New research reveals children of same-sex couples fare as well as or better than their peers raised by heterosexual couples.
The report, titled “Family outcome disparities between sexual minority and heterosexual families,” was published in the BMJ Global Health journal. The research included 34 studies across countries where same-sex relationships are legal. The research is a collaboration between the Duke University School of Nursing in North Carolina and the School of Nursing at Guangxi Medical University in China.
The authors of the research say, “Most of the family outcomes are similar between sexual minority and heterosexual families, and sexual minority families have even better outcomes in some domains.”
Positive disparities for children of same-sex couples included better psychological adjustment, especially for children around pre-school ages, and better relationships with their parents than children raised by traditional heterosexual couples.
For preschool-age children, sexual minority parents reported significantly fewer psychological problems than heterosexual parents.
On the topic of parent-child relationships, the authors examined six studies and found statistically significant effects indicating that sexual minority parent groups showed higher levels of parent–child relationship quality, such as higher levels of warmth, greater amounts of interaction, and more supportive behavior, when compared with the heterosexual parent groups.
New Study LGBTQ+ Parents Raise Better Adjusted Children
- Dino Mosquera
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