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I worry about our systems of education if you have a psych major and honestly think homosexuality is a result of mental illness. What are they teaching in colleges these days??
Some of us are able to think for ourselves and not just blindly kowtow to the liberal education machine. You really need to stop bringing this up and insulting me in this way on these threads. What exactly is the point of this post if not to personally attack me?
I'm a gay parent and completely agree. Being gay doesn't make me any better of a parent. The factors that make us better parents are that we'd already been together 12 years when our twins were born (we're stable), we both are college educated, we are well into our careers and make well above average incomes, we were older when our twins were born (37 and 39), we had already purchased a nice home in a very kid-friendly environment, and I took parenting classes. We're very focused on providing our children with all the opportunities they need. Things like piano lessons, swimming lessons, soccer lessons, travel, etc., so that they can develop skills early. They're also in a private pre-school and can write words and spell some words at age 3. We have many other same-sex parents in our neighborhood and and I think they're all great parents, but for similar reasons to us. I really don't think the fact that we're gay has anything to do with it... other than our children won't grow up homophobic.
My nephew got married at roughly your age, he and his wife followed the same course and have a wonderful boy and girl. These two kids know that I am married to a man and that we are both their uncles. It has nothing to do with the sexual orientation of the parents. It is the dedication and love. I do not know any gay male couples with children, but I do know several female couples with very well adjusted children.
What a sweeping generalization. It's idiotic to take the very limited data on gay parenting and try to compare it to all heterosexual parents. A better study would be those who wanted a child versus those who got pregnant by accident. Or the gays who adopt versus the straights who wanted and got a child through adoption. Anyone who wants a child and has one when prepared (as is the case with the adoption process) will likely be a good parent.
Besides, anyone who knows about research methods knows the sample would be way way way too small to be generalized to the entire gay population. The number of gays is quite small and the number of gays who adopt is even smaller.
It's offensive to us straight people who wanted and had a child to say that a gay parent might be "better."
Why is this even being compared? This is another example of people throwing "gay rights" into the face of those who want them to just shut up and live their lives.
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The part of the study presented here and the thread title are misleading, as we have been discussing here. That's why I said that.
It appears you didn't read the article before offering your opinions on it.
The article was not about just 'one' study.
There have been about 80 different studies on lesbian and gay parenting.
And yes there are studies comparing gay and lesbian couples who adopt with heterosexual couples who adopt.
YES .... they most certainly are. Stark raving mad lunatics who have spent a lifetime demonstrating a level of craziness which often exceeds the conditions they allegedly treat.
Not strange at all. Homosexual women actually have more male sexual partners in their lifetimes, on average, than heterosexual women do.
LOL! Yes I've seen many religious ant-gay crusading websites claim this.
If you like to link to a soirce for your claim, I'll happily show you in detail how they've lied about and misrepresented an Australian srudy that didn't actually show any such thing.
Here's a clue. If you want to make outrageous claims lile that, really check your source or take the risk of being proven to be not only prejudiced but very foolish.
No, I would not. I'm not going to read an 88 page report. Tell me how it refutes what I said about the sample not being generalizable to the population of gays/lesbians.
Of course you're not going to read the research. Why would you want facts?
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You really need to stop bringing this up and insulting me in this way on these threads. What exactly is the point of this post if not to personally attack me?
It's idiotic to take the very limited data on gay parenting and try to compare it to all heterosexual parents. A better study would be those who wanted a child versus those who got pregnant by accident. Or the gays who adopt versus the straights who wanted and got a child through adoption. Anyone who wants a child and has one when prepared (as is the case with the adoption process) will likely be a good parent. 
