Since "investigative journalist" Seth Milner loves searching out cherry picked anecdotes from noncredentialed sources in place of having the initiative and balls to look up actual research and science:O Really wrote:That's truly shocking! Even more so since no children of straight or single parents ever have emotional issues or "struggles" with their sexuality or place in the world. It's outrageous that when they could have had a perfect life, free of internal turmoil and conflict, rosy and peachy keen in all aspects if they had just picked parents who were straight, that over 50 kids had issues. Outrageous. Or in the words of the leading Republican Presidential candidate, "yooooogely disgusting!"Seth Milner wrote:And everything has been all rosy and peachy keen.rstrong wrote: Here in Canada we've had same-sex marriage country-wide for over a decade.
" I am the daughter of a gay father who died of AIDS. I described my experiences in my book: Out From Under: The Impact of Homosexual Parenting. Over fifty adult children who were raised by LGBT parents have communicated with me and share my concerns about same-sex marriage and parenting. Many of us struggle with our own sexuality and sense of gender because of the influences in our household environments growing up. "
Of course, Seth Milner will desperately cling to his laziness, voluntary ignorance and bigotry (poor parenting?), but for those interested in real research and science:Maryland family faces harsh criticism after daughter is featured in ‘American Girl’ magazine
The parents of an 11-year-old girl in upper Montgomery County, Md., said they are disappointed and hurt after they received sharp criticism on an article in a popular girls magazine about their daughter, their family and their charity work to help foster children.
Rob and Reece Scheer of Darnestown, two white gay men, adopted Amaya and three boys — all of whom are African American and had been in foster care — several years ago and were recently featured in a magazine run by the huge toy chain Mattel and its popular dolls, called “American Girl.” In the article, Amaya tells of how she and her brother came to the Scheers in 2009 with their belongings in two trash bags. It was their third foster home in four months. The Scheers went on to adopt two other kids who are brothers — Greyson, who is now 8, and Tristan, now 6.
The article, by an adult writer for the magazine, is written through Amaya’s perspective. In it, Amaya promotes the charity one of her dads — Rob — started several years ago, called Comfort Cases, which provides backpacks filled with pajamas, toothbrushes, blankets, stuffed animals and other items for foster kids. The group has gone from providing about 300 kits in 2013 to donating 7,000 to kids in the District, Maryland and Virginia foster care systems last year.
After the recent article in American Girl came out and showed a photo spread of Amaya with her family, her parents said they got a call Friday from a family friend saying there was online criticism from a group called One Million Moms. The group said it is an online project of the American Family Association, based in Tupelo, Miss....
“I don’t live in a plastic bubble,” Scheer said. “I am a gay man and I have four African American kids. I understand people out there are ugly. But I didn’t expect a group of moms to say we are sinners.” He said the family also received several unflattering calls to their home.
“How could somebody hate us so much in their heart by looking at our kids?” he asked of the response from the One Million Moms groups. “That’s what shocked me.”
... Scheer said the comments from the One Million Moms group missed the point. He said the article was “not about two gay men.”
“It’s about kids in foster care that are carrying trash bags with their belongings,” he said. “That’s not acceptable.” ...
World’s largest study on gay parents finds the kids are more than all right
According to the report, the children of gay parents are doing equally well or better than the national average
American Psychological Association: Lesbian and Gay Parenting
Conclusion
In summary, there is no evidence to suggest that lesbian women or gay men are unfit to be parents or that psychosocial development among children of lesbian women or gay men is compromised relative to that among offspring of heterosexual parents. Not a single study has found children of lesbian or gay parents to be disadvantaged in any significant respect relative to children of heterosexual parents. Indeed, the evidence to date suggests that home environments provided by lesbian and gay parents are as likely as those provided by heterosexual parents to support and enable children's psychosocial growth....
