A “reality check” for the Regnerus study on gay parenting.
Was the Regnerus Study on Gay Parenting Defective? by Walter R. Schumm In the July issue of the scholarly journal Social Science Research (SSR), Professor Mark Regnerus (pictured) published an article detailing initial results from his New Family Structures Study.
Oxford, June 10, 2012 - Despite considerable research showing that children of same-sex parents fare just as well as children with heterosexual parents, two papers - a review of existing studies and a new study - published today in Elsevier’s Social Science Research, find insufficient data to draw any definitive conclusions. The review by Dr. Loren Marks from Louisiana State University finds.
Good Mark Regnerus’s “family structure” study has been a hot topic since it was released in June, namely because every single anti-gay conservative organization has cited it as evidence that same-sex couples are inferior parents. An internal audit by the academic journal that originally published it found the conclusions to be “bullshit” because Regnerus’s criteria was whether a.
In a historic study of children raised by homosexual parents, sociologist Mark Regnerus of the University of Texas at Austin has overturned the conventional academic wisdom that such children suffer no disadvantages when compared to children raised by their married mother and father.
In contrast to Regnerus, previous studies compared children of homosexual parents to children of stepfamilies and single parents. Regnerus also relies solely on information directly from adult children rather than opinions from their parents. A second new study confirms the studies touted by the APA are unreliable. Loren Marks, an associate.
New York Magazine reports that a study of 236 children of gay parents done in 2012 by University of Texas sociologist Mark Regnerus ticked off gay marriage supporters when it concluded.
The often-cited Regnerus study analysed survey data from adults aged 18-39 years and concluded that those with a gay or lesbian parent fared worse on a range of social, emotional and relational.