October 18, 2005: I’m sure some people think I’m nuts when I say that LGBT parents are better than straight ones, but then again, I’m just a crazy gay activist, right? Every right-thinking, morally correct person just knows that can’t be true, can it?

Well, here’s what some of my fellow nutty left-wingers are saying. This is from Ellen C. Perrin, MD, professor of pediatrics at what I am sure is the wildly radical Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston. She revealed the findings at the American Academy of Pediatrics Conference and Exhibition - a fringe group if ever there was one! Everyone know that pediatricians hate kids!

“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. In some ways children of same-sex parents actually may have advantages over other family structures.”

Holy cow! Listen to the findings of these strange things scientists call “evidence-based studies.”

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.”

Another study of 37 children of 27 divorced lesbian mothers and a similar number of children of heterosexual mothers found no differences in behavior, adjustment, gender identity, and peer relationships.

Two other large studies involving more than 100 couples found that same-sex parents also had contact with extended family, had social support, and had a more equitable division of labor in the home.

“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.

How dare these “researchers” use “empirical truth” to prove that LGBT parents are, at least, equal to their straight counterparts? I guess they’re as nuts as I am!

You can read the whole story at Web MD.

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