Скачать или смотреть Legalise Gay Marriage - An Open Letter to Cardinal Keith O'Brien

'We cannot afford to indulge this madness' by Keith O'Brien - The Telegraph article available here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/91...

Sign the petition for equal marriage rights at The Coalition for Equal Marriage
http://www.c4em.org.uk/

And if you do care about marriage equality, please participate in the public consultation that has recently been launched.
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/publicat...
Go down to 'Respond online' and click the link.

= GAY PARENTING STUDIES =

Farr, R. H et al. 2010 'Parenting and Child Development in Adoptive Families: Does Parental Sexual Orientation Matter?' APPLIED DEVELOPMENTAL SCIENCE, 14(3), 164--178, 201

Excerpts:

"Our findings are also at odds with the notion that only heterosexual adults make capable parents and that lesbian and gay parents are somehow ineffective or harmful."

"From a policy perspective, our results provide no justification for denying lesbian and gay adults from adopting children (Wald, 2006). Indeed, barring adoptions to prospective lesbian and gay parents seems likely to produce a number of undesirable outcomes."

Full Text PDF available here:
http://people.virginia.edu/~cjp/artic...

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Gartrelle, N. et al. 2010 'US National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study: Psychological Adjustment of 17-Year-Old Adolescents' Official Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics DOI: 10.1542/peds.2009-3153

Excerpts:

"Results: According to their mothers' reports, the 17-year-old daughters and sons of lesbian mothers were rated significantly higher in social, school/academic, and total competence and significantly lower in social problems, rule-breaking, aggressive, and externalizing problem behavior than their age-matched counterparts in Achenbach's normative sample of American youth."

"Conclusions: Adolescents who have been reared in lesbian-mother families since birth demonstrate healthy psychological adjustment."

Full Text PDF available here:
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org...

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A lot more information on gay parenting and how it does or does not affect children
http://www.religioustolerance.org/hom...