Lesbian mothers have happy and healthy children, reveals a study carried out over the last 22 years and released this Monday (22) in the United States.
The study, the most important ever carried out with lesbian mothers in the country, shows that it is discrimination and not sexual orientation that harms children. To carry out the study, published in the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry and Journal of Lesbian Studies, researchers interviewed children aged 10 who were conceived through artificial insemination.
According to the study, the adverse effects of discrimination were significantly reduced when mothers, schools and communities encouraged respect for diversity. “The data from this study concludes that children who grew up in two-mother families are healthy, happy and active,” said Dr. Nanette Gartrell, one of those responsible for the study. “These mothers created a loving and safe environment where their children could grow and thrive. Even the negative effects of homophobia were reduced when mothers took active action in their community and when children studied in schools where diversity was encouraged,” the researcher added.
The issue of families formed by homosexual mothers came under discussion in Britain this year when the country's Parliament revised the Human Fertility and Embryology Act, which now allows both members of a same-sex couple to be recognized as legal parents. of a child born through assisted reproduction.
