Editorial “Gay marriage and children” is sub-titled “Children of opposite-sex couples who are married tend to experience better outcomes.”
WATCHDOG: We read the editorial with interest, expecting to find elaboration on the assertion and attribution of the sources. There were neither.
So we entered the sub-titled into Google and came up with the likely basis of the New Era editor’s allegation, an article by the ultra-conservative Heritage Foundation entitled “New Research on Children of Same-Sex Parents Suggests Differences Matter.”
The New Era editors’ statement of alledged fact apparently came from a mention from one of many studies of a contradictory nature. It could e right; but that is far from certain.
Along with the above link, we reproduce excerpts below from the Heritage article.
We would welcome reporting and discussion on this pertinent matter. The New Era editor may in time prove right. But it is very premature to speak definitively, which they presume to do.
HERITAGE FOUNDATION: …A number of studies and articles have suggested that research shows no difference in outcomes between children whose parents have same-sex relationships and their peers raised by heterosexual parents. For example, the American Psychological Association (APA) stated in 2005 that “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.”
Yesterday the academic journal Social Science Research published a detailed methodological review of the research on which the APA bases its conclusion—a study that questions the validity of the “no difference” assertion…
At present, far too little is known about this new household form into which activist courts are pushing America—and much of what has been presented to date gives an inaccurate picture of the reality that children of same-sex parenting have experienced.
