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Early Studies On Same-Sex Parenting Found No Differences Between Same-Sex and Heterosexual Parenting of Children Because They Were Methodologically Flawed
First, the participants were aware that the purpose was to investigate same-sex parenting and may have biased their responses in order to produce the desired result.
Second, participants were recruited through networks of friends or through advocacy organizations, resulting in a sample of same-sex parents of higher socioeconomic status than is typical of parents in a same-sex relationship generally.
Third, on average, samples of fewer than 40 children of parents in a same-sex relationship virtually guaranteed findings of no statistically significant differences between groups.
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“While some [early] researchers have tended to conclude that there are no differences whatsoever in terms of child outcomes as a function of parental sexual orientation, such conclusions appear premature in the light of more recent data in which some different outcomes have been observed in a few studies.”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27620690
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“[T]he entire research thesis of ‘no differences‘ [between the results of parenting between hetero- and homosexual parents], trumpeted as an unassailable consensus by some of our society’s most respected arbiters of scientific credibility, is nothing more than a tissue of fabrications and contradictions under color of science.”
https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2019/05/51436/
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“Unfortunately, Christians have often been reticent to speak up for children in the same fearless, forthright way they advocated for unborn life… [because] Christians have adopted false [i.e. unbiblical] notions of marriage or given in to pervasive social pressure to avoid speaking out. Many clergy have [likewise] reduced their time in the pulpit or lack the conviction, or courage, to address the issue… [But d]efending [biblical, heterosexual, monogamous m]arriage is ‘social justice for children’… [because] multiple studies [cited in the article] show children flourish best when raised in an intact home by two married parents of different sexes… This is 100% an issue of children’s rights.“
https://washingtonstand.com/news/defending-marriage-is-social-justice-for-children
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Lies, Damned Lies, and Ideologically Driven Same-Sex Parenting Statistics
“NHIS data have been [repeatedly misused and ab]used to analyze same-sex households and child health… [Some] authors inquired only into a solitary, parent-reported measure of their ‘perception of the child’s overall health,’ a physical well-being proxy that varies only modestly across household types. Hence, [those ideologically driven] authors readily concluded ‘no differences’ [between same-sex and heterosexual parenting].”
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“Emotional problems [are] over twice as prevalent… for children with same-sex parents than for children with opposite-sex parents. Risk [is] elevated in the presence of parent psychological distress…, moderated by family instability… and unaffected by stigmatization…, though these all had significant direct effects on emotional problems… Joint biological parents are associated with the lowest rate of child emotional problems by a factor of 4 relative to same-sex parents, accounting for the bulk of the overall same-sex/opposite-sex difference.”
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2500537
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“[A]dolescents with same-sex parents experience significantly lower autonomy and higher anxiety, but also better school performance, than do adolescents with opposite-sex parents… The longer a child has been with same-sex parents, the greater the harm.”
http://www.journalrepository.org/media/journals/BJESBS_21/2015/Aug/Sullins1122015BJESBS19337.pdf
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“Relationship instability appears to be higher among [homosexual] and lesbian parent couples and may be a key mediating factor influencing outcomes for children… ”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27620690
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“Seventy percent of children living with both biological [i.e. heterosexual] parents had experienced none of the adverse experiences assessed in [this] survey, compared with about 20% of children living with one biological parent or no parents.”
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhsr/nhsr074.pdf
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“[R]search 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. Children in single-parent families, children born to unmarried mothers, and children in stepfamilies or cohabiting [including homosexual] relationships face higher risks of poor outcomes than do children in intact families headed by two biological parents.”
https://thembeforeus.com/biology-matters/
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“Much empirical work in monogamous societies indicates that higher degrees of relatedness among household members are associated with lower rates of abuse, neglect and homicide. Living in the same household with genetically unrelated adults [i.e. non-biological, heterosexual parents] is the single biggest risk factor for abuse, neglect and homicide of children.”
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rstb.2011.0290
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“[M]ost scholars now agree that children raised by two biological [i.e. heterosexual] parents in a stable marriage do better than children in other family forms across a wide range of outcomes…”
https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1079423
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“The [lesbian] couple… have been criticised [sic] for denying their child a father.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1340012/Lesbian-couples-single-women-rush-IVF.html
[Only by right wingnuts who couldn’t care less about actual scientific data .]
[BTW, speaking of overrated fathers…]
Study: Spending time with Dad good for teen self-esteem
http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/24/living/dads-and-self-esteem/index.html
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“Fatherlessness [including lesbian-parented households] is a major force behind many disturbing U.S. social problems… The absence of fathers from children’s lives is one of the most important causes of problems related to children’s well-being such as increasing rates of juvenile violent crime, depression and eating disorders, teen suicide, and substance abuse. The economic difficulties experienced by mother-headed families ultimately account for many of the disadvantages found among fatherless children… The largest negative consequence of father absence is juvenile delinquency and violence, and early sexual activity.”
http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED416035.pdf
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“Fathers’ involvement in their children’s lives has been shown to have a positive effect on children and their well-being in many areas — for example, on increasing the chances of academic success and in reducing the chances of delinquency and substance abuse.”
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhsr/nhsr071.pdf
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“After controlling for covariates, there was stronger and more consistent evidence of [negative] effects of father absence on early sexual activity and teenage pregnancy than on other behavioral or mental health problems or academic achievement.”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2764264/pdf/nihms146867.pdf
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“Children living in female-headed families with no [male] spouse present [have] a poverty rate of 47.6 percent, over four times the rate of children in married-couple families (10.9 percent).”
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Homosexual parents simply do not parent children as well as married heterosexual couples
http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2015/02/14465/
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The Data on Children in Same-Sex Households Get More Depressing
http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2016/06/17255/
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New research shows increased risks of same-sex parenting
https://world.wng.org/content/suffer_not_the_children
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“A massive study by Douglas W. Allen of Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada (High School Graduation rates Among Children of Same-Sex Households), found that ‘daughters raised by [homosexual] men are only 15% as likely to graduate’ high school, compared to children raised in a home by their mother and father.”
http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/02/engineering_children_for_gay_granddads.html
[Doug Mainwaring, btw, is an open, practicing homosexual.]
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“Children living with [homosexual] and lesbian families in 2006 were about 65 % as likely to graduate compared to children living in opposite sex marriage families. Daughters of same-sex parents do considerably worse than sons.“
— Douglas W. Allen, “High school graduation rates among children of same-sex households,” Review of Economics of the Household, December 2013, Volume 11, Issue 4, pp 635-658
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11150-013-9220-y#page-1
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[More] New Research on Same-Sex Households Reveals Kids Do Best With Mom and Dad
http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2015/02/14417/
[Much more similar research shared below.]
[ASND thanks Wintery Knight for that image.]
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“… children in nonparental [i.e. non-biological parent] care may be vulnerable to poorer health and well-being outcomes that are often associated with having had adverse experiences.”
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This Is Child Abuse, Progressive Style
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2014/02/17/this-is-child-abuse-progressive-style/?print=1
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A Same-Sex Domestic Violence Epidemic Is Silent
[Only in the mainstream, left wing media — with the single exception of that one and only article, published in the openly pro-homosexual Atlantic.]
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What Honest Homosexuals Are Willing To Admit:
“I’m [homosexual] and I oppose the notion of same sex marriage and the engineering of children for same sex couples.”
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2014/02/manufacturing_consent_on_same_sex_marriage.html
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Homosexual Walter Lee Hampton on Man-Boy Sex (‘[Homosexual]’ Pederasty): “I Would Not Let My Teenage Sons Around [Homosexual] Men!”
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Kids Need a Mom and Dad, Says Openly [Homosexual] Adoptive Parent
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The sad side of [homosexual] parenting
A Canadian woman was raised in a [homosexual] household. Now she tells her story.
http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/the_sad_side_of_gay_parenting/
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Woman Raised by Lesbians: I Craved That ‘Male Stability, That Father in My Life‘
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Growing Up With Two Moms: The Untold Children’s View
“The children of same-sex couples have a tough road ahead of them—I know, because I have been there.”
http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2012/08/6065
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Fathers Matter When It Comes to Their Teenager’s Sexual Behavior
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121016085136.htm
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A Father’s Love Is One of the Greatest Influences On Personality Development
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120612101338.htm
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The Regnerus Study (2012):
“… children appear most apt to succeed well as adults — on multiple counts and across a variety of domains — when they spend their entire childhood with their married mother and father…“
— Mark Regnerus, “How different are the adult children of parents who have same-sex relationships? Findings from the New Family Structures Study,” Social Science Research, vol. 41 (2012), 752-770
www.ionainstitute.eu/pdfs/1-s2.0-S0049089X12000610-main.pdf
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Regnerus Study On Homosexual Parents Tops All Previous Research
http://www.frc.org/issuebrief/new-study-on-homosexual-parents-tops-all-previous-research
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“... as social scientists, we think much of the public criticism Regnerus [cited just above] has received is unwarranted for three reasons.”
http://www.baylorisr.org/2012/06/a-social-scientific-response-to-the-regnerus-controversy/
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An Obscenity and a Headline Can’t Discredit Study of Homosexual Parents
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The Campaign to Discredit Regnerus and the Assault on Peer Review
http://www.nas.org/articles/the_campaign_to_discredit_regnerus_and_the_assault_on_peer_review
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Prof. [Regnerus] Cleared of Misconduct in [Homosexual] Parenting Study
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2012/August/Prof-Cleared-of-Misconduct-in-Gay-Parenting-Study/
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How different are the adult children of parents who have same-sex relationships?
http://winteryknight.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/screen-shot-2012-06-11-at-12-28-27-am.png
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“… intergenerational transfer of sexual orientation can occur at statistically significant and substantial rates…”
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20642872
[Translation: children of homosexual parents are more likely to become homosexual than heterosexual.]
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The Forgotten Victims of “[Homsexual] Marriage”
What about all the children of America?
http://www.missionamerica.com/articletext.php?artnum=301
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Lesbian parents ‘betrayed’ by [homosexual] father demanding to see his son
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“It will take at least a generation, a full thirty years or more, before the full effects of redefining marriage work themselves out throughout the social system. When we come to our senses 30 years from now and realize that we have perpetrated a grotesque injustice, not a single child born fatherless or motherless within a same sex marriage will get his missing parent back. Only prevention will protect children’s rights.“
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Who’s the real kidnapper?
http://www.wnd.com/2012/08/whos-the-real-kidnapper/print/
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[Biblical] Marriage: Still the Safest Place For Women and Children
s3.amazonaws.com/thf_media/2004/pdf/bg1732.pdf
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A Married Mom and Dad Really Do Matter: New Evidence from Canada
http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2013/10/10996/
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As It Turns Out, It Does Make a Difference
http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/10/m-as_it_turns_out_it_does_make_a_difference.html
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The well-being of children with [homosexual] parents
“... the APA’s conclusions about scientific research are invalid and misleading.“
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0049089X12000749
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Same-sex parenting and children’s outcomes:
A closer examination of the American psychological association’s brief on lesbian and [homosexual] parenting
“… assertions… made by the APA were not empirically warranted.“
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0049089X12000580
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How different are the adult children of parents who have same-sex relationships?
Findings from the New Family Structures Study
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0049089X12000610
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Exposing the Schlock Social Science on [Homosexual] Parenting
http://www.nationalreview.com/blogs/print/302462
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“Compared with traditional married households, we find that children being raised by same-sex couples are 35 % less likely to make normal progress through school…“
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“[Dr. Trayce Hansen (psychologist)] conducted a review of all the studies [he] could locate… [conducted by] pro-homosexual researchers only… which assessed sexual preference in homosexually parented children.“
http://www.drtraycehansen.com/Pages/writings_sexpref.html
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Study: Children fare better in traditional mom-dad families
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jun/10/study-children-fare-better-traditional-mom-dad-fam/
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New Studies Challenge Established Views About Development of Children Raised by [Homosexual] or Lesbian Parents
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120610151302.htm
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Homosexual Parenting: Placing Children at Risk
http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=is01j3
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The Kids Aren’t All Right: New Family Structures and the “No Differences” Claim
http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2012/06/5640
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“This is the evidence ignored by, for example, judges who place children in [homosexual]-headed households. It is also the evidence ignored by everyone who argues that homosexuality has nothing to do with sex scandals involving young boys. It is also the evidence that will not go away. The empirical reality of much of [homosexual] life contradicts the rhetoric of virtual normality…“
http://www.firstthings.com/article/2007/01/the-family-discovering-the-obvious-37
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“… 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.“
http://www.childtrends.org/files/MarriageRB602.pdf
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“Children in nuclear families [defined in this U.S. Government report as biological mother-father] were generally less likely than children in nonnuclear families…”
• to be in good, fair, or poor health
• to have a basic action disability;
• to have learning disabilities or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder;
• to lack health insurance coverage;
• to have had two or more emergency room visits in the past 12 months;
• to have receipt of needed prescription medication delayed during the past 12 months due to lack of affordability;
• to have gone without needed dental care due to cost in the past 12 months;
• to be poorly behaved;
• and to have definite or severe emotional or behavioral difficulties during the past 6 months.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/series/sr_10/sr10_246.pdf
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“… [homosexual] male relationships are 50 percent more likely to break up than heterosexual marriages, while lesbian relationships are 167 percent more likely to break up than heterosexual marriages.“
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“… [homosexual] parenting approximately triples or quadruples the rate of same-sex attraction. It may be technically true that ‘the vast majority of these children eventually grow up to be heterosexual,’ but only because if being raised by same-sex parents increases the occurrence of same-sex attraction from 2 percent to 8 percent, 92 percent are still heterosexual. But a fourfold increase is still a sizable effect statistically.“
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“Declarations that homosexuality is ‘normal,’ ‘positive,’ and ‘legitimate’ would seem be the product of value judgments rather than objective science… how does science establish that such a grounding of human identity is ‘positive’… how did science become the arbiter of what is positive?“
[Or “legitimate?” Both of those terms are values-driven, not science-driven. The APA even stated as much…]
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“In a moment of exceptional clarity, the task force put its finger on a core issue: [Homosexual]-affirming psychologies necessarily embody extrascientific moral and ethical deliberations that raise the potential of conflict with religious beliefs, precisely because the very act of giving priority to organismic congruence is a religious and ethical choice.”
http://www.firstthings.com/article/2012/01/same-sex-science
[Regarding that last quote, religious and ethical choices are moral choices, not scientific observations. The APA even acknowledges that fact.]
[Anyone interested in a recent — and interesting — article about the founder of this country’s largest ministry to ex-homosexuals can read it here .]
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Study: Sons from traditional families do better at school
http://www.christian.org.uk/news/study-sons-from-traditional-families-do-better-at-school/
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“According to decades of research, the ideal family structure for children is a two-parent, mother-father family. That research consistently shows that children raised in such families are more likely to thrive — psychologically, mentally, and physically — than children reared in any other kind of family configuration.”
http://www.drtraycehansen.com/Pages/writings_notinthebest.html
[Yes, the article included all the requisite peer-reviewed scientific journal references.]
Yet, despite the abundance of scientific evidence cited above (and below)…
“… as people learn that friends and relatives are [homosexual], they become more sympathetic to [special homosexual] rights.“
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/275145
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Growing up without a father transforms children’s brains: Study
http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/growing-up-without-a-father-transforms-childrens-brains-study
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Suffer the Children
http://www.equip.org/articles/suffer-the-children/
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[Homosexual] Parenting
http://www.equip.org/articles/gay-parenting/
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Comparing the Lifestyles of Homosexual Couples to Married Couples
http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=IS04C02&v=PRINT
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Time with dad is time well spent
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16219-time-with-dad-is-time-well-spent.html
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Girls Need a Dad and Boys Need a Mom
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/01/girls_need_a_dad_and_boys_need.html
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Cause of Death: No Father
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/03/cause_of_death_no_father.html
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EVIDENCE FROM THE SOCIAL SCIENCES ON FAMILY STRUCTURE AND THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE CHILD
http://www.marriagedebate.com/pdf/Do_Moms_Dads_Matter.pdf
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“… children from fatherless homes are more likely to be poor, become involved in drug and alcohol abuse, drop out of school, and suffer from health and emotional problems. Boys are more likely to become involved in crime, and girls are more likely to become pregnant as teens.“
http://www.fathers.com/content/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=391
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Setting the Record Straight on ‘[Homosexual] Conversion’ Therapy for Minors
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“The women, who are domestic partners, do not appear to have criminal records in Monterey County.”
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“… a study at the University of Iowa two years ago concluded that ‘being attached to dad is just as helpful as being close to mom.’ That is critical during the first two years of life.”
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/love-means/story?id=23208782&singlePage=true
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Homosexual Marriage Is Fueling Research On Lab-Grown GMO Babies
http://thefederalist.com/2017/02/02/gay-marriage-fueling-research-lab-grown-gmo-babies/
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Don’t Ignore The Child’s Perspective On [Homosexual] Couples Commissioning Babies
http://thefederalist.com/2017/01/30/the-childs-side-of-the-story-when-gay-couples-commission-babies/
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