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Dads may be important, but having two moms doesn’t seem to negatively impact a child’s development, according to a new study.

http://psychcentral.com/news/2010/06/08 ... 14406.html

The study began in 1986 with around 80 lesbian families when they underwent artificial insemination. Their kids are around 17-23 now and they did a number of psychological tests on them.

While I'm not surprised at the results, as I never held any bias against same-sex families, it's interesting to look at this study, albeit with a very small study group, in this time where homosexuals aren't always so tolerated, and especially child-rearing homosexual couples.

The possibility of this being a fluke can't be ruled out, and the no one is saying that ALL lesbian families with children are this way. Maybe the fact that they realized they were in a study effected the results? Very possible. Like your average hetero family, there's the good and the bad.

What do you guys feel about same-sex families with children? I don't want to get into a debate on homosexuality, that's for another topic. What do you expect the children to be? More or less the same? Do you think being brought up without a parent of a certain sex is detrimental to a child's growth?

don't be noobs

Ha, dykes.

u gay dawg

meh, that can have too many prblms with it, not convinced

clarify "too many probs"?

and it's not exactly the best study. that will come with time.

it's a first step.

Regardless of this article, i'd like to my sister be lesbian.

donno why, maybe i am a jelous brother?

TOloseGT wrote:What do you guys feel about same-sex families with children? I don't want to get into a debate on homosexuality, that's for another topic. What do you expect the children to be? More or less the same? Do you think being brought up without a parent of a certain sex is detrimental to a child's growth?

Eh, 'll only direct my attention to the last couple of questions

I could really care less about same-sex families with kids ....as long as the kids are cared for and not harmed, more or less, by the parents responsible for 'em, don't really care who they [the parents] are attracted to...

Is it detrimental to the child's growth without a specific gender for a parent? ...

Don't think so ... hell, I was raised in a "straight" household...

Like you said, there's the bad and there's the good ....the few "male" role models in my life were, more or less, an utter let down from my meth head of an older brother who stole my crap to sale for his next hit to my coke addicted father and abusive, dick of a then-stepfather....but then again, that's the bad ...

I'd think I would've been better off not having them in my life (father figures), but at the same time, I'm thankful ...because they showed me the kind of parent not to be ... while my mom on the other hand, the hardest working person I've met up to this day, who sacrificed a shit load for her kids, by herself, showed me what it means to be a parent ...

to be honest, I could give two shits about the gender of a parent ...it's what they do that counts, not what gender they are. You could alter the only "father figures" in my life with a lesbian companion to my mother, but it'd still be to the same effect: no real father figure to rely on...lol

Joking aside, you could change the fatherly figures' gender, while the actions remain the same in the above paragraph ... it'd still produce the same general effect: no real decent "parent" figure to rely on...

of course, the circumstances are conditional when going on about parenting having an affect on a child's development and as such, things differ greatly from one household to another that'll always give varying results...

Sharp324 wrote:Ha, dykes.

lol'd at your comment in combination with your sig

Well to be fair, no one really has that much issues with lesbians. I imagine that male gay couples' children would be worse off because acceptance for male gay couples is still terrible. It's also a lot harder to adopt as a male gay couple because a lot of countries do not allow gay adoption.

I personally don't care at all. I have a friend that has "two mothers", my sister has one and they're all perfectly happy. I wouldn't say they have any more or any less problems than anyone else. My friend does not suffer from a lack of Y chromosomes during his upbringing so is all is good.

Like Ningy said, it doesn't really matter the gender of the parents, but their success as one.

edit: yeah replaced role with success, I kinda didn't pass the message there lol

Of course they have less problems. Who would make a problem of having 2 lesbian women in the house

As for the results, well, I don't know ... I think lesbian couples take more care of their children (as in the way they give them more and that kind of things), because they REALLY need to do a big effort to get children, so they'll threat it better AVERAGELY than a normal family, I guess.

Corevalue wrote:Of course they have less problems. Who would make a problem of having 2 lesbian women in the house

As for the results, well, I don't know ... I think lesbian couples take more care of their children (as in the way they give them more and that kind of things), because they REALLY need to do a big effort to get children, so they'll threat it better AVERAGELY than a normal family, I guess.

Astute point. They believe one of the reasons were that lesbian mothers tend to have less accidental pregnancies (well, zero chance actually lawl) than hetero couples do, thus lesbian couples plan their pregnancy better and thus have a much better chance of giving the child a suitable environment to grow up in, as opposed to the great majority of early 20 couples.