Weighted to match population parameters, Regnerus estimated that 1.7% of the nation’s children have one or more homosexual parents. By comparison, Cameron and Cameron’s desultory survey of 5,182 adults in 1983-84 yielded unweighted estimates of 1.6% and 1.7%. Such close acquiescent between two nationwide studies predicated on arbitrary samples reinforces the credibility of both investigations. In Table 1, each of the 40 outcome measures that Regnerus studied and reported is ranked by kind of family unit. The family type that scored best on each variable is ranked #1, second-best #2 and so on, with the worst ranked #8. Family types that were tied on any outcome were assigned a prevalent ‘midrank,’ a standard statistical rank average.
Most of Table 1 fits right in line with traditional credences. For instance, those with gay or lesbian parent(s) were the:
most apt to say they were not exclusively heterosexual,
most apt to be on welfare,
least apt to be employed,
most apt to have gotten a sexually transmitted infection,
most apt to have recently thought of suicide,
most apt to report rape,
most apt to test impulsive,
most apt to smoke,
most apt to report heftily ponderous TV viewing,
most apt to have been apprehended,
most apt to have pled guilty to a crime,
most apt to score high on depression,
least apt to report being able to depend on others,
least apt to report having felt secure and safe in their family, and
most promiscuous.
