Children raised by gay couples show good progress through school, study finds

Tuesday, August 31, 2010 - 09:28 in Psychology & Sociology

By mining data from the 2000 Census, a sociologist figured out the rates at which kids raised by gay and straight couples repeated a grade during elementary or middle school. He found that children of same-sex parents have essentially the same educational achievement as their peers growing up in heterosexual households.

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