A few U.S. states ban gay and lesbian couples from adopting children. Using research to support your answer, describe the development of children raised by gay or lesbian parents

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Answer 1

Although most research on homosexual families is limited to volunteer samples, findings indicate that gay and lesbian parents are as committed to and effective at child rearing as heterosexual parents and sometimes more so. Also, whether born to or adopted by their parents or conceived through donor insemination, the children of homosexuals did not differ from the children of heterosexuals in mental health, peer relations, or gender-role behavior.
Furthermore, children of gay and lesbian parents are similar to other children in sexual orientation: The large majority are heterosexual. But some evidence suggests that more adolescents from homosexual families experiment for a time with partners of both sexes, perhaps as a result of being reared in families and communities especially tolerant of nonconformity and difference.
A major concern of gay and lesbian parents is that their children will be stigmatized by their parents' sexual orientation. Most studies indicate that incidents of teasing and bullying are rare because parents and children carefully manage the information they reveal to others. Overall, children of gay and lesbian parents can be distinguished from other children mainly by issues related to living in a nonsupportive society.