Prayer for Scientific Acceptance

[Dancing David]

Whilst cruising through www.rightwingwatch.org a website of the PFAW I came across this

http://www.frc.org/prayerteam/prayer...prop8-children

Quote:

May this study find wide acceptance and help bring clarity to a confused scientific world, and be the first of many more in-depth studies that will demonstrate what we already know from the eternal truths of Scripture

http://www.utexas.edu/news/2012/06/11/children_same/

"that features a large number of cases in which survey respondents’ parents had been in same-sex relationships."

So not children raised in homosexual families, but any parent who had gay sex one time?

Actually the author is honest!

More pwoer to them!

Quote:

The study did not isolate the effect of having a parent who had a same-sex relationship from other effects such as marital disruptions that preceded or coincided with a parent’s same-sex relationship. Most of the young adults in the survey with gay or lesbian parents experienced divorce or other household disruption as children, and their outcomes were thus more similar to those of children from heterosexual stepfamilies and single-parent households.

Regnerus said the study best captures what might be called an “earlier generation” of children of same-sex parents, many of whom witnessed a failed heterosexual union.

“This study may not reflect the experience of younger children growing up today in same-sex families, particularly because society has become more accepting of gay and lesbian families in the last decade,” he said. “Nor does the study tell us that same-sex parents are necessarily bad parents. Rather, family forms that are associated with instability or nonbiological parents tend to pose risks for children as they age into adulthood.”

My prior question still needs clarification

Quote:

Regnerus oversaw data collection for the New Family Structures Study (NFSS), which surveyed nearly 3,000 American adults (ages 18-39), including 175 who reported their mother having had a same-sex romantic relationship and 73 who reported their father having had a same-sex relationship.

[JimOfAllTrades]

This article in Slate:

http://www.slate.com/articles/health...age_good_.html

seems to say the answer to your question is "yes".

This quote outlines what seems to be the biggest flaw in the methodology:

Quote:

To understand the study, you have to read the questionnaire that defined the sample. It began by asking each respondent, as the child of this or that kind of family arrangement, his age. If the respondent was younger than 18 or older than 39, the survey was terminated. This means the entire sample was born between 1971 and 1994, when same-sex marriage was illegal throughout the United States, and millions of homosexuals were trying to pass or function as straight spouses.

The survey went on to ask: “From when you were born until age 18 … did either of your parents ever have a romantic relationship with someone of the same sex?” If the respondent said yes, he was put in the “gay father” (GF) or “lesbian mother” (LM) category, regardless of subsequent answers. But if he said no, a later question about the relationship between “your biological parents” was used to classify him as the product of an “intact biological family” (IBF) or of an “adopted,” “divorced,” “stepfamily,” or “single-parent” household. In other words, broken families were excluded from the IBF category but included in the GF and LM categories.

(emphasis mine)

There are links in that article to another Slate article by Regnerus, the study's author, for the contrasting viewpoint.

And in another article in Slate a few days later:

http://www.slate.com/articles/health...n_science.html

says:

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Wow. Regnerus’ paper certainly has flaws. But before we all go get our stones, pitchforks, and kerosene, may I suggest an alternative? Trust science. Don’t bury this study. Embrace it. The evidence Regnerus collected can help all of us rethink our ideas about sexuality and marriage. It can enlighten the right as well as the left. In fact, it’s already doing that.

So, can the data gathered really tell us something? I don't know, but I think it bears looking at.

[Dancing David]

In reading the abstract, it does not say what the Xian right wants it to say.

[Weak Kitten]

Definitely seems to prove that legalizing same sex marriages will be good for the children.

Also proves the long known fact that children from stable homes do better then children of divorced or single parents.