A proxy indicator of SES was assigned based on participant's residential postcode using the Australian Bureau of Statistic's Index of
Relative Socioeconomic Advantage / Disadvantage (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2007b).
Gay fathers tend to be economically well - off, one means by which their children may garner social
advantages relative to other children, while additional research has shown that children of gay fathers did not report differences in sex - typed behaviour compared with parents of other family configurations.58 A large literature shows that parents tend to transmit values to their children along
socioeconomic status lines, with middle class parents typically imparting different values from parents in lower
socioeconomic strata.59, 60 However, little of this work has examined fathers in particular, as distinct from mothers.