Social Scientists Defend Mark Regnerus' Controversial Study on Same-Sex Parenting

Michael Emerson, Christian Smith, and others defend sociologist accused of being "anti-gay," "breathtakingly sloppy," and getting "everything wrong."

Jeremy Weber

An influential group of social scientists -- including many who have appeared in CT's pages -- have issued a public statement defending Mark Regnerus's controversial study on same-sex parenting.
Regnerus, a sociologist at the University of Texas at Austin, published a paper in the July issue of Social Science Research that examined "how different are the adult children of parents who have same-sex relationships?" His findings, based on his New Family Structures Study, indicated that young-adult children of parents who have had same-sex relationships are more likely to experience emotional and social problems.

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