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Austin, Texas, Jun 13, 2012 \/ 03:59 am (CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- Children brought up by partners in same-sex relationships are encountering more difficulties in adulthood than their conventionally-raised counterparts, according to new findings published June 10.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cOn 25 out of 40 different outcomes, there are statistically-significant differences between adult children who grew up with a mother who had a lesbian relationship and those who told us their biological mother and father were, and still are, married,\u201d researcher Mark Regnerus told CNA on June 12.<\/p>\n

\tChildren of these same-sex households were found to have lower average income levels as adults, along with more physical and mental health problems and more instability in their romantic relationships. They also showed higher levels of unemployment, smoking, need for public assistance and involvement in crime.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cHousehold instability,\u201d Regnerus said, was \u201ca hallmark\u201d of households whose parents engaged in same-sex relationships, whether those households were \u201cled by a mother or father.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tRegnerus' findings, published in the July issue of Social Science Research, drew on data from the New Family Structures Study. That survey measured differences in 40 social and personal indicators, among 3,000 Americans ages 18 to 39 who were raised in eight different types of households.<\/p>\n

\tThe new findings challenge data cited in 2005 by the American Psychological Association, which claimed that \u201cnot a single study has found children of lesbian or gay parents to be disadvantaged in any significant respect relative to children of heterosexual parents.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tAccording to Regnerus, some of these influential studies have relied too heavily on small or non-representative population samples \u2013 focusing mainly on highly educated, white same-sex couples, in order to draw conclusions about same-sex parenting in general.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cMost conclusions about same-sex parenting have been drawn from small, convenience samples, not larger, random ones,\u201d Regnerus said in a June 11 statement released by the University of Texas at Austin.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cThe results of that approach have often led family scholars to conclude that there are no differences between children raised in same-sex households and those raised in other types of families. But those earlier studies have inadvertently masked real diversity among gay and lesbian parenting experiences in America.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tThe researcher told CNA\/EWTN News he approached the project with \u201cno idea what the data would reveal.\u201d Upon analysis, he said, \u201cit's revealed far greater instability in the households of parents who've had same-sex relationships.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tIn his June 10 announcement of the paper, Regnerus said his \u201cmost significant\u201d finding \u201cis arguably that children appear most apt to succeed well as adults when they spend their entire childhood with their married mother and father, and especially when the parents remain married to the present day.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tThe sociologist said that his study has already \u201cstirred up a hornet's nest\u201d of \u201cintense and frequent\u201d criticism, which he called \u201cdisproportionate to the study's limitations.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tThe paper has been attacked by the Family Equality Council, Human Rights Campaign, Freedom to Marry, and the Gay and Lesbian Alliance against Defamation.<\/p>\n

\tRegnerus described it as \u201cunfortunate\u201d that his own study \u201cis high-quality and being maligned.\u201d He suggested his findings should simply be held to the standards of \u201cnormal science,\u201d which \u201cexhibits disagreements among researchers about how to measure this or that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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