Doesn’t the research show that there is no difference between families that are headed by a married mom and dad and families headed by same sex couples?
It depends on what you mean by “research.” There are some who insist there is no difference. But even advocates for homosexual parenting have acknowledged that research in their favor is ideologically driven, fundamentally flawed and lacks credibility. At last count there had been at least three reviews of existing literature on sexual orientation and parenting, and all three have pointed to the limitations of the social science behind them. One of those reviews, a now famous article published in the American Sociological Review by two pro-homosexual authors, stated that not only are the studies flawed, but that if anything they show that yes there are differences in the outcomes of children raised by same-sex parents as compared to those who aren’t, and that studies that claim there are no differences are simply wrong. Children who are in same-sex parent homes have higher rates of becoming homosexuals themselves, which shouldn’t surprise anyone, since that would have been the model se