By Rachel SnydeR
The Shorthorn staff
There is no significant difference in adopted children
raised by gay rather than straight parents, according to
a study by Scott Ryan, School of Social Work dean, and
three other social work educators.
The study asked...
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By Rachel SnydeR
The Shorthorn staff
There is no significant difference in adopted children
raised by gay rather than straight parents, according to
a study by Scott Ryan, School of Social Work dean, and
three other social work educators.
The study asked 155 homosexual couples and 1,229 heterosexual
couples about parent and child characteristics, family composition and
dynamics, the child’s pre-adoptive
history and current emotional and
behavioral functioning.
Josh Little, Gay-Straight Alliance
UTA chapter president, hopes this
study will help people see that gay
and lesbian parents are no different
than straight parents.
“As a gay man, I eventually want
to have kids and I obviously can’t
have kids naturally so having people
know that gays and lesbians can raise
a kid just as well would make things easier for me,” Little
said.
Criminal justice junior Leo Villalobos said he is
against gay adoptions because he doesn’t feel gay parents
can properly raise and teach a child.
Villalobos
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