In your face, homophobes. A study requested by the Canadian Justice Department found that children of same-sex parents were at least as well-adjusted as children of heterosexual parents. The study reviewed all the empirical literature on the subject, and concluded that the majority of researchers discovered at least comparable levels of social competence in kids from gay and straight families. Oh, except a few studies did find that kids with lesbian parents have higher levels of social competence than kids with different-sex parents. Kind of makes you think that if we want to improve the prospects for our nation's children, we ought to do more to prevent discrimination against gay parents in adoption and foster parenting...
Interestingly, this study was concluded a while back, but when it was commissioned in 2003, the Canadian government was more liberal. When the conservative government came to power in 2006, they might not have wanted their own Justice Department concluding that gay parents do at least as good a job as breeders, if not better. At least that's the opinion of the study's author, who only got this work out into the world by making a request through the Access to Information Act.
I'm really no expert on Canadian politics, but I will say: boy, doesn't it suck when you keep opposing gay marriage, and then it turns out kids from gay families are doing quite well? Why, it's almost as though there's nothing wrong with homosexuality. And remember, these kids are doing well despite the fact that they may have to contend with homophobia. It also sounds like the Canadian government prefers to keep anything that contradicts their ideological stance under wraps. Lemme tell you, we here in the States know nothing about that. As one lesbian mom interviewed for the story said, "I think if we were living in the United States, [the study] would not have even been done." Our government knows the best way to avoid embarrassing research is not to commission it in the first place.
