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The Gay Murphy Brown Effect

Roy323 Wrote: Jun 15, 2012 1:21 PM

"Let me be Clear"(where'd we hear that before?)-I am NOT comparing Step-Children with those raised by gay couples, but there may be some anyway! I have helped raise a pair of Step-Kids as well as *Biological* ones and I don't think the difference in results would be significant enough to warrant mention in professional, unbiased Studies. The primary difference in the two "Families" almost certainly is of Time/Place derivation, (I had more time and Dollars to spoil the latter kids). I strongly believe a Mom/Dad parentage is best and I would believe TWO DADs could be a Horror Story! But I'm just sayin!

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The Gay Murphy Brown Effect

Do children raised by same-sex couples do just as well as children raised by married moms and dads?

U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker overturned California's Proposition 8 in part on those grounds. The scientific evidence is so strong, he ruled, that only an irrational human being could imagine the ideal for a child was a mom and dad.

This week a big hole was punched in Walker's storyline by a new study in the peer-review publication Social Science Journal.

Using a new, nationally representative survey of young adults ages 18 to 29, professor Mark Regnerus of the University of Texas at Austin compared how...

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