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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Actually, op is right. Recent studies show that children of same sex couples are less likely to graduate high school, and are more prone to addiction. I admit it's difficult to find objective info, and easier to engage in the ironically lazy name-calling of the PP[/quote]

I have seen many studies that compare outcomes and find no disadvantage for children of same sex couples, and one study that found a difference.  That one study compared a group of adults who had grown up in intact heterosexual married couple families, with a group of adults who reported that their parents had, at least once, had a same sex relationship.  The second group included children whose married biological parents got divorced, and one of whom later had a same sex relationships.  It included people who raised children in single parent households.  It included families where one parent died.  It also included exactly two adults who were raised by intact homosexual couples, that is couples who were together from the child's birth onward.   We know that divorce, single parenting, and parental death all increase the likelihood of negative outcomes for children, there's plenty of research that supports that view.  So, why not take it out of the question, by controlling for those factors?[/quote]

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