Matt C. Abbott
Homosexual parenting
By Matt C. Abbott
From the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute:
This, of course, should come as no surprise.
As the 2003 Vatican document "Considerations Regarding Proposals to Give Legal Recognition to Unions Between Homosexual Persons" states (click here to read the document in its entirety):
June 22, 2012
From the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute:
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A groundbreaking study reveals that adult children of homosexual and lesbian parents experience far greater negative social, economic and emotional outcomes than children raised within intact biological families.
The quality of University of Texas professor Mark Regnerus' study highlights the deficiencies of previous studies that homosexual advocates have relied on to grant same-sex couples a right to marry and adopt children.
'The empirical claim that no notable differences exist must go,' said Regnerus in his study published in Social Science Research.
Regnerus' comprehensive study examines nearly 3,000 adult children from eight different family structures and evaluates them within 40 social and emotional categories. The results reveal that children who remain with intact biological families were better educated, experienced greater mental and physical health, less drug experimentation, less criminal activity and reported overall higher levels of happiness....
This, of course, should come as no surprise.
As the 2003 Vatican document "Considerations Regarding Proposals to Give Legal Recognition to Unions Between Homosexual Persons" states (click here to read the document in its entirety):
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...As experience has shown, the absence of sexual complementarity in [homosexual unions] creates obstacles in the normal development of children who would be placed in the care of such persons. They would be deprived of the experience of either fatherhood or motherhood. Allowing children to be adopted by persons living in such unions would actually mean doing violence to these children, in the sense that their condition of dependency would be used to place them in an environment that is not conducive to their full human development....
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