Quote: Originally Posted by coldstream
An exhaustive academic study by U of Texas sociologist Mark Regnerus recently prompted a vitriolic campaign against him at the University, when in strictly contolled and objective studies he found there were measurable and definable negative impacts on children raised in same sex, homosexual households.
To its credit the campaign to expel Regnerus failed at the University.. no doubt to the great frustration of pseudo psycho 'scientists' that have attached themselves to the homosexual cause.. .. who want to prevent any publishing or academic credibility attached to anything counter to the politically correct mantra of the indistinguishability of traditional and homosexual families.
Essentially it seems that homosexual households really are tantamount to child abuse
Case Closed at UT Austin: Regnerus Exonerated
So the UofT agrees with him? That's irrelevant to the guy's accuracy. Entire universities used to think the Earth was the center of the universe at one time.
uhuh Didja read the conclusion of the study?
Quote: As scholars of same-sex parenting aptly note, same-sex couples have and will continue to raise children. American courts are finding arguments against gay marriage decreasingly persuasive (Rosenfeld, 2007). This study is intended to neither undermine nor affirm any legal rights concerning such. The tenor of the last 10 years of academic discourse about gay and lesbian parents suggests that there is little to nothing about them that might be negatively associated with child development, and a variety of things that might be uniquely positive. The results of analyzing a rare large probability sample reported herein, however, document numerous, consistent differences among young adults who reported maternal lesbian behavior (and to a lesser extent, paternal gay behavior) prior to age 18. While previous studies suggest that children in planned GLB families seem to fare comparatively well, their actual representativeness among all GLB families in the US may be more modest than research based on convenience samples has presumed.
Although the findings reported herein may be explicable in part by a variety of forces uniquely problematic for child development in lesbian and gay families—including a lack of social support for parents, stress exposure resulting from persistent stigma, and modest or absent legal security for...
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Basically it's just restating that kids of heterosexual families may do better as "wholesome" individuals than the kids of homosexual families, which also applies to kids of separated familes, single-parent families, and other types of families in society.
Anecdotally, my wife (bisexual) is extremely principled, is pretty "well-adjusted" (quirky as she may be), successful, etc. and I lost my father at a very young age, both of us are irrreligious, and yet we raised two kids that fit quite well into society.
On the other hand, here you are ignoring evidence, injecting your religiosity into a great many of your posts, etc. I'd hardly call you an objective person.
Quote: Originally Posted by coldstreamThere is a genius to both the male and female contributions to child rearing.. that can't be faked. A childhood deficient in one or the other and within a family gounded on the love of those parent for each other and the child.. will be impoverished in comparison.
BS. You mean "
MAY be impoverished in comparison".
Quote: It's obvious for all who want to see.. of the catastrophic social outcomes for individuals and communities in the absence of (real) fathers.. or mothers.
Catastrophic?
No exaggeration there, right?
F'k, I sure am glad my kids were raised apart from hateful, phobic, irrational people like you,
Quote: Originally Posted by coldstreamThe study was intended to determine whether children are in fact affected negatively by unconventional homosexual lifestyles by parents. It indicates that they are.
Wrong. It indicates they
MAY or have an increased tendency to be.
Obviously, your bigotry has clouded your comprehension abilities.
Quote: Certainly you will find many cases where children of single parents have flourished... or where highly dysfunctional families... those plagued with alcoholism and the like.. in fact are very injurious to the children regardless of the presence of two heterosexual parents. But that doesn't undercut the point that there are ideals that affect both community and individuals.. and that should be promoted by society in general.. rather than utterly rejected in service of some gratuitous concept of equality.
lmao So you want all kids to be your version of "normal". Good luck on that flight into the surreal.
