That being said, I will need to spend less time on the computer.
http://www.apa.org/pi/lgbt/resources/parenting.aspx
Good luck with that! Here is a lot to read.
While you read this I will look for the links you asked for.
And also, what is it that makes these things so outright erroneous? Care to give an explanation of the errors?
"A new study2 by Mark Regnerus has selected 3,000 study participants randomly by telephone in order to reduce sampling bias."
He chose them randomly and he reduced sampling bias.
But... at the same time he has a lot uf unknown factors that he can't take into account when trying to compare certain groups. Those unknown factors can influence some of the areas he is trying to measure and then compare.
I will give a couple of examples:
1) Let's say you call kid number 1: he is in a bad mood that day. His answers are not relevant.
2) Kid number 2 and 3: one is white, one is black. Unfortunately, in the US, black people encounter higher numbers in terms of jail time. You can't compare them in this case.
3) Kid number 4: he comes from a Latino family. You can't compare him with other gay kids that aren't Latino. He has different (sub)cultural values. So he evaluates his parents differently.
4) Question: Can kids evaluate their parents objectively?
...... etc etc
Secondly, a lifestyle of homosexuality is, by objective moral standards, wrong. Also, no one is saying that merely being in a family of homosexuals is immoral. Rather, it's stating that moral standards are more "relaxed" in such environments, which leads to further irresponsibility and immoral conduct.
Don't want to turn this into another OM discussion. Once you agree that OM exists and it exists outside of our will and grasp, then you can't say that gay families have more relaxed moral standards. A standard already exists and it is called OM.
What you can say though is that kids in gay families are less obedient of God's law. But then again, if they choose to bend rules, then they live by their own subjective moral standard and the OM doesn't apply.
I guess this is my biggest question about OM: what is the point of it? Nobody in the world lives by such rules. Everybody bends it according to certain needs and preferences.
P.S.: This is one of the amuzing parts of the study from the main website: "For example, only 61% of children of lesbian mothers reported themselves to be "entirely heterosexual" compared to 90% from IBF.2 Likewise, only 71% of children of gay fathers reported themselves to be "entirely heterosexual."2
This data shows that nurture has a large effect on sexual preference and discredits the claim that people are born gay."
This data shows that nurture has a large effect on sexual preference?
This data shows that kids from heterosexual families are LIARS. Of course they won't admit they have gay interests. Why would they when they see all this hate against homosexuals? They are a bunch of liars and also they prove to be socially intelligent and recognize the danger of admitting certain biased subjects.