children who grow up in the US with same-sex parents develop in the school, in the meantime, continuous as well as children with mixed-gender parents. The findings of a study conducted by Diederik Boertien (Center for Demographic Studies, Barcelona) and Fabrizio Bernardi (European University Institute, San Domenico), which is now published in the scientific journal “Demography”.
ten years ago, children with same-sex parents had a slightly higher probability to have in school a year than children with mixed-gender parents, the researchers report: 5.1 per cent compared to three per cent. This difference was no longer recognize since years but. Apparently, the social pressure due to discrimination that weighed upon the parents and their children, and led to a part of poor school performance, decreased. Therefore, the school performance of children with same-sex parents would have been aligned on those of children in mixed-sex parental homes.
the criterion for failure: the Non-transfer
The study is the largest sample of the underlying on the basis of which the subject was previously examined, write Boertien and Bernardi. They evaluated data from the American Community Survey (ACS) from the years between 2008 and 2015, with a total of more than 1.9 million students between the ages of eight and sixteen years. Of these, 8000 – 0.39 per cent lived in a household with a parent in a same-sex relationship. As a criterion for failure in school, the researchers evaluated if the students had not been added.
in 2008, children growing up with same-sex parents had a higher risk to be in school, not offset. Visible the difference was, however, already at that time, only in the case of such pupils, in regions with discriminatory legislation, and a in the population, particularly the widespread rejection of Homosexuals growing up. Already in the year 2010, there is no significant statistical difference between the academic performance of children with homosexual parents to those with heterosexual parents.
discrimination of homosexual parents can have an impact
discrimination can impact you in different ways the relationship of homosexual parents and their children, and according to the statistics on school performance are reflected, explain the researchers. So many of the parents had lived previously in a heterosexual relationship, and your children are so have been more often impacted by separation than other children – which can affect school performance.
Also studies show that same-sex suffer couples because of the lack of social recognition is more likely to be depressed than opposite-sex couples, which may hamper the school success of their children also, as Boertien and Bernardi reports. Further studies showed that children who were bullied because of their lesbian parents in school, more likely to have a low self-esteem and behave erratically.
children grow increasingly from the beginning with same-sex parents
In the Wake of rapidly increasing social acceptance and the availability of reproductive technologies, children grew up, but increasingly from the beginning with same-sex parents, in an opposite-sex family grew up, and have a separation experienced. As to marriages are statistically more stable than non-marital relationships, it is expected the same benefit-sex couples from the new right to marry – as well as the social acceptance of husband and wife, explain the researchers. In addition, a factor correlating with increased school performance of children had improved due to the better predictability of the family the socio – economic situation of same-sex parents.
Bad, especially adopted children of same-sex performed in the cohort from the year 2008, therefore, couples (in the sample, approximately 58.600 were adopted, of which 1182 were living with same-sex couples). This the researchers attribute to the fact that public authorities and private adoption, especially children with special needs a mediator earlier to same-sex couples-mediated. Only with the increasing acceptance of gay this would have allowed to adopt more children without special needs. There is a difference between the performance of same-sex couples adopted children over the adopted children of opposite-sex couples no longer recognize in the meantime, Boertien and Bernardi.
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