Mark Regnerus is not the most popular guy right now. Last Sunday, the journal Social Science Research made available his paper claiming that children raised by same-sex couples turn out to have more problems as adults than those raised by heterosexual parents. Readers reacted swiftly, his work inspiring legions of formal and informal peer reviews. A key concern that many identified, correctly, was that what Regnerus paper really compared were stable versus unstable households, regardless of the sexual orientation of the parents (for a clear and concise version of this argument, I d recommend this piece in Discovery News .)
Over the past week, conversations about the political fallout of Regnerus article abounded. The Daily Beast reported that the study provoked a political war, with socially conservative pundits using it to affirm their beliefs that gay and lesbian couples should not be parents, while those on the left condemned it as an attempt to undermine same-sex rights. Human Rights Campaign President Chad Griffin went on record saying , Because of the serious flaws, this so-called study doesn t match 30 years of scientific research that shows overwhelmingly that children raised by parents who are LGBT do equally as well as their counterparts raised by heterosexual parents. Many of the reviews, in favor or against Regnerus piece, operated in a similar framework of evaluating what the study means for gay marriage and same-sex parenting.
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