ARE THE KIDS OK? MEDICAL JOURNAL OF AUSTRALIA PUBLISHES BIASED PIECE
The Medical Journal of Australia recently published an article claiming research shows that children of LGBT parents are as successful emotionally, socially, and educationally as their peers raised by heterosexual parents. The timing is essential; having scientific data to back up one side or the other had the potential to sway the vote in the postal survey. The article titled, “The kids are OK: it is discrimination, not same-sex parents, that harms children” was widely shared online. Thirteen authors from Melbourne’s Murdoch Children’s Research Institute demonstrated a “consensus of the peer-reviewed research,” and yet the data was skewed in favour of the LGBT community. The article states : Some research has indicated that children with same-sex parents do better than other children. In addition to equivalent social and educational outcomes, these studies conclude that children raised by same-sex couples show better psychological adjustment, and greater open-mindedness towards sex