<h1 class="svTitle" id=""><font><a href="http://www.c-fam.org/fridayfax/volume-15/study-shows-homosexual-parenting-not-equal-to-heterosexual-marriage.html">http://www.c-fam.org/fridayfax/volume-15/study-shows-homosexual-parenting-not-equal-to-heterosexual-marriage.html</a><br>
</font></h1><h1 class="svTitle" id="">How different are the adult children of parents who have same-sex relationships? Findings from the New Family Structures Study</h1><ul class="authorGroup noCollab" id=""><li><a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0049089X12000610#" class="authorName" id="authname_N2219f6b0N21cd1d00">Mark Regnerus</a> <a href="mailto:regnerus@prc.utexas.edu"><img src="http://cdn.els-cdn.com/sd/entities/REemail.gif" alt="E-mail the corresponding author"></a></li>
</ul><ul class="affiliation"><li> <span id="">Department
of Sociology and Population Research Center, University of Texas at
Austin, 1 University Station A1700, Austin, TX 78712-0118, US</span> The quality of University of Texas professor Mark Regnerus’ study
highlights the deficiencies of previous studies that homosexual
advocates have relied on to grant same-sex couples a right to marry and
adopt children. <br> <br> "The empirical claim that no notable
differences exist must go," said Regnerus in his study published in
Social Science Research.<br> <br> Regnerus’ comprehensive study examines
nearly 3,000 adult children from eight different family structures and
evaluates them within 40 social and emotional categories. The results
reveal that children who remain with intact biological families were
better educated, experienced greater mental and physical health, less
drug experimentation, less criminal activity and reported overall higher
levels of happiness.<br> <br> The greatest negative outcomes were found
among children of lesbian mothers. This contradicts defective studies
popularized by the media claiming children fare as well, or better, with
lesbian mothers. Regnerus’ study showed negative outcomes for these
adult children in 25 of 40 categories including far higher rates of
sexual assault (23% of children with lesbian mothers were touched
sexually by a parent or adult, in contrast to 2% raised by married
parents), poorer physical health, increased depression, increased
marijuana use and higher unemployment (69% of children from lesbian
households were on welfare, compared to 17% of those with married
parents).<br> <br> Regnerus’ study debunks an often-cited 2005 American
Psychological Association (APA) brief that concluded, “[n]ot a single
study has found children of lesbian or gay parents to be disadvantaged
in any significant respect relative to children of heterosexual
parents."<br> </li></ul>