The National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study
(NLLFS)
study quoted in the story below has an agenda
and we have had some Female Chauvinist Pigs, like Pamela Paul, doing
articles in magazines like Atlantic describing the maternal superiority of
Lesbians over - get this - heterosexual couples. So they are not only
better than normal moms, who are also women but the underlying theme
is dads are not necessary. If they said that about a racial minority
they would be castigated by the media rather than the useful idiots of
the MSM parroting the studies results as though it was factual. Studies show that
as many as a third or more of lesbians have been victims of sexual
assault, including rape, or coercion at the hands of another woman.
Others show the rate of abusiveness between same sex females cohabiting
is higher than heterosexual DV. Additionally, single moms are the most likely to kill or
abuse their children and Lesbians see more frequent breakups and they
are less stable which is mentioned in the study. Paul, the maternal
supremacist, fails to mention this.
This study conducted in Bejing isn't directly
relevant but it is instructive in what is happening in Communist China,
"The survey, funded by the Anti-Domestic Violence Network of the China
Law Society (ADVN), an NGO founded in 2000 to protect women's rights,
found 75 percent of lesbian and bisexual women in Beijing were victims
of domestic violence."
In this report a psychology professor Carolyn West "found
estimates of lesbian domestic abuse ranging anywhere from 8.5 to 73
percent but says that in most studies 30 to 40 percent of lesbians
reported they'd been in a violent relationship. The National Coalition
of Anti-Violence Programs, a gay and lesbian advocacy group, estimates
based on the sparse research available that domestic violence occurs
in 25 to 33 percent of same-sex couples."
Needless to say the NLLFS study is not
to be taken seriously and those authors who are touting it have a clear
agenda. Female superiority in the care of children and dads are
unnecessary. What does that say about their cousins Gay men raising
children. Are they twice as unnecessary. These supremacists do no
favours to their very small same sex, relative to normal couples,
community.
A very in depth study goes into
great detail about homosexual marriages
Some snippets:
Gay
and lesbian vs. other opposite-sex intimate partner relationships
Surveys
conducted by the U.S. Department of Justice confirm that homosexual
and lesbian relationships had a far greater incidence of domestic
partner violence than opposite-sex relationships including cohabitation
or marriage.
· The National Violence against Women
Survey, sponsored by the National Institute of Justice, found that
"same-sex cohabitants reported significantly more intimate partner
violence than did opposite-sex cohabitants. Thirty-nine percent of the
same-sex cohabitants reported being raped, physically assaulted, and/or
stalked by a marital/cohabitating partner at some time in their
lifetimes, compared to 21.7 percent of the opposite-sex cohabitants.
Among men, the comparable figures are 23.1 percent and 7.4 percent."
Source:
"Extent, Nature, and Consequences of Intimate Partner Violence," U.S.
Department of Justice: Office of Justice Programs, 30.
The study
further charts specic rates of DV compared to married men/women compared
to homosexuals.
Homosexual
and Lesbian Couples vs. Married Couples
When homosexual and
lesbian relationships are directly compared with married couples, the
difference in the domestic partner violence is pronounced:
Sources: "Extent, Nature,
and Consequences of Intimate Partner Violence," U.S. Department of
Justice: Office of Justice Programs: 30; "Intimate Partner
Violence," Bureau of Justice Statistics Special Report:11.
And they
posit the following:
A POLITICAL AGENDA: REDEFINING
MARRIAGE
By their own
admission, gay activists are not simply interested in making it
possible for homosexuals and lesbians to partake of conventional
married life. Rather, they aim to change the essential character of
marriage, removing precisely the aspects of fidelity and chastity that
promote stability in the relationship and the home.MJM
Janice Shaw Crouse
Saturday,
June 19, 2010
The National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study (NLLFS)
just
published in the online edition of the
Journal of the
American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and funded by the Gill
Foundation and the Lesbian Health Fund of the Gay Lesbian Medical
Association, claims that children of lesbian mothers do better than
children from a married-mom-and-dad family. The AAP is no stranger to
controversy; they are the pediatrics group that recently capitulated to
political-correctness to
advocate
a “less extreme” form of female genital mutilation and then, when
under pressure,
reversed
their recommendation. The NLLFS study professes to be a highly
respected, peer-reviewed “longitudinal” type of study. Longitudinal
studies, however, are conducted by researchers who
objectively
track subjects over a long period of time. In this study, the children
were evaluated by their lesbian birth mothers — hardly disinterested,
dispassionate researchers.
The hype for the study was
remarkable, with over 116 newspaper headlines blaring the news:
“Children of lesbian couples do well.” Few of the articles questioned
the fact that the children’s mothers were reporting on their “little
darling’s” well-being, social functioning, behavior, and achievements;
nor did publications usually note the lack of cross-checking with
objective outcomes. Not mentioned, as well, is that over half of the
original lesbian-couple participants in the study were separated by the
time their children were age six (mean age), though such family
upheaval is typically quite difficult for children. Nor did the
laudatory reports question the fact that the 78 children in the study
contributed their own assessments about their lives and well-being.
Without comparing these personal observations with objective outcomes
(teacher/counselor evaluations, school report cards, etc.) the study is
highly unreliable.
The study is neither objective nor
comprehensive. There are three major problems with the “study”:
1) The “research” consists of the
mothers’ opinions about their children;
2) Only 77 lesbian couples
participated in the “study,” and they were not typical parents in other
regards. An
earlier
NLLFS report described the sample population as Caucasian (93
percent), predominantly college educated (67 percent), mostly middle
and upper class (82 percent), professional or managers (85 percent) and
a median household income of $85,000; and,
3) the study did not consist of a
random sample — all the participants were
volunteers
— recruited via posted announcements in women’s bookstores, at lesbian
events, and in lesbian newspapers in three major metropolitan areas
(Boston, Washington, D.C., and San Francisco)
The personal relationships and
professional affiliations of the authors engender even more questions
about the study’s reliability. Dr. Nanette Gartrell of the University
of California, San Francisco, is “married” to Dee Moshbacker, Ph.D., a
psychiatrist and lesbian activist/filmmaker. She lamented that “there
are so many places in the United States where same-sex couples are not
allowed to adopt or foster children in need.”
Yet, she
claims, “There is not a single study that has shown there are any
problems in terms of psychological adjustment” [of the children in
lesbian couple households]. The other author, Dr. Henny M.W. Bos, is
an assistant professor in Amsterdam whose research focuses on “child
rearing and child development in non traditional families, such as
planned lesbian families, gay father families and patchwork families.”
The two authors send a message that children of lesbians
fare better than the children of a married mom and dad. They state at
the outset, “Despite more than three decades of cross-sectional
research demonstrating that the psychological adjustment of children is
unrelated to their parents’ sexual orientation, the legitimacy of
lesbian and gay biological, foster, and adoptive parenting is still
under scrutiny.” A close reading of the Pediatrics article
reveals a broader agenda promoting donor insemination, praising female
parenting in contrast to having a father present, and, typically,
condemning straight society as homophobic — a disproportionate amount
of attention is given to descriptions of the children’s negative
experiences related to their parents’ sexual preference (but the
harassment didn’t affect their well-being, you understand).
Some critics are concerned
that the Gartrell/Bos study will be used, not to praise lesbian
couples, but to question the fitness of fathers. Indeed, Gartrell/Bos
note, “Lesbian mothers use less corporal punishment and less power
assertion than heterosexual fathers.” The authors assert the benefits
of a feminine environment, “Growing up in households with less power
assertion and more parental involvement has been shown to be associated
with healthier psychological adjustment.”
Still other critics pointed out the weaknesses in the
control group — the 93 children who were used for comparison. They
described the control group as “very different in race composition,
socio-economic status of participants, and region of the country.”
They also noted that there are many more minorities and Southern
children in the control group than in the NLLFS study group. These
critics questioned the editorial board and peer reviewers “who did not
pay attention to such an obvious deficiency in the study.”
Others questioned the “enormous political incentive” for
lesbian mothers to volunteer their participation. There can be no
doubt as to the “political incentive” of the “research.” The authors
make their purpose plain by concluding, “This study has implications
for the clinical care of lesbian families, for the expert testimony
provided by pediatricians on lesbian mother custody, and for public
policies concerning same-sex parenting.”
In spite of the weaknesses in the
methodology, the authors conclude with a vast generalization, “The NLLFS
adolescents are well-adjusted, demonstrating more competencies and
fewer behavioral problems than their peers in the normative American
population.”
Clearly, these lesbian mothers are from
Lake Wobegon, where all the children are above average.
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