14 DAY TRIAL // Homosexuality is blamed in the western society, a child being raised by two homosexual parents being regarded as an even more unnatural situation.
There are great concerns that the child would adopt the sexuality of his/her family, even if many researches point to the fact that homosexuality seems to be innate, due to hereditary factors or womb hormonal accidents.
A new research conducted at the Canadian Justice Department reveals that parenting by same-sex families is just as good, if not a little bit better, for children when compared with heterosexual families.
The academic research was led by Professor Paul Hastings at Concordia University. Hastings's team reached the study's conclusion after analyzing existent researches about the impact of growing in different family types on children.
The strongest conclusion that most researches have drawn is that children grown by couple made of two mothers or a mother and father have the same levels and qualities of social competence. "A few studies suggest that children with two lesbian mothers may have marginally better social competence than children in 'traditional nuclear' families, even fewer studies show the opposite, and most studies fail to find any differences," concluded the research, based on roughly 240 studies on parenting and children's development.
The largest part of the existent researches on gay parents are made on lesbian mothers, actually shows what other studies have already revealed: namely that women generally spend more time with their children than men do. "But there is still too little research, especially about gay male parents, to reach any final conclusions", warned the researchers.
"Individuals are individuals and on a case-by-case basis, you can't make that generalization. However, women generally -- certainly when I was being raised -- are more nurturing ... so yes, overall, you can make a case that two mothers are more nurturing than a more traditional male-female set-up where one parent is working while the mother is at home and raising children," said Virginia West, who is raising a two-year-old boy, with her partner, Cheryl Reid, in Toronto.