Originally posted by: Wuffsunie
Originally posted by: dnuggett
Here's a study for you I just found.... not backing it one way or another.
Gay Parents = gay kids
Okay, it's an interesting article and raises interesting notions, but it's SUCH a preliminary study it's not funny. No independant research was done on their own part, it was all piggybacked on what others did. The other problem is that all the sizes specified are EXTREMELY small. 25 lesbians and 20 hetro? 22 lesbian and 18 hetro? For a prelim study to see if a theory has any basis those are no bad sizes, but anything definitive would require a sample size of 100X and preferably 1000X larger. The smaller the sample base, the more likely you'll get skewed results. Give me something that tests a MUCH larger population base (more people than cited here probably live on the adjacent floors of my appartment building) that backs this up and I'll conceed.
But if the worst thing that the study can say about kids raised by gays is that they'll turn out gay like they're parents, I got no problem with that! And I still don't see how adoption is a bad thing. Considering both the burdon on the child adoption system in north america (and probably globally) as it is, and the fact that a lot of couples are quite capable of getting a child by some artifical method even if they don't have one or more left over from previous hetro relationships, denying adoption seems quite silly.
-- Jack
It's like they said in that movie. You need a licence to drive a car. You need a licence to catch a fvcking fish. But any dumb motherfvcker can be a parent.
-- 2, the Ranting Gryphen