Lesbians do it better

[BruceChris]

Children from lesbian families rated higher in social, academic and total competence. They also showed lower rates in social, rule-breaking, aggressive problem behavior.

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/0...ent/index.html

And Concerned Women For America are having a fit.

BruceChris

[Rick336]

Originally Posted by BruceChris

Children from lesbian families rated higher in social, academic and total competence. They also showed lower rates in social, rule-breaking, aggressive problem behavior.

BruceChris

Hurray!!! for lesbian family values

Originally Posted by BruceChris

And Concerned Women For America are having a fit.

BruceChris

LMAO!!!

Rick

[Gennee]

I read the article the other day. Quite interesting. Refutes a lot of the stuff that say that lesbians aren't good parents.

Gennee

[tymejumper]

That is a good article to have, of course the concerned women are having a fit, they are stupid.

[stav]

let's hope the ultra conservative right wing gets a chance to have a look at that.

It's great news. Squaring that finding off against what we know about prejudice and social exclusion literature (e.g. detrimental to mental health and self-esteem) would also be another really good 'next part' of the research puzzle to have a look at.

I have encountered resistance to same-sex parenting in many ways, including 'but it's selfish for what it exposes kids to at school'. Never mind about the failure to scrutinise prejudicial views from the school-context, in that 'blame the homosexual' abuse myth!!

Thus, it's just great that some evidence-based literature has come out like that. I wonder what the male-male equivalent research says.

cheers
stav

[BruceChris]

The article briefly mentions the subject of male-male families. Note: This was a 25 year study, and 25 years ago there almost wern't any male-male families. And no research, that I know of.

The lesbians were a far more homogeneous group. They were in a position to decide when, where, and with whom to have children, and to have their children when they were older, and reasonably financially secure.

A few years ago, the daughter of one of our church members spent a summer in Guatemala, and met Pablo, a gay teenager there. Somehow, arrangements were made to bring him here, and D. and S. (guys, and church members) adopted him. The last that I saw, he was in junior college, in town here.

Peace and Love, BruceChris

[offog]

Awesome article. This study was mentioned on The Colbert Report the other day. (Colbert, BTW, is great at making fun of homophobes.)

One of the arguments against lesbian couples having kids is that the kids will be stigmatized. I bet the same argument was made thirty years ago about single women who kept their babies. Eventually, the stigma lessens.

I'm old enough to remember when it was controversal for mothers to work in jobs outside of the home. The perception was that kids of "working mothers" would be "problem children". Oh, yeah - and children of separated/divorced parents were all "problem children" too.

Concerned Women For America say the study defies common sense. I guess that kind of figures. Christian conservatives tend to see their ideology as common sense, conventional wisdom, mainstream, etc.

I've read a lot of stuff about how men and women tick differently. For example, women are supposed to operate more co-operatively while men tend to be more competitive and confrontational. That may be one reason kids with lesbian parents do better.

I'd be interested in finding how kids with gay male parents do. My experience with gay men is that a lot of them don't carry around the macho baggage that many straight men do.

BTW, last summer I was talking to a lesbian over beer at the gay club and she told us about how she lost custody of her kids when she and her husband divorced. She told her lawyer up front that she was a lesbian. She found out later that the guy was an evangelical Christian who didn't bother to declare his "conflict of interest" to her, and he basically sold her out. She complained to the Law Society, but didn't get anywhere.

[BruceChris]

That commandment about not bearing False Witness never did get around to addressing the trouble one could cause, by failing to bear True Witness. Now days some people do recognize that there is value in offering Full Disclosure, and occasional legal liability in failing to do so.

BC