Psychologist: Children Do Fine With Gay Parents (Prop 8 Trial)

[Kadie]

Jan 15, 2010 10:22 am US/Pacific
Psychologist: Children Do Fine With Gay Parents

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ― Children raised by same-sex parents are as well-adjusted and safe from abuse as kids who grow up with a mother and father, a Cambridge University psychologist testified Friday in a federal lawsuit challenging California's same-sex marriage ban.

"For a significant number of these children, their adjustment would be promoted were their parents able to get married," developmental psychologist Michael Lamb said while undercutting arguments made by sponsors of Proposition 8, the anti-gay marriage ballot measure passed in 2008.

Lamb said there was no evidence that children with gay parents were more likely to become gay themselves or become victims of sexual abuse or incest.

In addition, he said no evidence exists that gays or lesbians are more likely to sexually abuse children.

"We have a substantial body of evidence documenting that a child being raised by same-sex parents are just as likely to be well-adjusted as children raised by heterosexual parents," Lamb said.

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http://cbs13.com/local/proposition.8.psychologist.2.1424904.html


Prop 8 attorney said...
"You have even given money to PBS, so we can agree you are a committed liberal, right?" Thompson said.

[tanyev]

1. Oh noes! A PBS liberal!

:banghead:

[midnight]

2. Why doesn't anyone do a study to see if it is psychologically safe to live with

bankers.... They have knowingly as a collective organization economically terrorized this country....

I really can't believe this hoop jumping for the psychologically diminished folks that seem to think they own other people's lives.