Professor Oberklaid said the effect on children could be both direct and indirect. "Children and adolescents with same-sex parents are emotionally affected when they and their families are exposed to homophobia, discrimination, prejudice and social stigma," the authors wrote. However, same-sex couples and their families face "devaluing and discriminatory" messages regarding LGBTIQ issues and this can have negative psychological impacts, the review found. "These are factors that play a role in better child health and wellbeing." Impact of stigma and discrimination "Because it's quite difficult to form a family as a same-sex couple, and you often have to go through IVF and fertility treatment pathways, the cohort tends to be slightly better educated, with slightly higher income," said Dr Simon Crouch, the lead investigator of the Australian Study of Child Health in Same-Sex Families.
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They noted, however, that these positive differences may reflect the parenting, socio-economic status and family stability within the same-sex parented families studied. "In addition to equivalent social and educational outcomes, these studies conclude that children raised by same-sex couples show better psychological adjustment, and greater open-mindedness towards sexual, gender and family diversity." The authors also highlighted that there is some research to suggest children with same-sex parents "do better" in some areas than other children. "These are the factors that are important for raising healthy and resilient children," she said. "Things like the quality of parenting, parental wellbeing, the way parents relate to the child, the nurturing and stimulating qualities in the home … those factors are much more important than whether the parents are heterosexuals or same sex," Professor Oberklaid said.Īssociate Professor Kylie Gray from the Centre for Developmental Psychiatry and Psychology at Monash University agreed, and said there was a strong body of international research to demonstrate that quality parenting and a nurturing family environment were key to children's wellbeing and development. They found "family processes", such as parenting quality and parental wellbeing, rather than "family structure", the number, gender, or sexuality of parents, make "a more meaningful difference to children's wellbeing and positive development".
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The child health experts said this is "misinformation". "The consensus of the research - pretty clearly, over several generations - is that children of same-sex parents do as well, if not better, than those children raised by heterosexual parents," said senior author Professor Frank Oberklaid of the Murdoch Children's Research Institute.Īs the same-sex marriage postal survey voting period enters its final weeks, the review addresses one of the key claims of the 'No' campaign - that children do better when raised by a mother and a father. In a comprehensive review published today in the Medical Journal of Australia, 13 child and adolescent health experts from the Melbourne Children's found children raised in families with same-sex parents do "as well emotionally, socially and educationally" as children raised by heterosexual parents. It is discrimination, not same-sex parents, that harms children, according to a leading group of Australian paediatricians.