Lesbians' Children Are Better Behaved, Study Finds

Better behaved, or intimidated because they come to realize they live in an environment not yet socially acceptable? Where are the child protection services, when it is allowed to put a child into this kind of social morass? Who speaks for the child?

Yep, it's amazing the effect love has on children.

Gosh ! Do you think that maybe. Just Maybe, there was a little bias applied here with the funding coming from Gays and Lesbians. I can tell you for a fact that after working with the local Coroner's Office here, there is a large number of Gay/Lesbian suicides, and the notes they leave clearly show just how emotionally screwed up they can be. Emotional instability hardly goes hand-in-hand with well behaved children. The claim sound flimsy and superficial.

The result of this study has also been my personal observation over the last 30 years. The daughters of lesbian mothers especially are very well adjusted. And, not that it matters, but most often are heterosexual in my observation.

Over-compensation or the phenomena of #2 tries harder was always my top reason for this fabulous parenting outcome. Having been raised also myself in a dysfunctional heterosexual family, I laugh when confronted with homophobic heterosexuals because it is a heterosexual act generally that gets most of us here, and most LGBT (lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and transsexual) individuals I know were reared in heterosexual environments. The irony and humor in this observation is often lost on many heterosexuals, but many get it today.

It is not surprising that lesbian mothers might try harder because society tells them they have less to offer in the absence of a male father and husband. I know I would have been so motivated had I taken the leap into motherhood. God knows I put my all into mentoring many over the years.

Parenting is not easy under any circumstances I have concluded, and if some lesbian mothers are finding a formula in these complex and trying times, my hat is off to them: Kudos, ladies!

Oh, another agenda promoting "study"..

which, I'm sure, also took into consideration the long term psychological & spiritual health of the children..

Think this is one of the most misunderstood, misinformed thing on earth. As a Conservative, I have never considered gay people not as "human" as straights. Indeed, as a Christian, I love all people and see them as "sinners" as we all are, including myself. It's just a sexual one that is very confusing. There is great misunderstanding about Christianity and gays & some Christians re their beliefs about it.(My opinion is that it's mainly a "generational curse"/"defect" from our family line (first described how it began in Romans 1, Bible). It's not a sin to just have those preferences, only to practice them, just like hetero sexual sins. But so?? We all have some kind of problem (like deformities, propensities to diseases, alcoholism, mental problems, etc.). None of those are "normal" and like I said, it's only sin if you make the choice to engage. But God expects us to come to Him to deal with. Most don't and think like this writer; thus the problem increases and continues to be passed down. Re these children: what were their ages? When you're younger, it doesn't much matter about this, if everything else is ok. Plus it depends on what they've inherited. It's when you're a pre-teen, teen that you really need to be clear about this & can easily be "confused". Since we "religious right" people believe this lifestyle is not healthy in all kinds of ways & abnormal (which is not a religion - it's a scientific fact) and that the Bible teaches the practice of this is a sin & all sins will send you to hell for eternity (without faith in Jesus for your forgiveness); will bring judgements down on the nations that widely practice, make legal - we try to help others which is offensive to them since they don't want to be "told" how to live...especially by "God", whom we've been trying to kick out for many years now.

Why is this important? 78 Lesbian couples? What about Gay couple parents? Heterosexual parents? Parents get involved with your children, and let go of the "politics" of an a certain group. Trying too hard.....

To Helena: I just read the exerpt from your book,'Riding in Cars With Lesbians.' What a tough time just beginning your teen years! It made me laugh - the sunglasses ad exchange,it made me cry-a majority of it, and it definately left me wanting to read more so I look forward to the book coming out. On this article topic, I have two friends who were raised by gay couples- one with two dads and one with two moms. The boy with the two dads fared far better and went on to college and has a sucessful career. The boy with two moms finished high school and works as a construction worker. At times there were incidents similar in your story as far as physical fights between the women, though not as bad as the one you experienced. I may be wrong, but it's my opinion anyway that a child raised with two parents and with love whether gay or straight are going to excel better than those who grew up with either one or two parents in utter turmoil. You obviously, like some others, went on to have a more peaceful adulthood, pursue special talents (like you have with your writing) and strive for a life radically different than how they grew up. My parents are straight, fought like your 'moms' and I fought to raise my children 100% differently and in a peaceful, for the most part, home. We are two of the more fortunate ones who fought to be able to rise above it all. Too many are not able to do that which in my opinion makes Wright's study have no merit. Best of luck with your new book! I'll surely be buying it!

Lesbians don't accidentally get pregnant. When they do get pregnant, it's most likely because they've actively searched for a sperm donor and have spent months or years planning for a child. And as you've mentioned, parents who are ready and prepared for children seem to be more psychologically adjusted. I've noticed this among children who were born to older parents, including myself. My dad was 46 and my mom was 38 when I was born. As a child, I was always told how mature and well-adjusted I was, and I definitely think it had a lot to do with the fact that I was planned and born to already seasoned parents of two other children. I think the link between lesbian parents and a child's pyshcological adjustment needs to be re-evaluated for other factors as well.

all I have to say is kudos, if everyone approached others with this in mind (people are people) the world would be a much better place!