http://slate.msn.com/id/2097048/
You wouldn't guess from the current "expert" position on homosexual
child-rearing that the data are in any doubt. Two years ago, the American
Academy of Pediatrics put its imprimatur on the stance adopted by the
American Psychiatric Association in 2000. An article in Pediatrics
pronounced that "a growing body of scientific literature demonstrates that
children who grow up with 1 or 2 gay and/or lesbian parents fare as well in
emotional, cognitive, social, and sexual functioning as do children whose
parents are heterosexual."
But behind the scenes, skeptics have emerged�and from an unexpected
quarter. It's hardly startling to find conservative family-values crusaders
and opponents of gay marriage balking at the verdict and challenging the
validity of several decades' worth of data. As one of the most sober of
them, Steven Nock of the University of Virginia, wrote in an affidavit in
last year's Ontario Superior Court gay marriage case, "not a single one of
those studies was conducted according to generally accepted standards of
scientific research." What's jarring is to hear champions of family
diversity and gay marriage chiming in. Who would have predicted this camp
would come up with the most incisive critique of the claim that research
has proved there are no differences between kids raised by gay and straight
parents?
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"The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world,
it is God's gift to humanity." - George W. Bush 1/29/03
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