Poll Regarding Homosexuality and Adoption

[Stevious]

FREEP This Poll Regarding Homosexuality and Adoption!
Posted by Clump
On News/Activism 12/10/2004 1:05:07 PM PST · 17 replies · 333+ views

http://www.fox23.com/

Please send the message that gays should NOT be allowed to adopt children. This is, needless to say, a very important issue as we Christians stand up and fight for Biblical marriage and family.

[SmokingJacket]

1. Done.

But it's been pretty freeped.

[Stevious]

2. yea...

smells like Freep to me.

[Zep]

9. The point about "freeping" online polls ...

... isn't to skew the results, it's to prove the futility of online polls.

If you've ever lurked in freeperland at all (OK I'm a masochist) they have online polls all the time and never take the results seriously.

One of the few lessons we can learn from the freepers.

[SmokingJacket]

11. Oh, I totally agree.

I just prefer to see them skewed in DU way, rather than a Freep way.

Competitive spirit, I suppose.

[Misunderestimator]

3. Wow, for a second I thought YOU were saying gays not NOT be allowed...

until I realized that you were quoting a freeper... whew. Dismal results so far, which are to be expected of a faux poll.

[LDS Jock]

4. voted

only 20% yes right now

[wellstone dem]

5. up to

24.6

[Old and In the Way]

6. Any studies on the issue?

I'd be interested in knowing the sexual orientation of children in gay families. I'd suspect that the outcome of sexual preference is no different for children with gay parents vs. heterosexual parents.

But I haven't seen any studies refuting or supporting that hypothesis, which seems strange given the current contraversy.

Anyone know?

[SnowBack]

10. If parents change the outcome, we'd all be STRAIGHT...

Another nauseating RW poll that thinks it's OK to give us our rights based on popularity...

:spank:

[Jackie97]

16. I don't care what their sexuality is....

If most of these kids are gay (which they're not known to be), it still doesn't harm anybody.

While we're at it, why don't we consider checking out how many kids in heterosexual families grow up heterosexual to determine if the parent's heterosexuality rubs off on them? Really, it shouldn't be an issue. Unfortunately, it is.

[TaleWgnDg]

17. Your guess is correct and corroborated by many studies . . .

In essence, any medically researched study is only as good as the people who do the study and the methodology used for such study -- the people and means test, I call it. Good, sound, reputable clinical studies, overall, are published in medical (psychiatric) or psychological peer review periodicals, most of which are not published on the internet (for free). That means the general public does not have access to such materials and must, therefore, use other means to obtain such information (as well as an ability to understand and analyze such scientific information). Your local public library may have such periodicals, call them and inquire. Or your local college may have such periodicals, call them and inquire as to that as well as your access to them. Another avenue is your local public law library, call them and inquire.

All that said and done, here's what I've found by googling these terms, "gay parent" OR "homosexual parent" child OR children (entered all at one time, not separately):

http://www.csun.edu/~psy453/harm_n.htm
http://www.colage.org/research/facts.html
http://www.pivotalresearch.com/display_article.asp?article=5549

I am not recommending these (above) websites as containing relevant or credible information since I've not researched the contents of these webpages.

However, I can recommend the contents of this website (American Psychological Association's overview re this issue) at: http://www.apa.org/pi/parent.html

and I quote from it, below:

"D. Conclusion

In summary, there is no evidence to suggest that lesbians and gay men are unfit to be parents or that psychosocial development among children of gay men or lesbians is compromised in any respect relative to that among offspring of heterosexual parents. Not a single study has found children of gay or lesbian parents to be disadvantaged in any significant respect relative to children of heterosexual parents. Indeed, the evidence to date suggests that home environments provided by gay and lesbian parents are as likely as those provided by heterosexual parents to support and enable children's psychosocial growth."
http://www.apa.org/pi/parent.html
http://www.apa.org/pi/l&gbib.html
http://www.apa.org/pi/l&gref.html

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[renaissanceguy]

7. done

and KICK!

[Duncan Grant]

8. Tulsa?

Yes: 27.1%
No: 72.9%

(I'll keep my snide remarks to myself...)

[motely36]

12. I voted

it now 29.5 yes.

[LDS Jock]

13. it let me vote again.. now 31%yes

[readmoreoften]

14. Can we post this on the main LBN or Discussion Board? n/t

[Jackie97]

15. Huh?