Child Abuse Rate at 0% in Lesbian Families

Linus · 11-10-2010, 02:53 PM

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/1..._n_781624.html

So.. all those naysayers on Lesbian/gay adoption where it will hurt the kids... ya. Uh.. no.

girl_dee · 11-10-2010, 03:39 PM

i saw this and I love the findings!!!

swagger · 11-11-2010, 01:15 AM

well i hope that the research is accurate and if it is, i'm damn proud of us.

Sabine Gallais · 11-11-2010, 10:38 AM

Though this is good news, I think folks should look at the polling data. Only 78 offspring were asked the questions. Not an awesome or rigorous representation statistically.

Greyson · 11-11-2010, 10:55 AM

I read this yesterday from the Williams Institute, UCLA. Thanks for posting it Linus.

Bit · 11-11-2010, 11:08 AM

It's just not a big enough sample to be truly representative. I've had abusive partners. I know of a couple with an abusive partner and the couple has kids; they've been abused. I'm sure there are more.

My fear is that when bigger studies are done and the more accurate statistics are brought to light, people will jump on them as some kind of "proof" that lesbians can't be good parents--which will be really sad, since I suspect that abuse rates really are considerably lower in lesbian-parented families than in straight-parented families, even if they're not zero.

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