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标 题: APA Blasts Allegedly Biased Report on Gay Parents
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Jun 14 17:08:17 2012, 美东)
http://www.apa.org/news/press/response/gay-parents.aspx
A recent study called into question the ability of gay parents to raise well
-rounded children, but the report has been widely blasted as biased,
manipulative, and agenda-based. Now the American Psychological Association
has stepped in to reiterate its belief that gay parents are just as good as
straight parents.
"On the basis of a remarkably consistent body of research on lesbian and gay
parents and their children, the American Psychological Association and
other health, professional, and scientific organizations have concluded that
there is no scientific evidence that parenting effectiveness is related to
parental sexual orientation," the APA announced on its website earlier this
week. "That is, lesbian and gay parents are as likely as heterosexual
parents to provide supportive and healthy environments for their children.
This body of research has shown that the adjustment, development, and
psychological well-being of children are unrelated to parental sexual
orientation and that the children of lesbian and gay parents are as likely
as those of heterosexual parents to flourish."
The APA was responding to the "New Family Structures Study," which called
into question the effectiveness of gay parenting. But according to several
equality groups, the study is majorly flawed.
According to a joint press release from the Human Rights Campaign, Freedom
to Marry, Family Equality Council, and the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against
Defamation, the paper was "written by rightwing author Mark Regnerus (of the
Department of Sociology and Population Center at the University of Texas at
Austin) and funded in large part by the antigay Witherspoon Institute." It
"makes a number of claims about negative outcomes for children raised by gay
and lesbian parents. However, for the most part, the paper doesn't even
look at same-sex couples raising a child together in a longterm committed
relationship."
Many of the study's children considered to be raised in gay households were
not being raised by parents in a committed same-sex relationship, whereas
many of the children in heterosexual households had two married parents.
Children of parents who had at one time in their lives been in a same-sex
relationship were considered to be part of a "gay household." The bias of
the report has sparked much ire. The equality groups point out the study's
major funder, the Witherspoon Institute, is connected to antigay groups like
Opus Dei and the National Organization for Marriage.
It's no surprise that people and groups connected to NOM and the Mormon
Church jumped on the findings.
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