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Below HuffPo asks, "What's your reaction?"
My reaction is "Well DUH! Get the primary perpetrators of incest, battery, and rape out of your home and guess what? Less domestic violence!"
And this isn't a slight against gay dads because the biggest perps, by far, are het dads and het men who stand in for them in those oh-so-hetero nuclear-reactive families.
Child Abuse Rate At Zero Percent In Lesbian Households, New Report Finds
First Posted: 11-10-10 01:30 PM | Updated: 11-10-10 01:59 PM
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Los Angeles, CA -- The Williams Institute, a research center on sexual orientation law and public policy at UCLA School of Law, has announced new findings from the U.S. National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study (NLLFS), the longest-running study ever conducted on American lesbian families (now in its 24th year). In an article published today in the Archives of Sexual Behavior, the 17-year-old daughters and sons of lesbian mothers were asked about sexual abuse, sexual orientation, and sexual behavior.
The paper found that none of the 78 NLLFS adolescents reports having ever been physically or sexually abused by a parent or other caregiver. This contrasts with 26 percent of American adolescents who report parent or caregiver physical abuse and 8.3 percent who report sexual abuse.
According to the authors, "the absence of child abuse in lesbian mother families is particularly noteworthy, because victimization of children is pervasive and its consequences can be devastating. To the extent that our findings are replicated by other researchers, these reports from adolescents with lesbian mothers have implications for healthcare professionals, policymakers, social service agencies, and child protection experts who seek family models in which violence does not occur."
On sexual orientation, 2.8 percent of the NLLFS adolescents identified as predominantly to exclusively homosexual.
The study was conducted by Nanette Gartrell, M.D., Henny Bos, Ph.D. (University of Amsterdam), and Naomi Goldberg, M.P.P. (Williams Institute). Principal investigator Nanette Gartrell, M.D., is a 2010 Williams Distinguished Scholar, an associate clinical professor of psychiatry at UCSF, and affiliated with the University of Amsterdam.____
Online: http://www.nllfs.org.
BUT WAIT!!! Those scowly, bitter het men will surely have a fit over this report. They'll argue something really stupid like "Well, how are they measuring abuse??" Or, "Just because they aren't abused doesn't mean they're HAPPY and HEALTHY!!!"
Read on, people. Read on...
From The Advocate, which is where the top image is from, we have this:
Posted on Advocate.com June 07, 2010
Study: Children of Lesbians Happy and Healthy
Advocate.com Editors
The largest study of its kind to date finds that the adolescent children of lesbian mothers rate above their peers in areas like academic competence, social behavior, and psychological adjustment.
The results of the U.S. National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study were published Monday in the journal Pediatrics, according to a news release from the Williams Institute at UCLA Law School.
“The NLLFS has been studying the same group of lesbian families since 1986; it is the only study to have followed the daughters and sons of lesbians from conception to adulthood,” said the news release. “The results released today are based on data gathered when the adolescents were 17 years old. The report also found no differences in the psychological adjustment of NLLFS adolescents who had been conceived by known and unknown donors, nor between those who reported homophobic stigmatization and those who did not.
“Although there are over 40 studies on young children with same-sex parents, data on adolescents reared by same-sex parents are very limited. The current NLLFS report shows that despite homophobic stigmatization, the adolescent daughters and sons of lesbians demonstrate more competencies and fewer behavioral problems than age-matched peers. These findings support the position statements of all major professional associations concerning the well-being of children growing up in lesbian and gay families.”
This should not come as a surprise.
ReplyDeleteWhite hetero males view their children and wives as property, they believe it is therefore their right to treat them anyway they wish which leads to all forms of abuse.
But just because WHM view their children as property, this does not mean everyone else does as well.
Despite fact these findings are from a long-term study, the misogynists (WHM) will still deny the evidence and claim women are equally if not more violent than poor WHM. There will be claims the study is too small; the methodology was faulty; the lesbians studied were not representative; the children of the lesbians were not representative; the moon is made of cheese despite what scientists claim.
ReplyDeleteOkay so the last phrase is made up but I have put this in to show WHM will never accept the truth because they must never be held accountable for responsible for committing/condoning centuries of male violence against women and children.
Then too we must not forget the world revolves around WHM and their needs, their desires, their demands and their pseudo rights. That is why male supremacist societies continue to rule.
Interesting to note that when white males are part of the equation you find oppression, violence, sexism, racism etc, but as soon as you remove white males suddenly these things start to disappear.
ReplyDeletetI is a pity that white males form part of and dominated all the important aspects of life