Part of the FRC's strategy is to pound home the false claim that gays and lesbians are more likely to sexually abuse
children than heterosexual people.
Not exact matches
Assertions that
heterosexual couples are inherently better parents
than same sex couples, or that the
children of lesbian or gay parents fare worse
than children of
heterosexual parents, have no support in the scientific research literature.
I believe that a healthy, sexually active, mutually supportive,
heterosexual couple, deeply in love, completely faithful to one another, generating their own
children, have fuller satisfaction more easily achieved
than do others.
According to his findings,
children raised by homosexual parents are more likely
than those raised by married
heterosexual parents to suffer from poor impulse control, depression and suicidal thoughts.
There is significant evidence in this country and elsewhere to support the idea that there is a link between homosexual culture and paedophile and pederast cultures and that those with homosexual orientations are more prone to seeking sexual partners among
children and young persons
than heterosexual persons.
A homosexual couple can give much love to a
child, sometimes even more
than a
heterosexual couple.»
The researchers noted that the
children adopted by gay and lesbian parents had more risk factors
than those adopted by
heterosexual parents.
I'm thinking this sentence should read: «Marriage equality proponents opponents will trumpet this study as proof that
children raised by loving, committed, married same - sex couples will have more problems
than those who are raised by both biological parents in a
heterosexual household.»
In
heterosexual couples in which men are entering outpatient treatment for alcoholism or other drug abuse, behavioural couples therapy was more effective
than individual based therapy for improving the psychosocial functioning of their
children.
While gay adoption is controversial to some, LGBT couples and singles are four times more likely to adopt
than heterosexual couples or singles, and six times more likely to be fostering
children from state foster care systems.
Earlier this year, a study was released suggesting that
children are better off when raised by
heterosexual couples
than by same - sex couples [1].
But research suggests that gays and lesbians are more likely
than heterosexuals to adopt older, special - needs and minority
children, he said.
33 gay fathers averaged significantly higher
than 33
heterosexual fathers on strictness / limit - setting, responsiveness, and reasoning guidance toward
children on the Iowa Parent Behavior Inventory in Bigner and Jacobsen (1989).
The psychological well - being and social adjustment of
children reared by same - sex parents and
heterosexual parents were identical or nearly so in each of the studies over more
than 1000 observations.
In fact, a few of these studies find that same - sex parents have superior parenting skills and that their
children exhibit a few outcomes superior to
children raised by
heterosexual parents (e.g., Brewaey et al.'s [1997] finding of higher levels of sharing in childcare and parenting skills among lesbian couples; teachers» average higher rating of
children with lesbian
than heterosexual mothers on affection, responsiveness, and concern for younger
children in Steckel [1987]-RRB-.