Experts dispute Bush on gay adoption issue
Are children worse off being raised by gay or lesbian couples than by straight parents? Responding to a question about gay adoption President Bush suggested that they were. "Studies have shown that the ideal is where a child is raised in a married family with a man and a woman," he said in a New York Times interview. As is typically the case with Bush, he's wrong. Experts say there is no scientific evidence that children raised by gay and lesbian couples do any worse - socially, academically or emotionally - than their peers raised in more traditional households. Dr. Judith Stacey, a professor of sociology at New York University, stated "there is not a single legitimate scholar out there who argues that growing up with gay parents is somehow bad for children." Since 1980, researchers have published about 25 studies uniformly finding there are no significant developmental differences.
New York Times
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