STUDIES STUDIES STUDIES: Bob Folker replies to David Barnes

[Bob Folker is self-employed in Atlanta, GA.]

Barnes: To quote the Stacey paper (PDF): "Relative to their counterparts with heterosexual parents, the adolescent and young adult girls raised by lesbian mothers appear to have been more sexually adventurous and less chaste, whereas the sons of lesbians evince the opposite pattern--somewhat less sexually adventurous and more chaste".

Folker: I've seen this mentioned three times in this site in a negative way. However, one could just as well consider this positively: the females as less repressed and the males as more responsible. Could it be that SS parent households are better? I don't claim that, but anyone brought up in one probably has had to think long and hard about sexual roles. My point is, why do so many assume that SSM is worse for kids?

It may be different in some respects, but no marriage is identical to any other, because each is composed of two unique individuals. Unique, yet equal under the law, and it seems apparent that SSM should be viewed the same way.
posted by Eve at 7:21 PM VOTE

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