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Newsflash! Just in case there was any doubt, another study has confirmed what by now should be common knowledge: that children raised by same-sex parents are doing just as well as their peers raised by heterosexual parents.
An article published this week in the Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics (JDBP) found no differences in terms of general health, emotional difficulties, coping behaviour or learning behaviour between children raised by two moms and children raised by a mom and dad. It turns out that kids? outcomes are?surprise!?more dependent on the quality of parenting than on their parents? sexual orientation.
Although sexual orientation may have something to do with it: as the JDBP study points out, other studies have shown that children with two moms tend to do better in many ways. By virtue of being raised by two mothers, my sons, for example, are more likely to be more confident, open-minded and affectionate, and less aggressive and susceptible to anxiety and depression than their friends who have a mom and dad. And as a recently separated queer mom, I?m happy to be living proof that lesbian parents seem to do better even when they split up, with the vast majority?more than 70 percent?going on to share custody after separating. ?I sometimes wonder,? muses Brita Lind, who co-parents three kids aged five, eight and 12 with her same-sex partner of 15 years, ?if everyone in the world had to go through as many steps and conscious choi...