Lesbian researcher claims ‘gay’ families ‘just as happy’:
(FPN) – A lesbian professor at the University of Virginia has co-authored “research” claiming teenagers whose parents are in lesbian relationships are just as happy and do just as well in school as teenagers whose parents are in heterosexual relationships. However, the activist nature of her overall career and personal life – not to mention the subjective nature of her “findings” – render her conclusions meaningless.
– Gay parenting “researcher” has a female “partner” and three children:
Patterson among homosexual activists demanding marriage benefits from UVA
(See next-to-last paragraph at the above link)
– Researcher “well-known” for studies of homosexuals with children:
UVA news release boasts professor’s “credentials”
– Objective conclusions from subjective research questioned:
FPN President calls the study “a pursuit of silliness.”
– Sidebar: Even Rosie knows kids need a mom and a dad:
Son of Rosie’s “partner” wants to have a daddy
When Propaganda Is Disguised As Research: The Research Of Charlotte J. Patterson
by Gerald Schoenewolf, Ph.D.
Published by the National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality
Dr. Gerald Schoenewolf of the Living Center in New York City found several problems with Patterson’s methods of “research.” Further, he points to blatant statistical exhaggerations made by Patterson in her quest to establish homosexual parenthood as commonplace. Here is an excerpt of the conclusion in Schoenewolf’s article:
The case of Charlotte J. Patterson is but one thread of a fabric that has seemingly enveloped scholarly research in general. Unfortunately, the trend toward propaganda disguised as research seems to be mushrooming in America, and nobody seems to care; either that, or they are afraid to care.
At last year’s conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis which I attended, Ethel Spector Person gave a twenty minute talk titled, “Borrowed Fantasy: How Mutual Influences among Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals and Straights Changed Women’s Lives and Psychoanalytic Theory.” The presentation was all about how Freud and other male psychoanalysts were misguided about gay and lesbian issues, among others, and how gays and lesbians have corrected Freud’s narrow theories and added positive contributions of their own. The presentation was backed up not so much by credible research but by a series of testimonials. There was an open microphone at the end of the discussion, but nobody questioned Dr. Person about her research. Nor did I.
In analyzing my response and that of others, I had two thoughts. We have all been conditioned (brainwashed) to think that only gays and lesbians can understand and hence be experts on gay and lesbian issues. In addition, we have all been conditioned (brainwashed) to be afraid to oppose anything that a gay or lesbian spokesperson asserts out of a fear of being rebuked as homophobic. Maybe this is why gays and lesbians have a stranglehold on the American Psychological Association.
Review the entire article on the NARTH website: http://www.narth.com/docs/patterson.html
The following research from Family Research Council calls into question the ability of the aforementioned and similar studies to provide credible data:
Homosexual Parenting: Placing Children at Risk
by: Timothy J. Dailey, Ph. D.
Family Research Council
A number of studies in recent years have purported to show that children raised in gay and lesbian households fare no worse than those reared in traditional families. Yet much of that research fails to meet acceptable standards for psychological research; it is compromised by methodological flaws and driven by political agendas instead of an objective search for truth. In addition, openly lesbian researchers sometimes conduct research with an interest in portraying homosexual parenting in a positive light. The deficiencies of studies on homosexual parenting include reliance upon an inadequate sample size, lack of random sampling, lack of anonymity of research participants, and self-presentation bias.
The presence of methodological defects–a mark of substandard research–would be cause for rejection of research conducted in virtually any other subject area. The overlooking of such deficiencies in research papers on homosexual failures can be attributed to the “politically correct” determination within those in the social science professions to “prove” that homosexual households are no different than traditional families.
However, no amount of scholarly legerdemain contained in an accumulation of flawed studies can obscure the well-established and growing body of evidence showing that both mothers and fathers provide unique and irreplaceable contributions to the raising of children. Children raised in traditional families by a mother and father are happier, healthier, and more successful than children raised in non-traditional environments.
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Review the entire essay on the FRC website:
Family Research Council analyzes “gay parent” studies”