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Originally Posted by Azzan
He isn't the only one.
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I'm sorry, Azzan...and Timmy. I can only pray my children never face this kind of personal angst.
Assuming the stats are true, (which I think could be a whole new thread) I think there is room for the idea that the homosexual community is associated with other sexual freedoms, promiscuity and in some cases, nefarious factions of society. The first and third stats could be related to those possibilities. Another consideration is that molestation and abuse are higher in adoptive homes and homes with step-parents than in biological homes, and adoption (or having at least one step-parent) is common in gay families. It would be interesting to compare children in gay-adoptive homes to children in straight-adoptive homes. Likewise, we could compare the abuse of children by a step-parent to abuse of children by a gay step-parent. I have a feeling the statistics would be similar.
As for the second stat, I find the phrasing to be suspiciously vague.
"Rape is rampant: 31 percent of children raised by a lesbian mother and 25 percent raised by a homosexual man report that they were forced to have sex against their will, compared to 8 percent from intact families."
Note that it doesn't say "forced to have sex against their will
with a parent." This supports the idea that it is more dangerous for a child to have a non-parent in the home.
All of these factors combined, I can see how gay homes could be more high-risk for children, but not simply because the parent is gay. It has more to do with other aspects of the environment, IMO.