I have tolerance for your views, you have none for mine.
So when you wrote "Let them get married, don't let them have kids," that was you being tolerant?
As tolerant as those calling me a bigot, yeah. If two guys want to go at it like animals, they have that right.
I do feel that a same sex couple is at risk of effecting a child in ways they wouldn't if they had a traditional family.
I don't have facts, just intuition. I am willing to read any data that goes against my argument.
Let's make this a learning experience.
An article about the preliminary report from the world's largest same-sex parenting study:
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/tick-for-samesex-families-20130605-2npxf.html
National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study:
http://www.nllfs.org/
http://www.frc.org/issuebrief/new-study-on-homosexual-parents-tops-all-previous-research
There are eight outcome variables where differences between the children of homosexual parents and married parents were not only present, and favorable to the married parents, but where these findings were statistically significant for
both children of lesbian mothers and "gay" fathers and
both with and without controls. While all the findings in the study are important, these are the strongest possible ones--virtually irrefutable. Compared with children raised by their married biological parents (IBF), children of homosexual parents (LM and GF):
- Are much more likely to have received welfare (IBF 17%; LM 69%; GF 57%)
- Have lower educational attainment
- Report less safety and security in their family of origin
- Report more ongoing "negative impact" from their family of origin
- Are more likely to suffer from depression
- Have been arrested more often
- If they are female, have had more sexual partners--both male and female
The high mathematical standard of "statistical significance" was more difficult to reach for the children of "gay fathers" in this study because there were fewer of them. The following, however, are some additional areas in which the children of
lesbian mothers (who represented 71% of all the children with homosexual parents in this study) differed from the IBF children, in ways that were statistically significant in both a direct comparison and with controls. Children of lesbian mothers:
- Are more likely to be currently cohabiting
- Are almost 4 times more likely to be currently on public assistance
- Are less likely to be currently employed full-time
- Are more than 3 times more likely to be unemployed
- Are nearly 4 times more likely to identify as something other than entirely heterosexual
- Are 3 times as likely to have had an affair while married or cohabiting
- Are an astonishing 10 times more likely to have been "touched sexually by a parent or other adult caregiver."
- Are nearly 4 times as likely to have been "physically forced" to have sex against their will
- Are more likely to have "attachment" problems related to the ability to depend on others
- Use marijuana more frequently
- Smoke more frequently
- Watch TV for long periods more frequently
- Have more often pled guilty to a non-minor offense