Gay

1. I read the full Paul Sullins study called "Invisible Victims: Delayed Onset Depression among Adults with Same-Sex Parents. " Immediately I notice Paul Sullins is a sociology professor at Catholic University of America. A potentially biased organization. Moving on, The abstract notes that the findings should be taken cautiously. This is because in their sample of same-sex children abuse was higher than expected. Now the real damning part. The sample size for opposite-sex marriages was 20, 000+ reduced to around 8, 000. The sample size for same-sex couples was 20. You can find this under "Data and Methods. " This is not how real science is done. The entire pool of same-sex couples was cherry picked and extremely, I can't say this with enough emphasis, EXTREMELY small to be attempting to make generalized claims. Do you think same-sex couples with children are so rare to where we can easily follow 20k opposite sex couples but only 20 same-sex? No. This is not a legitimate source of scientific fact. In fact, The entire study has been condemned by the people who published it for the same reasons. If you had read the article even a little you would have seen this. Please don't accept random website's interpretations. Read the actual study. Now, If those findings were accurate they would be corroborated with other scientific studies. They are not. If this was your only source of information for your reasoning behind why same-sex couples having children or adopting children is worse than opposite-sex pairs then I believe it has been sufficiently quashed for any reasonable individual. If you're looking for the pro-gay stance on this it would roughly translate as follows: 1. There are no lessons only a female or only a male parent can teach. Even if there were you would not use this argument to forbid single parents from raising children. 2. Having two male or two female parents in sexual relationships would be no different than having two male parents who were not gay or two female parents who were not gay. 3. You wouldn't say that two male parents or two female parents who aren't gay couldn't raise a child. 4. As such, There's no grounds to stop same-sex couples from having children. It should be noted that statistics show that there are many ways same-sex couples are better for children. They are more likely to stay together than opposite-sex parents. Their children tend to be more open minded and accepting of others. My sources are: 1. The national institute of health (US) 2. Livescience article on some ways gay parents are superior 3. American Academy of Pediatrics 4. American Medical Association 5. American Psych Association et cetera. Easiest way to go about it is to just look up LGBT parenting on wikipedia and use sources from there. As my opponent has produced no other new arguments and all of his sources have been irreparably squashed by my eyes, I leave it to you, The readers to judge. I have provided the metrics by which my opponent could prove his point and he has come up wanting. My initial opinion, Supported by all the statistics I can find from reputable sources state that there is negligible difference when the pros and the cons are all said and done. At worst, Same-sex couples bring up children with similar results to opposite-gendered couples. May your thoughts be clear, -Thoht