{"id":8916,"date":"2014-02-09T17:01:41","date_gmt":"2014-02-09T17:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/?p=8916"},"modified":"2014-02-09T17:07:02","modified_gmt":"2014-02-09T17:07:02","slug":"8916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2014\/02\/8916\/","title":{"rendered":"Children Raised by Same-sex Parents &#8211; OK!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/lesbiancouple.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8922\" alt=\"lesbiancouple\" src=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/lesbiancouple.jpg\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/lesbiancouple.jpg 728w, https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/lesbiancouple-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Children raised by same-sex parents fare just as well in their education, emotional and social development as those raised by heterosexual parents, new research shows.<\/p>\n<p>The report on same sex-parented families in Australia, commissioned by the Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS), found &#8220;there is now strong evidence that same-sex-parented families constitute supportive environments in which to raise children&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The findings are at odds with Liberal Senator Cory Bernardi&#8217;s recent comments that the &#8220;gold standard&#8221; for children&#8217;s development is having a biological mother and father who are married.<\/p>\n<p>Report author Deb Dempsey, who reviewed all the research on same sex-parented families, said there was a wealth of evidence that showed the children were doing fine.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/lifestyle\/life\/study-finds-samesex-parenting-is-not-harmful-for-children-20140201-31tuy.html#ixzz2sqS884sq\">Read More at Syndney Morning Herald<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children raised by same-sex parents fare just as well in their education, emotional and social development as those raised by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Children Raised by Same-sex Parents - OK! 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