Study defends pay parents.Florida's continued ban on gay adoptious A`dop´tious a. 1. Adopted. notwithstanding, a new survey suggests that gay parenting might be just as good--if not better, in some ways--than straight parenting. A survey sampled highly educated lesbian and gay parents in 34 states and found two important indicators of greater parenting skills: They are more likely to talk about sex with their children and less likely to spank them than straight parents. "We found these parents quite prepared for parenting," says survey author Suzanne Suzanne is a common female given name that was particularly popular in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s. It remained in the top 200 most popular names in the United States between 1930 and the late 1980s. Johnson, a psychologist psy·chol·o·gist n. A person trained and educated to perform psychological research, testing, and therapy. psychologist and Dowling College Dowling College is a private college on Long Island, New York, with more than 6,500 full-time and part-time undergraduate and graduate students through four schools: the School of Arts & Sciences, Townsend School of Business, School of Education and School of Aviation. (N.Y.) professor, "and they received more support from friends, family, and schools than we imagined going in." Living their lives as openly gay people also "teaches their kids greater tolerance for difference," she added. |
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