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This is a study on the impact of a homosexual parent on the well-being of the child. This study by Mark Regnerus (www.markregnerus.com), sociologist and author, presently at the University of Texas at Austin, that caused quite a stir in the media; efforts were made to discredit the author and suppress the publication (A Liberal War on Science?). The article is sold at $31.50 but excerpts are widely available on the Net, often slanting the article to fit a particular polemical angle. Lucky for us, Iona Institute made the full text available for free. I believe the article to be important in itself, but also it is important for us to know what is and what is't in the article. While I encourage fellow Freepers to support professor Regnery and his publisher Elsevier Press, I also think it is important for all of us to have access to it.

A few things become apparent from professor Regnery's findings:

  1. A same-sex episode involving at least one parent has a statistically significant impact on the well-being of a child.
  2. This impact is comparable to the negative impact of a broken or reconstituted family regardless of sexual orientation.
  3. The subject of the study is a sample of children raised by parents who in part exhibited homosexual behavior, but it is not a study of children raised in same-sex unions, legal or otherwise.

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. The fact that the study has produced such a hostility from the homosexual lobby is a damning addition to the ugly image that lobby has built for itself.

1 posted on 02/26/2013 1:03:16 PM PST by annalex
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2 posted on 02/26/2013 1:04:51 PM PST by annalex (fear them not)
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To: annalex

I agree with the suggestion of supporting Prof. Regnerus, but his publisher, Elsevier Press, is another matter. Get the free download the Iona Institute is offering quick before Elsevier sues to have it taken down.


4 posted on 02/26/2013 1:11:09 PM PST by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
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To: annalex

Well, the top recruitment method is to molest them as kids, so...


5 posted on 02/26/2013 1:15:47 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: annalex

The impact on these children has hideous results.

Even if a person leaves God out of the equation and argues strictly biologically we are designed for male and female to produce offspring, each having a roll in the rearing (which is different between the two) because of that and that alone any raising of offspring outside of that does not produce normal children - it is not possible.


7 posted on 02/26/2013 1:19:20 PM PST by svcw (Why is one cell on another planet considered life, and in the womb it is not.)
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To: annalex
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.

no matter how many times i read this sentence, i cannot wrap my mind around it... i have no idea what he is saying here...

8 posted on 02/26/2013 1:19:22 PM PST by latina4dubya ( self-proclaimed tequila snob)
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To: annalex
Fags make fags. I suppose this is an odds thing.

Every fag I've known has a lot more problems than faggery. Two have committed suicide....

15 posted on 02/26/2013 1:36:41 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: annalex
"committed homosexual unions"

This, I believe, will generally prove to be an oxymoron.

16 posted on 02/26/2013 1:37:15 PM PST by YHAOS
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To: annalex
Significant results are on pdf page 761 (I know the table will not format well here)
Table 2
Mean scores on select dichotomous outcome variables, NFSS (can read as percentage: as in, 0.42 = 42%).
IBF (intact bio family);LM (lesbian mother); GF(gay father);
Adopted by strangers; Divorced late (>18);Step family;Single parent;All;other
Currently married 0.43 0.36 0.35 0.41 0.36 0.41 0.37 0.39
Currently cohabiting 0.09 0.24 0.21 0.07^ 0.31 0.19 0.19 0.13
Family received welfare growing up 0.17 0.69 0.57 0.12^ 0.47^ 0.53^ 0.48^ 0.35^
Currently on public assistance 0.10 0.38 0.23 0.27 0.31 0.30 0.30 0.23
Currently employed full-time 0.49 0.26 0.34 0.41 0.42 0.47^ 0.43^ 0.39
Currently unemployed 0.08 0.28 0.20 0.22 0.15 0.14 0.13^ 0.15
Voted in last presidential election 0.57 0.41 0.73^ 0.58 0.63^ 0.57^ 0.51 0.48
Thought recently about suicide 0.05 0.12 0.24 0.07 0.08 0.10 0.05 0.09
Recently or currently in therapy 0.08 0.19 0.19 0.22 0.12 0.17 0.13 0.09
Identifies as entirely heterosexual 0.90 0.61 0.71 0.82^ 0.83^ 0.81^ 0.83^ 0.82^
Is in a same-sex romantic relationship 0.04 0.07 0.12 0.23 0.05 0.13 0.03 0.02
Had affair while married/cohabiting 0.13 0.40 0.25 0.20 0.12^ 0.32 0.19^ 0.16^
Has ever had an STI 0.08 0.20 0.25 0.16 0.12 0.16 0.14 0.08
Ever touched sexually by parent/adult 0.02 0.23 0.06^ 0.03^ 0.10 0.12 0.10 0.08^
Ever forced to have sex against will 0.08 0.31 0.25 0.23 0.24 0.16 0.16^ 0.11^
Bold indicates the mean scores displayed are statistically-significantly different from IBFs (currently intact, bio mother/father household, column 1),
A child raised in a lesbian or gay household is several times more likely to have been on welfare, been sexually molested by a parent, or raped.
18 posted on 02/26/2013 1:48:12 PM PST by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: annalex
I disagree with the title of the this article. Gay couples are not the 'parents' of children. The best they can be are legal guardians.
21 posted on 02/26/2013 2:27:55 PM PST by mtg
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