The Robed Troll: It turns out Scalia’s comment was wronger than I thought
The Robed Troll:
It turns out Scalias comment was wronger than I thought and wrong in a way that Scalia, in particular, should have known.
It relied, remember, on the idea that sociologists are, in some significant way, split on this question. Thats not what the American Association of Sociologists thinks. Heres its official statement on the matter:
The claim that same-sex parents produce less positive child outcomes than opposite-sex parentseither because such families lack both a male and female parent or because both parents are not the biological parents of their childrencontradicts abundant social science research. Decades of methodologically sound social science research, especially multiple nationally representative studies and the expert evidence introduced in the district courts below, confirm that positive child wellbeing is the product of stability in the relationship between the two parents, stability in the relationship between the parents and child, and greater parental socioeconomic resources. Whether a child is raised by same-sex or opposite-sex parents has no bearing on a childs wellbeing.
The clear and consistent consensus in the social science profession is that across a wide range of indicators, children fare just as well when they are raised by same-sex parents when compared to children raised by opposite-sex parents.
Pretty definitive. And heres
the punchline: That paragraph isnt buried in a press release on its blog or in an editorial from its trade magazine. Its from the amicus curiae brief that the ASA filed in the very case Scalia was commenting on.
http://rising-hegemon.blogspot.com/2013/03/im-just-gonna-believe-what-talk-radio.html