Focus on evidence

Norman Wells  |  Reviews
Date posted:  1 Apr 2019
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Focus on evidence

SAME-SEX PARENTING RESEARCH:
A Critical Assessment
By Walter R. Schumm
Wilberforce. 306 pages. £14.00
ISBN 978 0 995 683 280

It is frequently presented as a settled fact that children raised by same-sex parents are just as healthy and well-adjusted as those raised by their biological mother and father, and any challenges to the claimed ‘consensus’ are considered an expression of hatred and bigotry.

Conscious of the extent to which scholarship on LGBT parenting has been heavily politicised, this thorough overview of the research evidence has been written to enable readers to determine the facts for themselves and to weigh how honestly the data has been handled by academics and others.

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