Sono_hito wrote:There have been sociological studies that have shown that children raised by homosexual parents tend to be just as well developed as hetero parents.
For a given value of 'well developed', perhaps.
Many times better due to several factors. Since you cannot "accidently" have a child, same sex parents tend to be older and more secure in their jobs. Since any children must be adopted, they are generaly more completely planned for with their raising.
It's not a case of them being 'many times better', it's a matter of these factors contributing to the elimination of children being placed in dysfunctional families. It's not that the homosexual parents are doing spectacularly better than the heterosexual biological parents, it's a matter of children being kept out of the hands of dysfunctional homosexual parents.
If we had laws in place which kept children out of the hands of hereosexual biological parents, we'd see a significant improvement in the general welfare of children belonging to heterosexual biological parents. But it wouldn't be because heterosexual biological parents have suddenly lifted their game, it would be an artificial result of keeping the children out of the hands of the dysfunctional parents.
You also need to compare homosexual adoptive parents with hereosexual adoptive parents, and compare hereosexual adoptive parents with heterosexual biological parents. You need to include all relevant factors, such as demographic data, psychological history, and relationship history. Then you can start to draw meaningful conclusions.
And if your worried about more children becoming homosexual, multiple studies on the subject have clearly shown that there is exactly the same rate of homosexuality as with hetro parents.
Again, you need to explain all the factors involved.
When you get right down to it, same sex parents tend to do just as well as hetero parents.
Well we haven't seen that yet.
Theres also the very easily shown issue that the "traditional family unit" has changed almost continualy throughout recorded history.
What do you mean that 'the "traditional family unit" has changed almost continualy throughout recorded history'?
So this current trend/change is par for the course of child rearing changes of history.
A change isn't necessarily a good change. The post-modern nuclear family is largely a complete mess. This is surprising, since it's based on all those great ideas which people 40 years ago said were going to be so good for society, and result in such great improvements. Now we have high schools equipped with armed security guards and metal detectors, and record high levels of teen depression and suicide, neither of which have any precedent in recorded human history.
I'm not sure if this is exactly what people were aiming at when they argued it wasn't important for parents to spend time with their children, and that divorce and single parenthood have no significant effect on child psychology. But hey, we all have our human rights, yeah? And they've done wonders for families, haven't they? Absolute miracles. I'm so impressed. More human rights, I say.
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