The Conservative Argument Against Same-Sex Parenting Just Fell Apart

[KamaAina]

http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2016/04/12/3768442/same-sex-parenting-study-population-sample/

Conservatives have long squawked that the studies showing positive outcomes for the children of same-sex couples are lacking methodologically, instead offering their own flawed studies to claim negative consequences. A new study, however, uses their preferred methods — minus the flaws — and proves what the medical community has already long known: same-sex couples make great parents.

The primary accusation against the plentiful research supporting same-sex parenting is that the samples are skewed. Because researchers have to advertise and search for same-sex couples willing to participate, the families self-select to join the studies, and thus may be not be representative of all same-sex families. Conservatives like Mark Regnerus have insisted that their studies, which are skeptical of same-sex parenting, are more valid because they use data from broad population-based surveys, which are more representative and generalizable.

So the Williams Institute, an LGBT think tank at the UCLA School of Law, decided to call Regnerus’ bluff. Using data from the National Survey of Children’s Health, researchers were able to identify same-sex couples who were raising children and compare them to demographically similar different-sex parents. Because few male same-sex parent households were included in the study, they focused on female couples, identifying 95 that they then matched against similar different-sex households....

This juxtaposition actually lends more credence to same-sex parenting. The higher stress rate should have correlated with less favorable outcomes for the children, but it didn’t. This suggests, the researchers reason, that the lesbian mothers might be using additional support systems like parenting groups or counseling services, and likewise, their kids may also develop greater resilience skills having to defend against the stigma of having same-sex parents.

BOOM!

[elljay]

1. "But we all know

that studies are not valid unless they use at least 96 couples."

Anticipated statement from Mark Regnerus.

[progressoid]

2. But it's still icky!!

I doubt "data" is going to make much difference to the loonies on the right but hopefully it will help those people who are on the fence about it.

K/R

[iandhr]

3. Who said facts matter to these people?

[houston16revival]

4. They don't want

same sex parenting

but they do want same sex bathrooms

hope they explain themselves

[keithbvadu2]

5. Conservative parenting and rehoming to child rapists

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141175605