Posted on 02/26/2013 1:03:02 PM PST by annalex
a b s t r a c t
The New Family Structures Study (NFSS) is a social-science data-collection project that fielded a survey to a large, random sample of American young adults (ages 18–39) who were raised in different types of family arrangements. In this debut article of the NFSS, I compare how the young-adult children of a parent who has had a same-sex romantic relationship fare on 40 different social, emotional, and relational outcome variables when compared with six other family-of-origin types. The results reveal numerous, consistent differences, especially between the children of women who have had a lesbian relationship and those with still-married (heterosexual) biological parents. The results are typically robust in multivariate contexts as well, suggesting far greater diversity in lesbian-parent household experiences than convenience-sample studies of lesbian families have revealed. The NFSS proves to be an illuminating, versatile dataset that can assist family scholars in understanding the long reach of family structure and transitions.
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Yes, exactly. Imagine that...
I don’t recall when you and I conferred (had a conversation) on “postulating” anything.
Basically TV gays are mostly white and upper middle class. Real gays are more diverse in terms of class, personal history like divorce or single parenthood, ethnicity etc. This study focuses on a broader sample rather than other studies where the subjects are recruited and self selected from narrow segments of the population.
so a child in a homosexual controled household has a 1 in 3 chance of being molested by a homosexual.
that ssame child has a slight greater than 50/50 chance of being raped!
imagine any normal mother being told your child has a 50/50 chance of comming home raped today. that is insane.
(now extrapolate to boyscouts!)
the homosexuals of the DC/NY media will not allow this on the airwaves.
low information voters will never care.
Rush will never report this.
Beck ...... no idea.
In 16 you posted to me and in 19 I posted back and use the pronoun “we”. That upset you. I am sorry.
there are more than a few closet commies who are judges at all levels.
the is no reason to have faith in the judiciary.
for judges to rule homosexual behavior is an immutable trait like skin color is akin to judges stating the earth is the center of the universe.
No, you have to then average. That is because kids with lesbian mother are 100% and the kids with gay father are another 100%. Look for example at the voting numbers: they would add up to more than 100%.
If we average columns 2 (Lesbian Mother) and 3 (Gay Father) we get:
Ever touched sexually by parent/adult: (23% + 6%)/2 = 14.5% children of a lesbian parent, custodial or not, report that. In intact heterosexual households the figure is 2%
Ever forced to have sex against will: (31% + 25%)/2 = 28% children of a lesbian parent, custodial or not, report that. In intact heterosexual households the figure is 8%
Note also that it does not say that the molesters/rapists were homosexual or even parents. It does not say if the rape was while still minor.
2 x children of a lesbian parent, custodial or not, report that
2 x children of a homosexual parent, male or female, custodial or not, report that
It does not say if the rape was while still minor.
But it does say that it was forcible rape ("forced to have sex against will"), so it does not count consensual sex between a minor and an adult legally considered rape.
Note, too, that the distinction is further blurred if an adult approaches a minor who has been groomed for such sexual contact; if the parent is the one doing the grooming his chance of success is good, so there would be rarely a need to force anything, and such cases are not reported in the table.
In other words having an intact biological family is much better in most possible ways than any other alternative. Only a hundred thousand years of testing was required for this solution to be validated by research.
It does have a case for “sexually touched by a parent” though it doesn’t specify which parent did the touching.
The "molestation" line, next to last indeed refers to a molestation by a parent. I presume that he did not count rape also in the molestation line.
The rape line, however -- the last one,-- does not specify that it was by a parent, but it does specify that it was a forcible rape.
hundred thousand years of testing
Yes, that is the summary: the fact that to provide for a child welfare, nothing comes close to an intact heterosexual parenting, -- has now been validated by research. Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered citizens are outraged: from the child's perspective it does not make much difference if a parent goes gay or simply keels over.
Don’t be sorry. I don’t know what makes you believe you’ve upset me. I thought we were having a conversation. Perhaps this “misunderstanding” is my fault. I will, at least, accept my share of the blame.
All the studies, of which I have knowledge, indicate that most (“average”) homosexual relationships last, for little more than a few weeks, resulting in seven such relationships a year (hence the reason for saying that “committed homosexual unions” generally prove to be an oxymoron).
Statistics, of course, are subject to further discovery . . . always. Absent “further discovery,” I will continue to insist that “committed homosexual unions” generally prove to be an oxymoron.
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I thought I pinged an article with a link to the PDF of Regnery's study but I can't find it. Anyway, here it (or another one) is.
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"Generally". The phenomenon, however rare it is, needs to be studied by sociologists, unless we want our laws to be shaped by this rarest of birds. I only used the expression negatively in my trailer to the article:
The study, therefore, is more significant in discussing the impact of family breakdown in general, than it is in discussing committed homosexual unions who might dabble in parenting.
Thank you. Sorry if I posted a double, but I haven’t seen the first one either.
minors can never give consent. so they are probably referencing statutory rape. still a henous act by another name.
I don’t know how the children of the two lesbian households with which I am familiar will turn out, but I know that each of those two households has had numerous interactions with the police. The violence has been horrendous and, as far as I can tell, carefully kept under wraps by the authorities. One lesbian twosome has five children, and the other has two — a tragedy for all directly involved and society, as well.
There is no such thing, in my mind, as same-sex marriage, and same-sex couples and their children do not constitute a family. I’m tired of politely pretending to accept this twisted way of life as a marriage ordained by God and the hostage-children in that situation as part of a family. Publicly, most of us keep silent, and I guess I’ll go on doing that until I can find a way to do something without hurting the children anymore than they already are.
True, but the way it is worded in the article, "ever forced to have sex against will", it is evident that the author intended to indicate forcible rape, avoiding the ambiguous, or if you will, legally overloaded, words like "consent" and "rape". He also adds "ever" in order not to limit the incident by age.
Of course not, and I never use the term. This study, by the way, does not address gay "marriage" directly, as it covers different situations involving homosexuals.
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