New study find that Lesbians raise well-adjusted teenagers.

Posted by Les on Thursday, November 18, 2004 at 01:19 PM. Read 1202 times. Tags:
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Put one more nail in the coffin for the argument that same-sex parents will cause their kids to be emotionally screwed up or raging homosexuals when they get older. An article titled Lesbian couples raise well-adjusted teenagers over at New Scientist reports the results of a study by researchers at the University of Virginia which concludes that “teenagers raised by lesbian mothers show no developmental differences compared to those brought up by heterosexual parents.” This is the first such study done so far as all previous studies had been with regards to younger children (they also showed no difference).

“There’s been this debate about whether being raised by single-sex couples is good or bad for children,” says Stephen Russell, a sociologist at the University of Arizona in Tucson, US. “We would call into question suggestions that growing up with single-sex parents is somehow problematic.”
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The researchers found no differences between the two groups in terms of depression, anxiety, self-esteem and school grades. Exactly the same proportion of both groups also reported having had sex (34%).

But while a previous study suggested children of gay parents were more likely to consider homosexual relationships, this study was unable to provide such information because so few teens reported same-sex attractions and romances.

The single most important predictor of the teens’ well being, the study showed, was their relationship with parents - regardless of family type. “What’s really important is the quality of the relationship,” Russell told New Scientist.

As a result, the authors write that their findings “provide no justification for limitations on child custody or visitation by lesbian mothers” and “do not support the idea that lesbian and gay adults are less likely than others to provide good adoptive or foster homes.”

Imagine that. Kids who have good relationships with their parents will turn out just fine regardless of whether their parents are hetero or homosexual.

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WICKlD United States Posted on 11/18/2004 at 03:34 PM

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I’m the product of same sex parents and I’m just fine!! *twitch**twitch**gnaw*

Brock United States Posted on 11/18/2004 at 04:04 PM

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Heh heh, WICKID. Glad you don’t feel cheated.

The more we investigate these things the more we learn. Well at least, the more we CAN learn.

grey United States Posted on 11/18/2004 at 05:15 PM

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a buddy of mine in high school lived with his mom after his parent’s divorced.  my buddy had a tough time dealing with this, as did his younger brother.  i didn’t know what was going on until after high-school, but apparently his mom came out of the closet and divorced his dad so she could date chicks.  i don’t know if it was the abandonment issues from the divorce or the fact that his mom was a lesbian.  i would have to say both because he seemed too embarrassed about the latter to mention it to anyone.

fred call aka bigbro United States Posted on 11/18/2004 at 07:12 PM

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Boys raised by lesbians have fewer Oedipal like fantasies…..bigbro

Brock United States Posted on 11/18/2004 at 07:40 PM

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grey, my parents divorced when I was 14 and I had a tough time with it too, but my mom married another man. Should I have realized how lucky I was to have a normal mom and gotten over it?

Maybe we should just remove the stigma attached to being gay and that would solve at least half the problems.

grey United States Posted on 11/18/2004 at 07:54 PM

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i’m sure the absence of a social stigma about being gay would have helped him out.

Neodromos United States Posted on 11/19/2004 at 02:12 AM

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I don’t think I could have a lesbian mother….it would ruin the whole lesbian fantasy for me. wink

zilch Austria Posted on 11/19/2004 at 02:30 AM

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Before we acknowledge that these teenagers raised by lesbian mothers are well-adjusted, we have to ask them:

Do you believe in the Virgin Birth?

Since a majority of (by definition well-adjusted) Americans answer “yes”, these teenagers’ responses would be revealing…

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fred call aka bigbro United States Posted on 11/19/2004 at 09:33 AM

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How do you do a DNA test to find the father of a virgin birth?.....bigbro

zilch Austria Posted on 11/19/2004 at 10:41 AM

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bigbro- the real problem is getting Him to pay child support…

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fred call aka bigbro United States Posted on 11/19/2004 at 10:44 AM

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I think the big problem is proving that he didn’t use a condom during a virgin copulation…...bigbro

zilch Austria Posted on 11/19/2004 at 10:51 AM

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Okaaaaaay….

Getting back to the topic, I too hope this will help take some wind out of the homophobes’ sails, but I won’t hold my breath.  This is a doctrinal problem, and we all know how much attention true believers pay to pesky little facts.

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fred call aka bigbro United States Posted on 11/19/2004 at 11:02 AM

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Talk about your synchrony but I was just having a conversation with a friend about women getting it on, what kind of man would complain, and virgin sex in Texas.

Hence, I will share with you everything I know about virgin Sex in Texas…....


Jim, cause ‘Massachusettes Chain Saw Massacre’ don’t sound right….and Texas is a lot easier to spell…welcome to the land of the biggest
churches and whorehouses you will ever see right across the street from one another.

And allow me to tell you the secrets of how oral sex makes the universe expand, as taught to me by a former Dallas sweetheart. She didn’t exactly invent chrome removal from trailer hitches, but she damn sure perfected the science….and the psychology of it all.

The first lesson is: “Fellow, when I am giving you head you only think you are in control of the situation.”.....bigbro

fred call aka bigbro United States Posted on 11/19/2004 at 11:03 AM

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Oh, and I need to add, me and my buddies can’t watch two guys getting it on….but we’ll buy tickets to watch the ladies….bigbro

fred call aka bigbro United States Posted on 11/19/2004 at 11:16 AM

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Yes, I think lesbians are very qualified to raise children. Men just aren’t. Not gay or straight or otherwise (those weird celibate priestly guys). I’d trust two lesbians to raise a child right before I’d trust the Pope or any of his Cardinals (and especially not those lower case priests). In fact, I’m quite convinced that the Virgin Mary was, well…not all that interested in Joseph’s gender in the first place. But you know the Church. They ain’t going to admit that the interpretation of a Virgin Birth was two lesbians in the Holy Lands adopting a child…..bigbro

grey United States Posted on 11/19/2004 at 11:30 AM

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you don’t think men are capable of raising a child?  i don’t have one myself, but my good friend brian is a stay-at-home dad and does an awesome job with his boy.

fred call aka bigbro United States Posted on 11/19/2004 at 11:49 AM

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I don’t know your friend Brian, but my guess is that at some time in the middle of the night he went to Sweden to have a sex change operation and that Brian (now physically a man) still relies on Brenda’s maternally oriented left hemisphere of the brain to raise that poor child properly…..bigbro

grey United States Posted on 11/19/2004 at 11:51 AM

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lol.  that’s awesome.  i’ll have to ask him about that.

fred call aka bigbro United States Posted on 11/19/2004 at 12:03 PM

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Man, you never ask a buddy what he was like when he was a woman. You got to know better than that….bigbro

Rufus-Leroy United States Posted on 11/19/2004 at 03:44 PM

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Let me play devils advocate.
This “study” does not mean a thing. Look at the magazine its published in -New Scientist-. What are you going to do on judgement day look at God and hold up a copy of New Scientist and claim it as your gospel? It does not matter if some secular, godless, science based magazine says childern brought up by lesbians are “well adjusted” their souls will be forfeit because they have not lived in the light of his divine tolerance and have embraced what God has clearly delinated as a sinful life style. These childern should be removed from these unwholesome environments and placed with good Christian parents in order to please God and to keep my demons of repressed homosexuality at bay, sorry oops….Send donations to—
See how easy it is to be intolerant and hateful and yet appear so self righteous!

fred call aka bigbro United States Posted on 11/20/2004 at 09:43 AM

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Whenever someone starts a statement with, “Let me play devil’s advocate,” I know right away that this is a person who is dreaming and fantasizing and wishing with all get-out that they have the powers of Satan. You got a better chance of being blown over by Kryptonite than having Satan’s immense powers….part of which entails Satan being able to force seemingly happy children to go live with strict constructionist Christians, a virtual hell before you die and leave earth…..bigbro

fred call aka bigbro United States Posted on 11/20/2004 at 09:44 AM

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And one more thought just struck…same sex, different sex….hell, at least they are having sex. Look at all the married couples that gave up sex a long, long time ago in their marriages. Talk about your frustrated potential DC snipers in the making…..bigbro

zilch Austria Posted on 11/20/2004 at 10:04 AM

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Rufus-Leroy- anyone who so much as touches a copy of New Scientist will go blind and grow hair on the palms of their hands, so hopefully they’ll know better than to wave it about in God’s face…

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fred call aka bigbro United States Posted on 11/20/2004 at 10:35 AM

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Paul the letter writer:

There is a theory that Paul the letter writer who was struck blind off his ass had a frontal lobe epileptic seizure. While there is also a theory that lightning did the trick…bigbro

Was Saint Paul struck blind and converted by lightning?

Bullock JD.


Department of Ophthalmology, Wright State University, School of Medicine, Dayton, Ohio.

In the Bible, St. Paul (Saul of Tarsus) was struck blind by a light from heaven. Three days later his vision was restored by a “laying on of hands.” The circumstances surrounding his blindness represent an important episode in the history of religion. Numerous theories have been proposed to account for this event which has been the subject of interest of theologians, philosophers, artists, and physicians. A lightning strike could explain all of the features of this episode. The proposal of a theory which correlates St. Paul’s symptoms with contemporary scientific knowledge makes his recovery of vision and conversion no less miraculous or religiously significant since the theory demonstrates that, indeed, the event may have occurred exactly as stated in the Bible.

fred call aka bigbro United States Posted on 11/20/2004 at 10:38 AM

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And isn’t it interesting that the discussion goes from homosexuality to biblical writings in a heart beat?

http://www.godhatesfags.com/main/dicksniderfagmediaexample.html

All mainline media are Fag-Enablers, skewing every editorial decision and story and editorial to promote the filthy fag agenda. This monolithic media orgy of unethical lies is truly a phenomenon, explainable on only one ground: The same mind controls all media, to wit: Satan’s mind.

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