Monthly Archives: November 2009

And here’s to you, Mrs. and Mrs. Robinson

Well this is interesting.  A researcher in Britain, Stephen Scott says that his research shows that children of lesbian couples do better in life than the offspring of heterosexual couples.  Stephen Scott, who is the director of research at the National Academy for Parenting Practitioners presented his new research at the launch of Demos, a new London-based think tank.

Stephen Scott, director of research at the National Academy for Parenting Practitioners, has said his research shows children from lesbian couples do better in life than the offspring of heterosexual couples.

His controversial position draws backing from research that suggests children with two female parents are more aspirational than those with opposite-sex parents. Some studies also also shows children with lesbian parents are no more or less likely to have tendencies towards homosexuality.

Research at Birkbeck College, part of London University, and Clark University in Massachusetts suggests that same-sex couples make good parents because children cannot be conceived accidentally – parents must make an active decision to adopt or find a sperm donor.

According to the naysayer Jon Davies, chief executive of Families Need Fathers: “Since all children will have a biological father the child has a right to know who that is. In most families where there will be a mother and a father, a father is needed to support them. But it is the quality of parenting that counts in the end regardless of the parents.”

Um okay.  Way to contradict yourself in the same breath.  Do kids need a father or is it the quality of parenting that counts?

I say it’s the latter.  What do you say?