Kids from same-sex parent households are pretty well adjusted.

Shocked?

I'm definitely not.  I don't understand the uproar about "lack of traditional family values" and the "degradation of the institution of marriage" in regards to gay relationships, marriage, and child rearing.  Especially child rearing.

When I read about the UCLA study in the Journal of Pediatrics where researchers followed lesbian couples with children since 1986, I was thrilled!  The verdict of the researchers: children raised in lesbian households were more socially and academically well-adjusted than children from traditional families.  Shocking, right? 

Not really.  Although there is so much uproar over gay couples adopting/having kids, the fact of the matter is that any planned pregnancy, any wanted child, would be better taken care of and looked after, regardless whether it's two moms, two dads, or a heterosexual couple.   I would much rather see a child in the hands of two loving lesbians than in the hands of a dysfunctional man and woman.

Overall, the study had a bit of some selection bias, since women who chose to participate did so through the use of fliers handed out at lesbian events, bookstores, and through the newspaper.  Are these women who participated any different than other lesbian mothers?  Also, I do believe that a traditional couple can very well be actively involved in the raising of their children and that some children raised by a heterosexual couple are indeed more well-adjusted than the children from lesbian families.  However, this study shows that lesbian mothers shouldn't be denied the option to raise a family (either by adoption, surrogacy, or insemination) strictly based on their sexual orientation.  If so, then maybe we should start limiting the procreative and adoption choices of certain heterosexual couples that don't fit the traditional family mold (unmarried couples, cohabitating couples, divorced unmarried couples, older couples, etc). 

Keep things in perspective.  A child needs only love, support, kindness, and respect in order to grow up to be an emotionally stable and socially responsible individual.  Lesbian women do not lack this capacity, so why would anyone think their children would grow up to be social deviants or maladjusted teenagers?  Hooray to all the moms and dads out there who are loving their children and responsibly raising their kids according to what they think is right no matter what public opinion says!

Read the CNN coverage of this here.