Adoption Survey Gives Gay Parents High Grades
Associated Press:
http://www.365gay.com/Newscon07/02/021207parents.htm
February 12, 2007
(New York City) Adoptive parents invest more time and financial resources in their children than biological parents, according to a new national study challenging arguments that have been used to oppose same-sex marriage and gay adoption.
The study, published in the new issue of the American Sociological Review, found that couples who adopt spend more money on their children and invest more time on such activities as reading to them, eating together and talking with them about their problems.
"One of the reasons adoptive parents invest more is that they really want children, and they go to extraordinary means to have them," Indiana University sociologist Brian Powell, one of the study's three co-authors, said in a telephone interview Monday.
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Powell and his colleagues examined data from 13,000 households with first-graders in the family. The data was part of a detailed survey called the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education and other agencies....
The researchers said 161 families in the survey were headed by two adoptive parents, and they rated better overall than families with biological parents on an array of criteria - including helping with homework, parental involvement in school, exposure to cultural activities and family attendance at religious services. The only category in which adoptive parents fared worse was the frequency of talking with parents of other children...
The researchers said gay and lesbian parents may react to discrimination by taking extra, compensatory steps to promote their children's welfare"...
What are the magic words that I can say, to get all of you straight allies to take a stand on this issue, to speak out against intolerance in your communities, in your state legislature? To fight against the spread of misinformation about gay families--that they are a threat to traditional families?
It is your duty, as citizens of this great democracy, to stand up for the marginalized, who do not have enough numbers to stand up for themselves.
Imagine, if you will, if your son or daughter were gay. Now imagine the state telling them they cannot marry or have children, like everyone else. That they are not worthy. That they are sinful or immoral.
Please. Please! Get involved. Join Kentucky Fairness Alliance, the Human Rights Campaign, or any other group. Speak to your state and federal legislators. Do not be a bystander.
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"That they are not worthy. "
---The bible says that HOMOSEXUALS cannot inherit the Kingdom of God.
---God created man according to His image-- that is EVERYONE is worthy and special to HIm that is why Jesus died for everyone.