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- From: cfthb@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (Howard Black)
- Subject: Re: Education Regarding Alternative Family Units (Re: The Analogy Betwixt Gays & Blacks (Re: Children in Same-gender Families))
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.160631.17308@ux1.cts.eiu.edu>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 16:06:31 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec28.150608.28353@galileo.physics.arizona.edu> krueger@galileo.physics.arizona.edu (Ted Krueger) writes:
- >
- >... the sexual preference displayed by parents in the home has an
- >enormous effect on the sexual preference of children in the home...to the
- >extent that, children raised in a homosexual-parent home will be extremely
- >likely to be homosexual. Anyone have any stats? Any examples of straight
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- As another poster said, and I must have missed your response: why,
- then, are 10% of children raised virtually exclusively in het homes gay?
-
- >children coming from a home where the parent(s) had exhibited homosexual
- >behavior since the child was very young?
-
- Sure. As reported in the Advocate, a study from the Univ. of Virginia
- looked at a large number of same-sex-parents families and determined that
- there was no correlation between kids raised in lesbigay vs. het homes with
- regard to sexual orientation or social skill development.
-
- So...you can rest easy now.
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- Howard Black cfthb@ux1.cts.eiu.edu
- Department of Chemistry Eastern Illinois Univ.
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