An internal audit conducted by the same journal that published Regnerus» paper bluntly called it «bullshit» because it did not look at children raised in intact households of married same - sex couples. (firstthings.com)
«Father» could be anything from a gamete provider who never lived with a child to a husband in a functioning intact household. (thelizlibrary.org)
Studies of parents» interactions and roles in intact households instead indicate that most time spent by fathers with their children is in the areas of play, and in most households, the modeling of self - control, the primary nurturing AND the discipline all are tasks befalling the primary caregiver — most of the time, the mother. (thelizlibrary.org)