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Originally Posted by Luc
there is insufficient research to prove my point. we won't know the affect gay parents had on young adopted kids until those kids start getting married.
this means anywhere from 15-20 years, and I seriously doubt that there is a study that closely monitored the behavioral traits of kids through that long of a period in gay marriages. if there is, point me to one and wisen me up (and don't use that crap above).
also, i didn't say ALL kids adopted by gay parents will turn gay, however i do believe that they are a lot more likely to do so because they'll think its normal.
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There is decades of research on how gay parents will affect their children's sexual orientation. I've never heard of any study that support your ideas.
The bulk of evidence to date indicates that children raised by gay and lesbian parents are no more likely to become homosexual than children raised by heterosexuals. As one researcher put it, "If heterosexual parenting is insufficient to ensure that children will also be heterosexual, then there is no reason to conclude that children of homosexuals also will be gay". 11
Studies asking the children of gay fathers to express their sexual orientation showed the majority of children to be heterosexual, with the proportion of gay offspring similar to that of a random sample of the population. An assessment of more than 300 children born to gay or lesbian parents in 12 different samples shows no evidence of "significant disturbances of any kind in the development of sexual identity among these individuals". 12
http://naic.acf.hhs.gov/pubs/f_gay/f_gayb.cfm
http://www.openadopt.org/adoptive_parents/gl-facts.html