http://jezebel.com/5598623/world-slowly-discovers-that-good-parents-are-good-parents-...-or-straight
Get this: parental stress levels and skills matter more to their adopted kids'
development than the parents' .uality. Meanwhile, the fictional ...
parents on The Kids Are All Right are pissing some people off.
A recent study found that the children of ... parents may actually be
better-adjusted despite their tragic lack of a male parent. Now comes another,
wide-ranging study of 106 adoptive families, roughly half of which were ... or
... parented, involved input from teachers as well as parents — a relatively
new data source in such studies. The result:
"Measures of children's adjustment, parenting approaches, parenting stress, and
couple relationship adjustment were not significantlyociated with parental
.ual orientation. However, several family process variables—parenting stress,
parenting approaches, and couple relationship adjustment—were found to be
significantlyociated with children's adjustment, regardless of parental
.ual orientation.
In other words, the evidence suggests that potential adoptive parents should be
evaluated on the basis of whether they might make good parents, not whether or
not they are into opposite marriage. Seems simple, right?
Too bad the law doesn't reflect that in several states. As The Washington Post
notes, "Same-. couples are barred from adopting children in Florida,
Mississippi and Utah. A similar case is in the Arkansas courts."
And ... parents who take in foster children can face a markedly more difficult
path to adoption, as illustrated by a West Virginia case documented by The New
York Times magazine last year, in which a court-appointed attorney for a foster
child filed a motion to "remove child from physical placement in homo.ual
home," because, he claimed, children raised by ...s are more likely to be abused
or become .... "As in so many states around the country, in the absence of a
firm policy, individual social workers, agencies and attorneys still make
decisions about who can and cannot be a foster or adoptive parent," the piece
noted.
Speaking of representations of ... parenting (through ... donation, not
adoption), The Kids Are All Right, which could help normalize ... parenting in
the minds of the unconvinced, "is the largest release ever for a mainstream film
about ...s and is on track to become one of the highest performing indie
films of 2010," according to GLAAD. But as predicted, not everyone is pleased
about the film. Their roundup of reactions include a small, but very upset
contingent of ... commentators who are annoyed at the "... just wants a
guy" implications they see in the movie.
But at least everyone agrees they seem like pretty good parents! And that the
title is true to reality, mostly.
more
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/college-inc/2010/07/study_..._..._couples_thri.html
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