LifeSiteNews.com
Wednesday April 28, 2004
Same-Sex
Parenting is Harmful to Children Says REAL Women of
Canada
Re-published with permission from the
March/April 2004 issue of REAL Women of Canada's REALITY
magazine
http://www.realwomenca.com/
The Canadian Psychological Association has ceased to be a
scientific organization and instead, has become a political
organization promoting politically correct thought.
In November 2003, the Association made the startling announcement
that there is no heightened risk of problems from same-sex
parenting, or an increased likelihood for children living in such
partnerships to become gay themselves.
According to the Association, "studies have shown almost no
difference in sexual preference or in psychosocial development for
children of same-sex parents." On what basis did the Association
reach such a conclusion? Certainly, it could not have looked at
recent findings in social science journals to reach this
conclusion. If the Association had troubled itself to look at the
current literature, it would have, in all decency, been disturbed
by their conclusions, and, with professional integrity, issued
quite a different statement.
According to the American Journal of Diseases of Children and The
Advocate, close to 60% of adolescent AIDS sufferers were infected
by adult bisexual and homosexual men. Thousands of these American
boys are now dead. The same is probably true for other western
countries like Canada, where many young runaway boys end up
prostituting themselves for men.
Child development is fragile and a complicated matter. Several
million years of heterosexuality explain the present human
condition. A family headed by two men or two women is a new
phenomenon, which entails great uncertainty.
It is bizarre, therefore, that experts and politicians often
express concerns about the emotional impact of single-parent
families on children, as indicated by the Statistics Canada
National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth, October, 1996,
while, on the other hand, they appear to be absolutely indifferent
to the plight of children who grow up in same-sex partnership
arrangements. Public policy makers should be concerned - deeply
concerned.
Same-sex Parenting
According to the recent quantitative analysis on same-sex parenting
by Lerner and Nagai, 49 American studies, which advocate homosexual
parenting, have fatal flaws, rendering them statistically invalid
(non-representative samples, imprecise hypotheses, confused
political objectives, etc.). The researchers concluded that the
studies repeatedly referred to by American, European and Canadian
homosexual lobbies should not be used to influence the politics of
their respective governments. This conclusion was also expressed by
Professor Stephen L. Nock, Professor of Sociology, University of
Virginia, who, in an affidavit submitted by the federal Attorney
General in the Ontario Court of Appeal same-sex marriage case,
evaluated statistics on same-sex parenting and concluded that the
studies were flawed in either design or execution, which rendered
them totally invalid.
According to a paper published by Professor Bradley P. Hayton,
there are serious concerns about the effects of a homosexual
lifestyle on children.
Professor Hayton states:
Homosexuals... model a poor view of marriage to children. They are
taught by example and belief that marital relationships are
transitory and most sexual in nature. Sexual relationships are
primarily for pleasure rather than procreation. And they are taught
that monogamy in a marriage is not the norm [and] should be
discouraged if one wants a good 'marital' relationship.
The reason that same-sex parenting is detrimental to the well being
of children is due to several factors:
1. Higher Incidence of Violence
There is a higher rate of violence in lesbian and homosexual
relationships than in married, heterosexual relationships. A study
in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence examined conflict and
violence in lesbian relationships. The researchers found that 90%
of the lesbians surveyed had been recipients of one or more acts of
verbal aggression from their intimate partners during the year
prior to this study, with 31% reporting one or more incidents of
physical abuse. This is verified in a number of other studies.
According to the homosexual authors of Men Who Beat The Men Who
Love Them, domestic violence affects half of all gay couples. The
vast majority of violent crimes against homosexuals are committed
by homosexuals, and are not considered hate crimes. According to
the leading US gay magazine The Advocate, 75% of its readers admit
engaging in violent sex, 20% in sadistic sex and 55% are using
painful objects.
2. Higher Incidence of Mental Health Problems
There is a higher incidence of mental health problems among
homosexuals and lesbians. These include problems of substance
abuse, as well as a greater risk for suicide. Homophobia is often
blamed for the high suicide rate of young gays but this cause is
only one among many, such as prostitution, broken families, sexual
assault at a young age, disappointments in love affairs, and
premature homosexual labeling.
3. Reduced Life Expectancy
Male homosexuals have a significantly reduced life expectancy. A
study published in the International Journal of Epidemiology on the
mortality rates of homosexuals stated as follows:
In a major Canadian center, life expectancy at age twenty for gay
and bisexual men is eight to twenty years less than for all men. If
the same pattern of mortality were to continue, we estimate that
nearly half of gay and bisexual men currently aged twenty years
will not reach their sixty-fifth birthday. Under even the most
liberal assumptions, gay and bisexual men in this urban center are
now experiencing a life expectancy similar to that experienced by
all men in Canada in the year 1871.
4. Higher Incidence of Same-sex Orientation
Same-sex parents are inclined to influence their children's sexual
orientation. A study published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior,
stated as follows:
...there are developmentally important, statistically significant
differences between children reared by homosexual parents compared
to heterosexual parents. For example, children raised by
homosexuals were found to have greater parental encouragement for
cross-gender behaviour [and] greater amounts of cross-dressing and
cross-gender play/role behaviour.
5. Greater Risk of Sexual Involvement with Parents
According to a study published in Adolescence, 29% of the adult
children of homosexual parents have been specifically subjected to
sexual molestation as a child by a homosexual parent, compared to
only 0.6 percent of adult children of heterosexual parents.
These findings were confirmed in a study published in the American
Sociological Review.
6. Greater Risk of Social or Psychological Problems
The vast majority of the American studies widely used by homosexual
activists claim that same-sex parenting is as valid as opposite-sex
parenting. However, as mentioned previously, these earlier studies
have been found to be seriously flawed. According to a study there
were noticeable problems with children raised by same-sex parents
in regard to discipline expectations, and general parent-child
relationships. Other studies have also reported that boys raised by
homosexual mothers may have a lower self-image, regarding
masculinity.
A study of children of lesbians revealed many problems, including a
"defensiveness" on the part of the children of lesbian couples she
studied, a pattern of denial - especially deep in the youngest
child in the lesbian couples, hostility from older boys, especially
directed at the mother's lesbian lover, the children expressed
concern for the welfare of siblings, the children had concerns
about their own sexuality, the children had concerns about the
integrity of their family, concerns about their mother's homosexual
activities, there was evidence that one of the lesbian mothers
expressly encouraged her daughters to make lesbian sexual choices,
and that the children were forced to conceal one parent's secret
sexual behaviours from the other parent.
All these problems have led to the children raised by same-sex
parents becoming dysfunctional and disadvantaged.
