June 18, 2010

Lesbian Mothers Think Their Children Are All Above Average

By Janice Shaw Crouse
The National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study (NLLFS), just published in the online edition of the Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and funded by the Gill Foundation and the Lesbian Health Fund of the Gay Lesbian Medical Association, claims that children of lesbian mothers do better than children from a married-mom-and-dad family. The AAP is no stranger to controversy; this is the pediatrics group that recently capitulated to political correctness to advocate a "less extreme" form of female genital mutilation and then, when under pressure, reversed their recommendation. The NLLFS study professes to be a highly respected, peer-reviewed "longitudinal" type of study. Longitudinal studies, however, are conducted by researchers who objectively track subjects over a long period of time. In this study, the children were evaluated by their lesbian birth mothers -- hardly disinterested, dispassionate researchers.The hype for the study was remarkable,...(Read Full Article)