spread. Parents who are homophobic and consequently are emotionally or physically abusive towards their gay child frequently have a devastating psychological effect on him/her.