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Are Two Fathers Just As Good?(Review)
Are Two Fathers Just As Good? Robert Lerner and Althea Nagai, No Basis: What The Studies Don't Tell Us About Same-Sex Parenting. Marriage Law Project, Ethics and Public Policy Center, 1015 Fifteenth Street N.W. #900, Washington, D.C. 20005.
Social scientists Lerner and Nagai examined 49 studies supposedly showing that same-sex parenting didn't harm children and concluded that nearly all were junk science which "should form no basis for public policy recommendations." Among the failings of these studies:
* Volunteer samples. Good social science proceeds from comparing key in two different random population samples. But 48 of the 49 studies surveyed were composed of samples in which the participants volunteered. Volunteers are not representative of general populations, because people who volunteer tend to be more enthusiastic about the activity they're being polled about than those who are randomly selected. This is particularly true of sexuality studies.
* Bad design. Only 28 of the 49 studies directly compared heterosexual and homosexual couples. In most of these cases, the ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Are Two Fathers Just As Good?(Review)