Post article uncritically reports Focus on the Family canard

[ck4829]

Summary: In an article about the legal battle over adoptions by same-sex couples, The Denver Post uncritically reported the dubious claim by Focus on the Family that "research says children do best with a married mother and father." In fact, "ot a single study has found children of lesbian or gay parents to be disadvantaged ... relative to children of heterosexual parents," according to the American Psychological Association.

A November 16 Denver Post article about laws governing adoptions by same-sex couples uncritically reported the dubious contention of Focus on the Family spokeswoman Carrie Gordon Earll that "he social science research says children do best with a married mother and father."

In fact, as Colorado Media Matters has noted (here and here), the American Psychological Association (APA) concluded in a 2005 study of lesbian and gay parenting that "ot a single study has found children of lesbian or gay parents to be disadvantaged in any significant respect relative to children of heterosexual parents." The study also said that "the evidence to date suggests that home environments provided by lesbian and gay parents are as likely as those provided by heterosexual parents to support and enable children's psychosocial growth."

http://colorado.mediamatters.org/items/200611170001

[wellstone dem]

1. AS a single adoptive parent

of a 9 year old who spent almost 5 years in foster care, after being neglected and left for others to abuse by her heterosexual two-parent household, as a single adoptive parent of that same 9 year old, who is now in college, as the single adoptive parent of that 18 year old who sent me a card for adoption month saying "thank you for being so fricken' awesome," I refuse to stand by while others decide that one-size-fits-all is the right way to parent. I hate these people.