Not good news for the kids of same-sex couples

Does it really make no difference if your parents are

 straight or gay?

Walter R. Schumm

New data from a well-designed study suggest that it does, 

and it's not good news for the kids of same-sex couples.

The claim that children raised by lesbian and gay parents thrive, on average, just as well as those raised by heterosexual parents has become a commonplace of opinion journalism, especially since the American Psychological Association reported that conclusion in 2005. However, two studies published online this week in the July issue of the peer-reviewed journal, Social Science Research, put a large question mark over that view of the subject.

In one article  Mark Regnerus, an associate professor of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin, reveals the results of large-scale, robust study showing poorer adult outcomes for children whose parents had same-sex relationships, compared with those raised by their own married mother and father. 

(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0049089X12000610 )

The other article , by Loren Marks, an associate professor of Family, Child, and Consumer Sciences at Louisiana State University, reports on a review study that finds no firm basis for the APA’s view that gay parenting is equivalent to heterosexual parenting.

(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0049089X12000580)

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