Same-sex couples

Same-sex couples
Updated 20 January 2013
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Same-sex couples

Same-sex couples

I am disappointed that homosexual partners Elton John and David Furnish have adopted another child via a surrogate mother.
Last June, the American scientific magazine “Social Science Research,” the most prestigious peer reviewed publication of its kind, published two new innovative and definitive studies on children raised by same-sex couples.
From the studies it emerged that 12 percent of children brought up by same-sex couples contemplate suicide (against 5 percent of children with heterosexual parents), they are more inclined to be unfaithful (40 percent against 13 percent), they are unemployed more often (28 percent against 8 percent) and they are more likely to visit a psychotherapist (19 percent against 8 percent).
They are also more often under social service surveillance compared to peers who are raised by heterosexual couples. In 40 percent of cases they will catch a sexually transmitted disease at some point (against 8 percent of peers raised by heterosexual couples) and they are generally less healthy, poorer and more likely to smoke and commit criminal offences. — Paul Kokoski, By e-mail