Daddy, Papa and Me (we) ? Study shows _opposite_ of what anti ...

In it?s never-ending attempt to prove something true that isn?t, the anti-gay right is now touting one of the most obviously flawed studies I?ve seen in a long time, and that?s saying something. The study came out recently from Mark Regnerus and funded almost solely from anti-gay groups including the so-called ?National Organization for Marriage.?

Funding sources aside (they might or might not influence outcome), the data is just bad. No, it?s not bad, it?s totally irrelevant.

The study looked at children who have a gay or lesbian parent, almost exclusively from a gay or lesbian parent who had the child in a heterosexual relationship and then divorced.

In other words, almost all the children of ?gay parents? (ONE gay parent, not 2) were from divorced homes and ?broken? families.

Then they compared the outcomes of those children to those of intact ?heterosexual? families. See a problem with that? Like one big huge stinking pile of a problem?

As Jim Burroway says?(and you should read the link, it?s full of the flaws and strengths of this study):

?When you look at the data, the study?s?real?findings become obvious. Children of parents who have had a same-sex relationship ? a group that includes very large numbers of children of divorced parents, single parents, adopted parents, step-parents and ?other? family structures ? have developmental outcomes which are remarkably similar to children of divorced, single, adopted, step-, and ?other? family structures overall when compared to intact, non-adoptive heterosexual families. Regnerus?designed?his study to show this result by constructing samples which mimicked these characteristics. By constructing his LM and GF samples the way he did, the only?legitimate?comparison he could make would be to children of divorced, single, adopted, step-, and ?other? family structures. But that?s not the comparison he made. He focused the study on making the wrong comparison, and then concluded that children of gay and lesbian parents have more negative outcomes than children of straight parents in intact households.

In otherwords, the study?s ?findings? are false and disingenuous. In fact, what the study really shows is this: If a child has a single gay parent and is from a ?broken? home, his or her outcome is statistically similar to heterosexual homes of single parents, divorced parents etc. That?s a good finding. It suggests??that having a gay parent doesn?t affect the child at all.

Now, if they want to do a good study, they?d look at children that were raised in an intact gay-headed household their entire lives and compare THAT to intact heterosexual families.

But they won?t, because they won?t like the outcome.

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