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Shockingly....
Mar. 15th, 2005 10:32 amA new study determines that the kids of gay parents are regular humans, just like the rest of us.
And here I was, expecting a third eye or something.
Exerpts:
Orson Morrison is a 32-year-old clinical psychologist from Toronto. Jesse Carr is a 23-year-old non-profit staff member from a rural Pennsylvania town. Jessie Voors is a 16-year-old high school sophomore from Fort Wayne, IN. Erinne Kovi is a 29-year-old businesswoman and mother of one from Ohio.
What do these four people have in common? They all have gay or lesbian parents. Each of them recognizes that in many ways they are unique. But a new study, published in the journal Child Development, confirms what they have always known: They're just as well-adjusted as people with heterosexual parents.
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Before now, as critics are quick to point out, research in this area has had various limitations — in particular, small sample groups and a lack of educational or socioeconomic diversity. But this most recent study is helping to usher in what lead researcher Charlotte Patterson, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, calls a "new generation of research."
Patterson and her colleagues used data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, a survey of more than 12,000 high school students from across the country. "Using a national sample makes us more confident that the findings are stable and applicable to the broad range of adolescents in the U.S.," says co-author Stephen Russell, associate professor of family studies and human development at the University of Arizona.
In other news, California's been told that it's unconstitutional to deny gay people the right to marry. Of course, the forces defending "The Sanctity of Marriage(TM)" will soon marshal to appeal. Meanwhile over here in Florida, the legislature continues its onslaught on the actual marital relationship, by attempting to take the right to act as the legal guardian of an incapacitated spouse away from husbands and wives, especially that one "very bad spouse" who the bill's actually aimed at, in a pathetic attempt to pander to their core constituency.
One just wishes they'd get themselves straight: is marriage a sacred bond in which we forsake all others for our spouse (and therefore should be reserved for the "good" people) OR is it a bond that's only important when it's convenient for the rest of the family, community, and the legislature? Because they're arguing from both sides right now, and make no mistake, it's the same people doing it. If you asked any of the Republicans who're busting their asses this week to pass HB 701, I'm wiling to bet they'd tell you that marriage should be reserved for straight people.
Which reminds me. I really need to file a living will.
And here I was, expecting a third eye or something.
Exerpts:
Orson Morrison is a 32-year-old clinical psychologist from Toronto. Jesse Carr is a 23-year-old non-profit staff member from a rural Pennsylvania town. Jessie Voors is a 16-year-old high school sophomore from Fort Wayne, IN. Erinne Kovi is a 29-year-old businesswoman and mother of one from Ohio.
What do these four people have in common? They all have gay or lesbian parents. Each of them recognizes that in many ways they are unique. But a new study, published in the journal Child Development, confirms what they have always known: They're just as well-adjusted as people with heterosexual parents.
....
Before now, as critics are quick to point out, research in this area has had various limitations — in particular, small sample groups and a lack of educational or socioeconomic diversity. But this most recent study is helping to usher in what lead researcher Charlotte Patterson, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, calls a "new generation of research."
Patterson and her colleagues used data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, a survey of more than 12,000 high school students from across the country. "Using a national sample makes us more confident that the findings are stable and applicable to the broad range of adolescents in the U.S.," says co-author Stephen Russell, associate professor of family studies and human development at the University of Arizona.
In other news, California's been told that it's unconstitutional to deny gay people the right to marry. Of course, the forces defending "The Sanctity of Marriage(TM)" will soon marshal to appeal. Meanwhile over here in Florida, the legislature continues its onslaught on the actual marital relationship, by attempting to take the right to act as the legal guardian of an incapacitated spouse away from husbands and wives, especially that one "very bad spouse" who the bill's actually aimed at, in a pathetic attempt to pander to their core constituency.
One just wishes they'd get themselves straight: is marriage a sacred bond in which we forsake all others for our spouse (and therefore should be reserved for the "good" people) OR is it a bond that's only important when it's convenient for the rest of the family, community, and the legislature? Because they're arguing from both sides right now, and make no mistake, it's the same people doing it. If you asked any of the Republicans who're busting their asses this week to pass HB 701, I'm wiling to bet they'd tell you that marriage should be reserved for straight people.
Which reminds me. I really need to file a living will.
