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There is no evidence that heterosexual parents are better for children than non-het parents. An important factor is that their parents have a stable relationshi

There is no evidence that heterosexual parents are better for children than non-het parents. An important factor is that their parents have a stable relationship. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01494929.2015.1033317 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01494929.2015.10... https://journals.lww.com/jrnldbp/Abstract/2016/04000/Same_Sex_and_Different_Sex_Parent_Households_and.1.aspx https://journals.lww.com/jrnldbp/Abstract/2016/04000/Same_Se...

CodeGlitch 6y ago
I was referring more to single parent households.
- joefife 6y ago
  Yeah, screw those widows.
  - caslon 6y ago
    Despite (in my opinion) missing the point & also leaning a bit toward "yay heterosexuality!", what that poster said wasn't exactly insinuating anything bad about any other group. When a child has a parent that's died, or a parent that leaves, or a parent that insert 90% of reasons for parental absence, it's natural that they'll have a harder time than anyone else. It's not that the widow would be a bad parent, it's that the kid would have to deal with the terrible situation of having a parent die. If you were really wanting to get to the source of truth there, though, you'd also show how children that get adopted by a non-couple perform. If I had to guess, they're probably doing the best by far, because adoption as a single person is only really possible if you're incredibly stable.
Sigmoid 6y ago
Heterosexual couples have been the norm for thousands of years, and the traditional family has been proven through survival to be a good way to raise children. People don't know the long term societal consequences of a homosexual marriages. Could be no issue, or it could be Pandora's box. Either way, it's stilly to take these studies of <200 families seriously, especially when there's a clear a agenda among political groups to promote normalization of homosexuality.
- jasonwatkinspdx 6y ago
  Yeah, an agenda of having equal rights under the law in a nation that supposedly separates church in state, but where in practice religious justifications are used to deny equality and justice.
  - Sigmoid 6y ago
    I personally dont believe being gay is a right. Just a lifestyle that society happens to tolerate. Using equality and justice to defend LGBT means any fetish or degenerate behavior that is not socially accepted can be justified as oppression.
- TimTheTinker 6y ago
  ^ questioning assumptions is good, even if (or especially if) those assumptions underpin the orthodoxy of the day. Beware any religion, ideology, or group that punishes the honest questioner.

CodeGlitch 6y ago

I was referring more to single parent households.

joefife 6y ago
Yeah, screw those widows.
- caslon 6y ago
  Despite (in my opinion) missing the point & also leaning a bit toward "yay heterosexuality!", what that poster said wasn't exactly insinuating anything bad about any other group. When a child has a parent that's died, or a parent that leaves, or a parent that insert 90% of reasons for parental absence, it's natural that they'll have a harder time than anyone else. It's not that the widow would be a bad parent, it's that the kid would have to deal with the terrible situation of having a parent die. If you were really wanting to get to the source of truth there, though, you'd also show how children that get adopted by a non-couple perform. If I had to guess, they're probably doing the best by far, because adoption as a single person is only really possible if you're incredibly stable.

Sigmoid 6y ago

Heterosexual couples have been the norm for thousands of years, and the traditional family has been proven through survival to be a good way to raise children. People don't know the long term societal consequences of a homosexual marriages. Could be no issue, or it could be Pandora's box. Either way, it's stilly to take these studies of <200 families seriously, especially when there's a clear a agenda among political groups to promote normalization of homosexuality.

jasonwatkinspdx 6y ago
Yeah, an agenda of having equal rights under the law in a nation that supposedly separates church in state, but where in practice religious justifications are used to deny equality and justice.
- Sigmoid 6y ago
  I personally dont believe being gay is a right. Just a lifestyle that society happens to tolerate. Using equality and justice to defend LGBT means any fetish or degenerate behavior that is not socially accepted can be justified as oppression.
TimTheTinker 6y ago
^ questioning assumptions is good, even if (or especially if) those assumptions underpin the orthodoxy of the day. Beware any religion, ideology, or group that punishes the honest questioner.