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To: BlackVeil
I would like to see some studies of mental illness and social disadvantage among children raised by gay parents.

Today is your lucky day.

Family Structure Studies

21 posted on 08/18/2015 3:20:57 PM PDT by fwdude (The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
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To: fwdude; BlackVeil

http://www.familystructurestudies.com/summary

[Comment: these guys cannot write.]

Glossary:

MLR: mother in a lesbian relationship

FGR: father in a gay relationship

IBF: intact biological family

Excerpt:

Findings on Differences in Emotional and Mental Health

Respondents were asked to report their sentiment about their family experiences while growing up. The children of MLRs reported the lowest levels of perceived safety in their childhood home, followed by children of FGRs, with the children of IBFs reporting the highest levels of perceived safety. When asked if they were recently or currently in therapy “for a problem connected with anxiety, depression, relationships, etc.,” the children adopted by strangers reported receiving such therapy the most, followed by the children of MLRs. The children from IBFs were least likely to report receiving therapy.

On the CES-D depression index, an eight-measure survey of respondents’ happy-to-depressed thoughts over the previous seven days, the young-adult children of MLRs and FGRs reported statistically significantly higher levels of depression than young-adult children from IBFs. The young-adult children of FGRs were two times more likely to have thought about suicide in the previous 12 months than the children of MLRs, and almost five times more likely than the children of IBFs to have thought about the same.


47 posted on 08/18/2015 4:06:36 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Men need a reason to shop. Women need a place.)
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