Two Parents = Happy Children
The headline is extremely deceptive. This is what the post says:
In the latest Mapping America, the General Social Survey shows that adults who lived with both biological parents as adolescents are more likely to be very happy than those who did not.
So the truth is that the study says children living with their biological parents are most likely to be happy, not necessarily two parents in general.
This is important because when organizations like FRC speak against gay adoption they use talking points like "studies show that children do better in a home with a mother and father."
How much do you want a bet that this "study" will be used against gay adoption even though it has absolutely nothing to do with children in foster care?
And it gets better. The Mapping America study was done by Patrick F. Fagan, Ph.D. & Althea Nagai, Ph.D.
I've talked about Althea Nagai before and how she and her husband "conducts" studies for right wing groups, including an interesting one on race. The Mapping America webpage says that she is a visiting fellow at the Family Research Council
Fagan, according to the Mapping America webpage is senior fellow and director of the Center for Family and Religion at Family Research Council.
Both facts are conveniently absent from the FRC blog posting.
My guess is that when and if FRC tries to manipulate this study, that lovely fact about the authors' lack of objectivity will continue to be conveniently not mentioned.
That drives me nutty. Children who are up for adoption are being stolen from a loving, two parent home. At best, they are being given up by women who feel, for whatever reason, that they cannot raise the children. In general, if they are in the foster system, they're home life, with their biological parents, was hell.
ReplyDeleteI know people who spent their childhoods bounced around the foster care system. Every single one of them would have been thrilled to be adopted by a gay couple.