A woman, who I suspect is a MAGAt, wrote to chastise me about my support for individuals who want to enter into same-sex marriages and even worse, in her opinion, want to have children. "Stephan, you are so predictably liberal and you don't live in the real world. Surely you understand that same-sex parents raising a child are harming those children. That's why people like me who oppose same-sex marriages oppose such marriages. Why do you think Jesus condemned such relationships?"
Well, I understand that christofascists believe all kinds of nonsense about Jesus. That didn't surprise me. But she raised something about the children raised in same-sex marriages that I thought could be answered with real data so I went looking. Here's what I found.
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Researchers found most outcomes were similar between those of same-sex and heterosexual parents, and some sexual minority families had ‘even better outcomes in some domains’. Credit: Getty
The children of same-sex couples fare just as well, if not better, than those of heterosexual couples, research has shown.
While data on so-called “sexual minority families” is limited, the UK’s Office for National Statistics recorded 212,000 same-sex families in the UK in 2019, a 40% rise since 2015. The number of same-sex parents rose from 4,000 in 2010 to 12,000 in 2013.
A new study backs up previous research, concluding that a child’s development has little to do with their parents’ sexual orientation or gender identity.
“Contrary to many concerns, our review found most family outcomes were similar between these two family types, and sexual minority families have even better outcomes in some domains, such as child psychological adjustment and child-parent relationships,” the researchers wrote.
The findings chime with several other studies, including three decades of research from Australia that revealed children raised by same-sex parents do as well emotionally, socially and educationally as their […]
Yup, she was a MAGAt and probably a Fox viewer