Gay couple = successful parents!

[Safe-Keeper]

Not at all surprising. New research shows that children raised by two lesbian (human) parents have significantly fewer psychological problems later in life than children raised by traditional families. Link in danish:http://ekstrabladet.dk/nyheder/samfu...cle1175582.ece

The children were followed from 1992-2008. In that period 5% of the children raised by heterosexual parents were treated for depression, anorexia or personality disorders. This only applied to <2% of the 387 children raised in lesbian families.

This is far from the first study to reach this conclusion. Others have concluded that children of two mothers are sexually abused less often (naturally, as there's no father involved) and fare better socially than kids of one father and one mother.

Of course, those against gay adoption skip the issue by citing studies from single-parent families, which is a different thing altogether.

 

[BTMO]

I don't get this bit:

Surely they were only interfering if they limited access to the females only - one of each gender per container. Why would providing females and therefore enabling them to have a choice be interfering in their behaviour? How do they know they weren't just stuck for choice? Are gay activists anti-choice? Did they wait to see if the males reacted to the females or not?

I have an image of some of these poor penguins standing around the day after the females were taken away staring at each other in major dejection, all hope of hetero action and raising a family of their own taken away from them and back with the lads again. And how did the females feel?

On the plus side - it is good to see them raising these young, particularly as it's an endangered species, but if they deprive potentially straight penguins of the ability to mate with females they are reducing the changes of the species survivial, surely?

Ahhhh... political correctness - pushing back at science once again...

(not you, Chillzero - the activists in Germany)

 

[Erigena]

Where did you find that information?

Second to last paragraph.

http://www.thelocal.de/society/20090603-19689.html

 

[chillzero]

Thanks - that's a different explanation from what was presented in the intial link, so I now withdraw my concerns on the matter.

 

[Erigena]

There is another possibility, maybe the Swedish female penguins didn't speak their language.

 

[the_smasher]

The zoo flew in four females in a bid to get the endangered birds to reproduce - but quickly abandoned the scheme after causing outrage among gay rights activists, who accused it of interfering in the animals' behaviour.

Isn't this how a zoo operates? I think keeping animals in an enclosure and controlling pretty much every aspect of their lives is "interfering in the animals' behaviour".

ETA: Seems like a silly statement from the activists (I'm not trying to make an anti-zoo comment in this post)

 

[Lucian]

If you ask me it is not like a heterosexual relationship at all.

"Since the chick arrived, they have been behaving just as you would expect a heterosexual couple to do. The two happy fathers spend their days attentively protecting, caring for and feeding their adopted offspring." is totally unnatural.

What it should say is that "Since the chick arrived, they have been behaving just as you would expect a heterosexual couple to do. One has spent their days attentively protecting, caring for and feeding their adopted offspring. The other has been out on a week long bender under the auspices of wetting the chick’s head."

Something like this, perhaps? http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0504210196apr21,0,3795259.story

 

[Brainster]

This is far from the first study to reach this conclusion. Others have concluded that children of two mothers are sexually abused less often (naturally, as there's no father involved) and fare better socially than kids of one father and one mother.

So I assume you do not support adoption of kids by gay male couples, since those kids would be sexually abused more often (naturally, as there are two fathers involved)?