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October 13, 2005

Study: Same-Sex Parents Raise Well-Adjusted Kids (But the data is VERY suspect!)

by @ 10:32 pm. Filed under Nuts on Parade

A study that seems to indicate that gays are doing a better job raising children really indicates the conclusion is faulty. But if you only read the headline you might be fooled into thinking man has found a better way to raise children than God’s recommended family unit. After all Jesus said:

Mark 10:6-9 (New King James Version)

6 But from the beginning of the creation, God ?made them male and female.?
7 ?For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife,
8 and the two shall become one flesh?; so then they are no longer two, but one flesh.
9 Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.?

Now during that exchange with the Pharisees Jesus was talking about matters of divorce. Even the Pharisees would not have been crazy enough to consider condoning homosexual activity. But just the same Jesus explains how it has been since the start of creation it’s self. That there were men and women and one man leaves his father (male) and mother (female) to marry a woman that he should stay with.

Only a man and woman have the “equipment” to join themselves and create children. Seems God’s way makes perfect sense.

Despite this teaching we know God gives everyone the choice to live as they wish. (Not saying a town has to condone every configuration as “legal”, but God allows every man to choose between good and evil.) He’ll judge everyone himself in the end. So a report on WebMD seems to suggest maybe God’s way is not the best way:

Study: Same-Sex Parents Raise Well-Adjusted Kids

Researchers Say Children Who Grow Up in Households With Gay Parents Have Normal Self-Esteem

Oct.12, 2005 (Washington) — Children growing up in same-sex parental households do not necessarily have differences in self-esteem, gender identity, or emotional problems from children growing up in heterosexual parent homes.

“The vast consensus of all the studies shows that children of same-sex parents do as well as children whose parents are heterosexual in every way,” she tells WebMD. “In some ways children of same-sex parents actually may have advantages over other family structures.”

Well that leads you to think maybe it’s time for everybody to gay-up and do something they claim might offer advantages. But one must delve deeper into the report and you find find who they claim to be doing better than really might not be who you are thinking about. And it depends on what you call “normal” and “advantages”…

Study Results

Researchers looked at information gleaned from 15 studies on more than 500 children, evaluating possible stigma, teasing and social isolation, adjustment and self-esteem, opposite gender role models, sexual orientation, and strengths.

Studies from 1981 to 1994, including 260 children reared by either heterosexual mothers or same-sex mothers after divorce, found no differences in intelligence, type or prevalence of psychiatric disorders, self-esteem, well-being, peer relationships, couple relationships, or parental stress.

“Some studies showed that single heterosexual parents’ children have more difficulties than children who have parents of the same sex,” Perrin says. “They did better in discipline, self-esteem, and had less psychosocial difficulties at home and at school.”

At this point you must be thinking (at least I was) “wait a second”!!! I thought this study would show how a gay couple could do a better job than a traditional family unit, with a father (male) and mother (female) in the home! This study is doing comparisons of one non-traditional configuration to another non-traditional configuration. To compare gays with single parents is like tying one arm behind the back of “normal” for a fight! This is an attempt to infer a conclusion using totally wacked out structures! Using everything but what God ordained!

OK, well given what they claim, let’s see what they find to be “normal” and “advantages”.

“Lesbian couples share household responsibilities and chores more equitably,” Perrin says. “And, the children of lesbian couples are less aggressive, more nurturing to peers, more tolerant of diversity, and more inclined to play with both boy’s and girl’s toys.

WHAT?!!!! This is what “normal” is? This is an “advantage”? It seems to me that the children are less inclined to understand the role of men and women, plus more accepting of “diversity” obviously includes feeling that relationships outside of God’s design are OK. Given the environment they grew up in.

Feel free to read the full article linked above for yourself. But this is a totally flawed study that leaves one wondering when did “normal” include boys wanting to play with girls’ toys and vice-versa :roll: ? Not my view of “normal” at all!

It’s enough to make you say beam me up Jesus, I’m ready when you are!



One Response to “Study: Same-Sex Parents Raise Well-Adjusted Kids (But the data is VERY suspect!)”

  1. Ron_B Says:

    D:

    I heard an interview from a sociologist that studied this phenomenon. She admitted that male children needed the influence of other men on their lives. She SOLD the practice of female couples finding a male mentor for their sons AND BEING ABLE TO DROP A “DUD” AND MOVE ON TO A MORE COMPATIBLE ONE as a good thing.

    So in other words when you are in a traditional marriage and the father of the kid “doesn’t work out” the female can’t “drop him” and find a new one as easily.

    I was so happy to hear callers into the show to rip this lady apart. CLEARLY she began her book with a preconceived notion in mind. She used a small sample to perform her research on.

    AND WORST YET she compared female same sex couples against SINGLE MOTHERS but not HETEROSEXUAL COUPLES.

    What out for the homosexual agenda. They believe what they believe and as long as you agree with them you will not have a problem.

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