Inner Solace

In the longest-running study of lesbian families to date, zero percent of children — not one! — reported physical or sexual abuse. Given that in the general population 26 percent of children report physical abuse and 8.3 percent report sexual abuse, it seems that if we don’t want abused kids, the answer is obvious.

This news is just the latest in a long line of research showing that children of gay parents are happy and well-adjusted. Research published in 2010 in the Journal of Marriage and Family, for example — a five-year review of 81 parenting studies — found that children raised by same-sex parents are ‘statistically indistinguishable’ from those raised by heterosexuals in areas including self-esteem, academics and social adjustment.