Today, the March for Science in Washington, D.C. and hundreds of other global locations will encourage science that “upholds the common good” and allows evidence-based policymaking in the public interest. I thus thought this was a good time to look at how science has specifically helped LGBTQ parents and our children.
A new policy brief gives us a great summary of the state of social science research about lesbian and gay parents and our children.
A new study on the health of children with two moms is the first to use a nationally representative survey to compare only children whose parents have been in a continuous relationship. It concludes they’re doing just fine, thank you.
Sometimes as parents we do what we think is right for our kids only to find out that it’s not. That’s why a new compilation of research about the link between family acceptance and LGBTQ youth wellbeing is so important, especially for youth with anti-LGBTQ parents.
Sociologist Mark Regnerus’ study of gay and lesbian parents has been thoroughly discredited, but here’s a nice new piece of empirical evidence against it.
A new study has shown that many adopted children, with both same- and different-sex parents, experience stigmatization in preschool.
A new study of scientific literature concludes that a consensus has been reached about how well children do with same-sex parents. You can likely guess the answer—but some are rightly questioning whether it even matters.
Mark Regnerus must be having a bad week. The University of Texas at Austin sociologist’s study of same-sex parents was further discredited by a new study that uses the same data but comes to vastly different conclusions.
A new study purports to show that the children of same-sex parents have far greater emotional problems than those with different-sex parents–but the study comes from a professor who is a fellow of the Marriage and Religion Research Institute, a project of the Family Research Council, which has been designated an anti-LGBT hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
What if all the best scholarly research about children with lesbian or gay parents was gathered into a single online portal? The “What We Know” project has done just that, and will likely become a key reference for policymakers, journalists, researchers, and the public.
