Posted on 03/19/2002 6:29:36 PM PST by anniegetyourgun
To: National Desk
Contact: Julie Neils of Focus on the Family, 719-548-4634
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., March 19 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Following was released today by Focus on the Family:
Last month an eight-member executive committee of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) endorsed same-sex parenting, claiming that children raised by homosexuals fare just as well as children whose parents are heterosexual. Talk show host Rosie O'Donnell recently added her voice to what appears now to be a coordinated effort to achieve yet another cherished objective by homosexual activists. Significantly, O'Donnell announced her opposition to the Florida law banning adoption by homosexual couples on ABC's "Primetime Thursday." In sharp disagreement, Dr. James Dobson, heard by 7.5 million listeners each week, emphasized the important role mothers and fathers play in parenting on his national daily broadcast this week and discussed the facts surrounding this critical matter.
-- The AAP's endorsement of homosexual parenting is NOT supported by the research. Drs. Robert Lerner and Althea Nagai, professionals in the field of quantitative analysis, examined 49 empirical studies on same-sex parenting. They found no basis for the conclusion that children raised by homosexual parents fare just as well as those raised by homosexual parents. They found serious methodological flaws in each of the studies examined, including inadequate sample size, biased sample selection, lack of proper control groups and the failure to account for confounding variables indeed, the AAP's own report began with this statement, "Accurate statistics regarding the number of parents who are gay or lesbian are impossible to obtain."
-- The AAP's committee's recommendations have ignited a firestorm of protest among America's rank and file pediatricians. Many physicians have condemned the report, challenging its assumptions and criticizing the research cited by the committee as "seriously flawed." Some pediatricians have pulled out of the organization and many others are threatening to as well. The AAP reportedly conducted a poll regarding the issue on their "members only" Web site, and 75 percent of those responding strongly disagreed with the committee's report.
-- Children raised by homosexual parents are more likely to experience gender and sexual confusion, more likely to become promiscuous and more likely to experiment with homosexual behavior. They are also at greater risk of losing a parent to AIDS, substance abuse or suicide.
-- Children raised in a stable, married, heterosexual home do better than children raised in any other type of household. They are healthier physically and emotionally, do better academically, experience less poverty and commit fewer crimes.
-- Children need both a mother and a father. Why? Sociologist David Popenoe of Rutgers University has done extensive research on the different functions that mothers and fathers play in their children's lives. His studies show that while fathers tend to stress competition, challenge, initiative and risk-taking, mothers stress emotional security and personal safety. When disciplining, mothers provide important flexibility and sympathy, while fathers provide predictability and consistency. By nature, same-sex couples are unable to provide one-half of this equation.
I agree 100%.
I've seen children "grabbing for air" in one parent families ! They feel the lack of "something", but are unable to explain why they're so lost. I can imagine if two of the same sex were there. I feel so sorry for the social "guinea pig" kids being placed in homosexual homes today because maybe, just maybe, they'll be OK.
The homosexuals have published their agenda. Imagine a child in a home like this :
Demand consistency when arguing with special gay rights radicals-- it infuriates them!
Read the entire homosexual manifesto. Be scared. Be very scared. Read it and weep.
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We won't have a decent country again unless we stop listening to batbrains like Rosie and witch doctors like the APA.
No religious or personal attacks please. Please follow the FRee Republic rules. Thank you.
I know someone who has been through this ordeal, a good friend who bared her soul to me over the course of many years. The experience just about destroyed her capacity for a happy heterosexual relationship. She insists that any claim that a straight kid can be well-adjusted when his or her parents are modeling same-sex behavior day in and day out, year in and year out, is absolutely absurd.
In a nutshell. Catholic bump.
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