Study says lesbians make better parents
Study says lesbians make better parents
By
365gay Newswire
11.24.2009 8:51am EST
Lesbians make better parents than a man and a woman, according to Stephen Scott, Director of Research, at the National Academy for Parenting Practitioners.
In a meeting hosted by the think tank Demos, Scott said that the latest research showed that children of such couples did better in life, reported UK Daily Express.
Unsurprisingly, there has been a backlash from the conservative right, with critics saying that children need fathers and that children do best when raised by their married biological parents.
The Fathers4Justice campaign attacked the study for failing to promote the role of fathers. A spokeswoman told the Daily Express: “This Government has introduced a new gender apartheid where fathers are marginalized and excluded from their children’s lives whereas other types of parent are celebrated and promoted. ‘Father’ has become the new ‘F’ word.”
The study, done by researchers at Birkbeck College in London and Clark University in Massachusetts. says that children that are brought up by female couples are less likely to be confined by traditional gender roles and would even aspire to more male professions, said the
Daily Mail
The Christian Institute noted that researchers claim that same-sex couples made good parents because they could never accidentally conceive, but instead they have to actively choose to adopt or find a sperm donor. This does not take into account the many gay and lesbian couples who have children while in straight marriages.
Mary Cheney, the lesbian daughter of former Republican vice-president Dick Cheney, is expecting her second child.
The Times reported her optimism in a recent interview:
“Every piece of remotely responsible research that has been done in the last 20 years has shown there is no difference between children raised by same-sex parents and children raised by opposite-sex parents. What matters is being raised in a stable, loving environment.”
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Here’s a link to the PDF document outlining the study, and providing a list of up-to-date references at the back:
http://www.parentingacademy.org/UploadedFiles/Evaluating__evidence_lesbian_parents.pdf
By
365gay Newswire
11.24.2009 8:51am EST
Lesbians make better parents than a man and a woman, according to Stephen Scott, Director of Research, at the National Academy for Parenting Practitioners.
In a meeting hosted by the think tank Demos, Scott said that the latest research showed that children of such couples did better in life, reported UK Daily Express.
Unsurprisingly, there has been a backlash from the conservative right, with critics saying that children need fathers and that children do best when raised by their married biological parents.
The Fathers4Justice campaign attacked the study for failing to promote the role of fathers. A spokeswoman told the Daily Express: “This Government has introduced a new gender apartheid where fathers are marginalized and excluded from their children’s lives whereas other types of parent are celebrated and promoted. ‘Father’ has become the new ‘F’ word.”
The study, done by researchers at Birkbeck College in London and Clark University in Massachusetts. says that children that are brought up by female couples are less likely to be confined by traditional gender roles and would even aspire to more male professions, said the
Daily Mail
The Christian Institute noted that researchers claim that same-sex couples made good parents because they could never accidentally conceive, but instead they have to actively choose to adopt or find a sperm donor. This does not take into account the many gay and lesbian couples who have children while in straight marriages.
Mary Cheney, the lesbian daughter of former Republican vice-president Dick Cheney, is expecting her second child.
The Times reported her optimism in a recent interview:
“Every piece of remotely responsible research that has been done in the last 20 years has shown there is no difference between children raised by same-sex parents and children raised by opposite-sex parents. What matters is being raised in a stable, loving environment.”
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Here’s a link to the PDF document outlining the study, and providing a list of up-to-date references at the back:
http://www.parentingacademy.org/UploadedFiles/Evaluating__evidence_lesbian_parents.pdf