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By Scott Kaufman
Sunday, July 6, 2014 9:39 EDT
A study conducted by researchers at the University of Melbourne, in Australia, found that the children of same-sex couples fare better than the general population on measures of general health and family cohesion.
Simon Crouch and his team performed a cross-sectional survey of 315 same-sex parents, representing over 500 children. Unlike many studies of same-sex parenting, the majority of respondents were lesbians parents.
The results indicated that children raised by same-sex parents average six percent higher than the population at large when it comes to general health and family cohesion.
Thats really a measure that looks at how well families get along, and it seems that same-sex-parent families and the children in them are getting along well, and this has positive impacts on child health, Crouch told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
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RKP5637
(67,112 posts)shenmue
(38,506 posts)There could be... Happiness!
We must all be protected from the great menace.
Lee-Lee
(6,324 posts)Same sex couples who adopt actively chose to have kids and worked toward that. Many opposite sex couples end up with kids they didn't really want or plan on, and the subsequent care reflects that.
eridani
(51,907 posts)Same sex couples never have kids accidentally.