Homosexual Parenting as "Normal"

As "Normal" As Sexual Abuse of Children

The homosexual propaganda machine, along with its cheerleaders in the Commentariat, portray homosexual parenting as normal.  The impact upon children raised in such a home--by either homosexual men or women--is negligible we are repeatedly told.  The framing presents children raised in such homes as being no different in any significant respect from children raised in orthodox families. Ergo, homosexual parenting is normal.

One slight problem with this argument is new empirical data.
  It flat out confirms that there is a world of difference between an "average child" raised in an orthodox family, and one raised by homosexual parents or other dissolute "families".  The "orthodox" family is defined as: "when children spend their entire childhood with   their  married mother and father, and especially when the parents remain married to the present day", according to the review of the new research appearing in the Washington Times.

The July 2012 issue of Social Science Research demonstrates conclusively that there is a substantial difference.  The conclusion to the paper and research states:

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 . . . the empirical claim that no notable differences exist must go.

Now, it should be noted here that the damaging and dysfunctional outcomes do not just belong to homosexual parenting: children from broken marriages, one parent households, serial monogamist "parents" etc. also produced higher rates of bad outcomes upon children.  Homosexual "parenting" is just one more expression of rebellion against the God who created and ordained marriage.  But its outcomes do not bode well.

This latest research, drawn from a far more extensive data sample, contradicts the Commentariat view that there is no evidence of differences in outcomes and that homosexual parenting is just another option.  

The second study, also in Social Science Research, takes a critical look at the basis of an oft-cited American Psychological Association (APA) report on gay parenting. The APA brief says, “Not a single study has found children of lesbian or gay parents to be disadvantaged in any significant respect relative to children of heterosexual parents,” said Loren Marks, associate professor at the School of Human Ecology at Louisiana State University.

However, after looking at the 59 studies that undergird this assertion, “the jury is still out,” Mr. Marks said. “The lack of high-quality data leaves the most significant questions [about gay parenting] unaddressed and unanswered.”  Problems with the APA-cited studies were their tiny size; dependence on wealthy, white, well-educated lesbian mothers; and a failure to examine common outcomes for children, such as their education, employment and risks for poverty, criminality, early childbearing, substance abuse and suicide. Instead, the APA studies often looked at children’s gender-role behaviors, emotional functioning and sexual identity.

So what differences did the research (which collected data from nearly 3,000 adults) find?  Ian Wishart presents the following summary:

Children raised in a lesbian household are 50% more likely to later describe themselves as homosexual, bisexual or asexual, than children raised by heterosexual couples.

In a stunning new study, reported in the Washington Post newspaper, long-accepted assumptions that there were no differences between gay and straight parenting have been overturned with long term data.  Among the other revelations, children raised in lesbian homes are more than twice as likely to be contemplating suicide, at a rate of 12% against 5% for heterosexual families.

On the issue of child sexual abuse, the differences are horrific. While two percent of children in heterosexual households report being touched sexually by a parent or other adult, a stunning 23% of children in lesbian family units report sexual abuse by a parent or other adult – almost 12 times higher than the rate of child abuse in heterosexual families. (Emphasis, ours)

While fewer than one in ten children who grew up in married heterosexual families have been diagnosed with sexually transmitted infections by adulthood, more than double that number – 20% – of children raised in lesbian families end up with sexually transmitted infections.

Children raised by lesbian families are overwhelmingly likely to end up on social welfare – at 69% – compared with only 17% of children brought up in heterosexual families.

Overall, lesbian parenting had negative outcomes for children in 24 of 40 categories overall, while for gay men raising children there were negative outcomes in 19 out of 40 categories.

On the strength of the results, study author Mark Regnerus, a sociology professor at the University of Texas at Austin said today: “The empirical claim that no notable differences exist must go.”

Evil always integrates into the void, the more prevalent it becomes.


Patrick Fagan, a family and marriage scholar at the Family Research Council has slam-dunked criticism of this research by the homosexual-parenting cause, and served up one of his own:

The Regnerus study is a “gold standard,” Mr. Fagan said. And if “you can’t draw conclusions from it” about causality, “there’s not a snowball’s chance in hell you can draw conclusions from those other [gay parenting] studies,” he said.

HatTip: Maria at NZ Conservative