A. Society has always been focused on the family dynamic a child is raised in and how it could always affect them. Rachel F. Harr, researcher from the University of Michigan started researching whether what the bible says must be the only way of raising a child. The exact question is “Does Parental Sexual Orientation Matter?”, this causes the researcher to participate in a longitudinal study. The case study was done in the case of children who have been adopted. The study involved waves of checking on children in either the mother and father relationship and children in a Lesbian Gay family. There were two waves, first when the child was in preschool and then when they were in middle school. This research led to the discovery that regardless
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With research, it is always important that the information collected is accurate, that way it can be used for further research. Considering that this is from an Academic Journal and was published by the American Psychology Association, this proves that the research was valid and greatly appreciated. Especially since the American Psychology Association is held at such high standards.
E. The intended audience in this article are the doubters and people who look down on Lesbian Gay couples for raising a child in a non-traditional home. This was done to show that, just like the children being raised in mother father homes, there children are the same if they are raised right.
F. To conduct this study, Harr had to recruit five private adoption agencies to perform the study. This included the first wave family with 106 families with 212 children, with 106 of the children from those families being adopted. These were the families with the children in the preschool range with an average age of three years old. The wave one family had 56 same sex couples, were 27 were lesbian and 29 were gay, the remaining 50 were other sex couples. The couples were 80% white, considering the data was taken across the South, East, and West Coast of the United States. However, the children were more racially diverse with only 43% being white. Considering the researcher did not give explicit detail on how this information was received for example a questionnaire of some sort, we can say that this discredits …show more content…
Overall, I would say this information has been very valid in the sense that their sample size was a reasonable amount, they performed multiple tests to consider whether children raised in different homes did different in school and such. Then it even made it better that they had contacted teachers of these students to compare their results rather than just what they had gathered. The one thing that discredits this research is that 16% of the children had ADHD, I assume that somewhere in the research they would provide some information that agrees with that percentage rather than what the parents had told. However, it does provide scientific information about the behavioral aspect of sexuality, in the sense that sexuality does not affect how a child performs in
With research, it is always important that the information collected is accurate, that way it can be used for further research. Considering that this is from an Academic Journal and was published by the American Psychology Association, this proves that the research was valid and greatly appreciated. Especially since the American Psychology Association is held at such high standards.
E. The intended audience in this article are the doubters and people who look down on Lesbian Gay couples for raising a child in a non-traditional home. This was done to show that, just like the children being raised in mother father homes, there children are the same if they are raised right.
F. To conduct this study, Harr had to recruit five private adoption agencies to perform the study. This included the first wave family with 106 families with 212 children, with 106 of the children from those families being adopted. These were the families with the children in the preschool range with an average age of three years old. The wave one family had 56 same sex couples, were 27 were lesbian and 29 were gay, the remaining 50 were other sex couples. The couples were 80% white, considering the data was taken across the South, East, and West Coast of the United States. However, the children were more racially diverse with only 43% being white. Considering the researcher did not give explicit detail on how this information was received for example a questionnaire of some sort, we can say that this discredits …show more content…
Overall, I would say this information has been very valid in the sense that their sample size was a reasonable amount, they performed multiple tests to consider whether children raised in different homes did different in school and such. Then it even made it better that they had contacted teachers of these students to compare their results rather than just what they had gathered. The one thing that discredits this research is that 16% of the children had ADHD, I assume that somewhere in the research they would provide some information that agrees with that percentage rather than what the parents had told. However, it does provide scientific information about the behavioral aspect of sexuality, in the sense that sexuality does not affect how a child performs in