{"id":30643,"date":"2013-01-23T22:16:46","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T03:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=30643"},"modified":"2013-01-23T22:16:46","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T03:16:46","slug":"study-says-kids-with-gay-parents-fare-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/01\/study-says-kids-with-gay-parents-fare-worse","title":{"rendered":"Study Says Kids With Gay Parents Fare Worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>Dear Editor,<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I am disappointed that homosexual partners Elton John and David Furnish have adopted another child via a surrogate mother.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-30644\" title=\"gay-parents\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/gay-parents.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/gay-parents.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/gay-parents-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Last June, the American scientific magazine \u201cSocial Science Research\u201d, the most prestigious peer reviewed publication of its kind, published two new innovative and definitive studies on children raised by same-sex couples. From the studies it emerged that 12% of children brought up by same-sex couples contemplate suicide (against 5% of children with heterosexual parents), they are more inclined to be unfaithful (40% against 13%), they are unemployed more often (28% against 8%) and they are more likely to visit a psychotherapist (19% against 8%).<\/p>\n<p>They are also more often under social service surveillance compared to peers who are raised by heterosexual couples. In 40% of cases they will catch a sexually transmitted disease at some point (against 8% of peers raised by heterosexual couples) and they are generally less healthy, poorer and more likely to smoke and commit criminal offences.<\/p>\n<p>The few studies published so far that support the theory that there is no difference between children brought up in heterosexual and homosexual families are &#8211; unlike the new studies &#8211; based on non-random, non-representative data often employing small samples that do not allow for generalization to the larger population of gay and lesbian families.<\/p>\n<p>It is time we realize that the rights of children trump the right to children.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>Paul Kokoski<\/em> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Studies indicate higher percentages of children brought up by same-sex parents contemplate suicide, will be unfaithful, are unemployed and are more likely to visit a psychotherapist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[334,311,323],"class_list":["post-30643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-children","tag-family","tag-homosexuality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}