{"id":21275,"date":"2019-02-14T13:07:28","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T13:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/?p=21275"},"modified":"2019-02-14T13:07:32","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T13:07:32","slug":"new-study-children-raised-by-same-sex-couples-do-better-in-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2019\/02\/new-study-children-raised-by-same-sex-couples-do-better-in-school\/","title":{"rendered":"New study: Children raised by same-sex couples do better in school"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_1103_2_2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_1103_2_2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_1103_2_2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_1103_2_2-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Mark, Jeff, &amp; Chloe in Provincetown, MA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Several European economists have delivered new research which indicates children of same-sex couples perform better in school than kids raised by a mom and a dad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The researchers found that children raised by same-sex couples had higher test scores in elementary and secondary school and were about 7 percent more likely to graduate from high school than children raised by different-sex couples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The study used government data tracking all children born in the Netherlands since 1995. 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