Teens With Same-Sex Parents Well-Adjusted

[tomfodw]

Why does Yahoo News hate Jesus?

Teens With Same-Sex Parents Well-Adjusted

By Karen Pallarito
HealthDay Reporter

MONDAY, Nov. 15 (HealthDayNews) -- Adolescents who have two moms as parents are no different from teens growing up with a mother and a father, a new study finds.

On measures of psychosocial well-being, school functioning, and romantic relationships and behaviors, the teens with same-sex parents were as well adjusted as their peers with opposite-sex parents. The authors found very few differences between the two groups. A more important predictor of teens' psychological and social adjustment, they found, is the quality of the relationships they have with their parents.

"This is the first study that has looked at adolescents with same-sex parents in a national sample, and it shows clearly across a wide range of variables that they're doing pretty well," said study author Charlotte J. Patterson, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.

The research, published in the November issue of Child Development, draws data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, a school-based study of the health-related behaviors of kids in grades 7-12.

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I'm sure James Dobson will "find" some poor schmuck with two daddies who is a serial murderer and kiddies' underwear fetishist to parade before the easily shocked Koolaid drinkers of middle America and their panderers in the press. Evidence is nothing in the face of faith.

[demnan]

1. Of course they are

they don't participate in the psychotic fear that other people show against homosexuals.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

2. Good, we need a lot more of these studies.

"This is the first study that has looked at adolescents with same-sex parents in a national sample, and it shows clearly across a wide range of variables that they're doing pretty well," said study author Charlotte J. Patterson, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.

If we want to convince people we need an exhaustive amount of university studies.

[Moderator]

3. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=993375