The UK Daily Mail reports on the exoneration of the Regnerus study:
"A professor who came under attack over a critical research paper about children of gay-marriages will not be fired after being backed up by his school.
The University of Texas-Austin came to the defense of Professor Mark Regnerus after his controversial journal article was published, claiming children of same-sex parents are more likely to be on welfare or depressed than the offspring of heterosexual couples.
His work featured in the July issue of Social Science Research and prompted public outcry after gay rights advocates criticized it as being one-sided and biased.
‘The university expects the scholarly community will continue to evaluate and report on the findings of the Regnerus article and supports such discussion.’
...Rose now plans to pursue his claims with the American Sociological Association, not happy with the findings of a four-member advisory panel who trawled through Regnerus' computers and 42,000 emails before deciding to back his methodology.
'Since it's a sensitive subject that offers quite different conclusions from previous studies, it's not surprising that it has drawn critics,' he told FoxNews.com.
Regnerus’ New Family Structures Study sampled 3,000 people ages 18-39, of whom 248 said their mothers or fathers had a same-sex relationship while they were growing up.
He claimed his study was unique because of its large sample size and that previous studies 'seemed designed to conclude there are no differences between children of the two groups'."
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May the "want" of gay parenting (as if there is market for alternative parenting)begin.... Maybe we should just stick with calling an Apple an Apple, an Orange an Orange philosophy on this matter..?
Everyone has a right to their own opinion, but not their own set of facts. He lost once, he will lose again.. You can't change or wish away scientifically valid facts you don't like. Children exposed to same-sex relationships have horrific outcomes as adults.
Sorry to disappoint, but studies show that by and large, children raised by same sex parents do as well, or in some cases better, than those raised by heterosexuals.
AnonyGrl is apparently referring to "studies" such as those by Charlotte Patterson, in which she invited her lesbian friends over, they all got drunk together and made up a bunch of "data."
Studies based on self reporting by lesbian mothers, looking to prove their agenda.
"children raised by same sex parents do as well or better"
By what standard? By my standard, anyone who has been taken away from one or both parents has already been deprived of one of the most wonderful things that life has to offer: the opportunity to be raised by the parents who created him/her.
Let's compare long-term stable same sex wtih long-term stable man-woman. The results, though small sample size, show similar outcomes in a variety of studies. Unstable families do worse reagrdless of mom-dad or same sex. Regnerus broke no new ground in this way. Finally, mom-dad do not guarantee positive outcomes. I see the dysfunction daily of poor traditional parenting. And I have seen fabulous same-sex parenting.
@Richard,
There is a near complete dearth of same-sex households with children; which is why your cherry picked studies have no value because they were chosen from affluent pervs with an agenda; of course they are going to say their children have no issues, but where are the independent studies driven by interviews with adults who were raised in same-sex households...?
There are none. It is like asking an illegal immigrant if they remember making a choice to immigrate illegally. They will always provide an answer that is most beneficial to them.
This is politics; not science.
Even the American College of Pediatricians backs up the Regenerus findings as the largest and most valid peer reviewed studies to date on the effects of childhood exposure to adult homosexuality.
@Richard: Let's have better understanding of what the gay lifestyle is about. The gay lifestyle is immoral, unhealthy, and destructive. Numerous studies have noted the debiitating effects. The harm to children and confused students are apparent from current and historical records of abuse. The gay agenda ignoring these abuses are vigorously pushing their lifestyle on troubled and confused students in our schools. The gay movement has always pandered to homosexual peodphilia. Allen Ginsberg, Harvey Milk, David Thorstad were gay pioneers and pedophiles with many more. Current gay literature abounds with homopedophilic themes (man/boy lovers) which has been championed as a gay right.
The LGBT model, "break the rules as we see fit"...Gays are a walking time bombs that could go off without warning, there sexual identity and depravity guides their thinking in life. Much like the sexual disorder of a pedophile....
Re: "Rose now plans to pursue his claims with the American Sociological Association, not happy with the findings of a four-member advisory panel"
Typical same-sex "marriage" activism. If you attack one way and don't get what you want, attack another way, sue in a different court, whatever.
And for what? To suppress knowledge?
If we had it there way, we'd all believe that homosexuals were 10% of the population, that there was a gay gene -- and, yes, that there were "no differences" in the outcome of children raised by homosexual parents compared to those raised by heterosexual parents.
Richard wrote, "Let's compare long-term stable same sex wtih long-term stable man-woman. The results, though small sample size, show similar outcomes in a variety of studies."
All of those studies have been discredited as junk science.
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The review by Dr. Loren Marks from Louisiana State University finds that much of the science that forms the basis for the highly regarded 2005 official brief on same-sex parenting by the American Psychological Association (APA) does not stand up to scrutiny. The new study by University of Texas sociologist and professor Mark Regnerus, provides compelling new evidence that numerous differences in social and emotional well-being do exist between young adults raised by women who have had a lesbian relationship and those who have grown up in a nuclear family.
Dr. Marks reviewed studies published between 1980 and 2005 cited by the 2005 official APA brief which asserted that: “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.”
“The jury is still out on whether being raised by same-sex parents disadvantages children”, explains Marks. “However, the available data on which the APA draws its conclusions, derived primarily from small convenience samples, are insufficient to support a strong generalized claim either way.”
Of the 59 studies referenced in the APA brief, more than three-quarters were based on small, non-representative, non-random samples that did not include any minority individuals or families; nearly half lacked a heterosexual comparison group; and few examined outcomes that extend beyond childhood such as intergenerational poverty, educational attainment, and criminality, which are a key focus of studies on children of divorce, remarriage, and cohabitation. In other words, "A lack of high quality data leaves the most significant questions unaddressed and unanswered," concludes Marks.
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http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/authored_newsitem.cws_home/companynews05_02356
Didn't you know that?
Great post, Preserve Marriage. And, as noted by Dr. Marks, it turns out that there was one study that did find that children raised by homosexual couples were outperformed by cohabitating heterosexual couples, with both groups being outperformed by married heterosexual couples. That study had significant limitations, but was better than the other studies methodologically. It was purposefully ignored by Charlotte Patterson when she wrote the APA brief.
This poor guy has been smeared for telling the truth.