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No Basis: What the Studies Don't Tell Us About Same-Sex Parenting


  Author: Robert Lerner, Althea K. Nagai
Publisher: Marriage Law Project
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Document Date:                  January 2001
Category: Sexuality > Homosexuality
Related Categories:
Children > Child Welfare
Family Structure > Impact of Family Structure on Children
Marriage > Homosexual Marriage
Parenthood/Childrearing > Homosexual Parenting
Public Policy > Future of the Family
Public Policy > Marriage
 

In this paper the authors point out serious and discrediting research flaws in 49 studies that claim to demonstrate that growing up with same-sex parents has no effects on a child's outcomes.  Major problems identified in these studies include unclear hypotheses, missing or inadequate control groups, unreliable and invalid measurements, non-random samples, overly small samples, and non-existent or poor statistical analysis.

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