What is the influence of homosexual couples on kids?
Gay Couple with child (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) One new study by Prof. Loren Marks , takes a hard look at the scientific basis for the APA's repeated claims that science has proven that having gay parents makes "no difference" to a child . He concludes that the existing body of scientific research is amazingly weak: small samples, few comparison groups, few outcome measures studied, and, most importantly of all, the data is not nationally representative. It's not based on a random sample . From a scientific point of view that's a flaw that cannot be overcome. Without a random sample, you simply cannot say whether the children with gay parents you are studying are typical of all such children or self-selected outliers. That's why the second new study is so significant. The New Family Structures Survey is the first new survey of young adults that is large, nationally representative, and looked at more than 40 varied outcome measures, from the cha