Quote from: PhydeauxLeChien on July 07, 2014, 03:20:52 PM

Quote from: zolace on July 07, 2014, 03:13:06 PM

Interesting. Would like to see more studies. In the US at least, half of all pregnancies are not planned. I would imagine that most children in same sex parent families required planning. Children planned for are children wanted. I wonder if this might account for some of the difference

I agree. I would assume same-sex couples (and in fact all couples who adopt or otherwise try hard to become parents) are likely to have put a higher amount of planning and organisation into their child's upbringing than people who can have children 'by accident'. Couples who adopt are also more likely to be relatively wealthy / middle class, both of which have been shown to improve a child's wellbeing.

Then again, the study may account for these factors. I can't be fucked to read it though Cheesy

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I would say the same. To me, it seems that it's the degree of determination to have a child that really matters, not sexual preferencies/gender identities of the parents. If there was common for same-sex couples to have unplanned children, I'm not sure if the results would be the same.