Our Free Read this week is No Differences? How Children in Same-Sex Households Fare, edited by Ana Samuel and published in February by The Witherspoon Institute. The book is an anthology of scholarly papers examining the latest data and scholarly literature on the social well-being of children raised in same-sex households. Published in leading, peer-reviewed journals and supplemented by easy-to-read summaries of each academic article, the essays in this volume help clarify crucial points of debate regarding the “no differences” claim, including the weaknesses of the gay-parenting studies affirming the children are doing just fine; the comparative strengths of the academic research that finds the opposite; the actual setbacks children from same-sex homes suffer; and hypotheses as to why the children experience the negative outcomes. For those who are interested in the academic debate but desire summaries that make the language easier for the non-specialist to understand, No Differences? will be a helpful resource for examining the role that family structures play in the well-being and flourishing of children. You can find a helpful review of the book by James Londregan, Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University, here.
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