A new study in Spain says that gay parents are “excellent” at raising healthy, well-adjusted children. The study assessed how children fared in homes with same-sex parents, and found that both young children and adolescents benefited from the attention they received by two engaged, caring parents of the same gender, reported news site Typically Spanish on March 19.
The results on same-sex parenting were part of a larger study examining “new families,” or ways in which the “traditional” family structure has changed now that more women are entering the work force. The study surveyed 214 families of various types, including families with married parents of opposite genders, same-sex parents, single parents, and families in which the parents had separated but then reunited.
Though reputable research has been done in the United States and elsewhere on the subject of same-sex parenting, this is the first time a study of this sort has been conducted in Spain. The research on same-sex families has long shown that children with two parents of the same gender do just as well as children from homes headed by opposite-sex parents.
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