“Gay Parent” Research Full of Holes

Beau Weston has been doing a review of essays published in The Meaning of Marriage. Today he is reviewing an essay by Maggie Gallagher. "Gay Parent" Research Full of Holes :

One big hole in the whole body of gay parenting studies is that none (or maybe one) uses a nationally representative sample – a norm in family studies otherwise. Another big hole is that most of the gay parenting studies have been done by psychologists looking at gender identity and self esteem – important questions, but not like the range of economic, medical, academic, criminal, attitudinal, and behavioral measures that social science routinely asks about families. The psychological studies have found that children of homosexual parents are no more likely to be homosexual themselves that are other kids. It is a long way from that finding, though, to a conclusion that children of homosexual parents are no different from other kids across the board.