{"id":8350,"date":"2010-11-15T00:00:22","date_gmt":"2010-11-14T23:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=8350"},"modified":"2010-11-13T02:14:55","modified_gmt":"2010-11-13T01:14:55","slug":"study-of-lesbian-parents-finds-zero-instances-of-abuse-over-24-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2010\/11\/study-of-lesbian-parents-finds-zero-instances-of-abuse-over-24-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Study of Lesbian Parents Finds Zero Instances of Abuse Over 24 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just off the heels of a study saying <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.webmd.com\/parenting\/news\/20100607\/kids-of-lesbian-parents-are-well-adjusted\" >lesbians raise extremely well-adjusted children<\/a> comes another saying they&#8217;re unlikely to abuse their kids. In fact, the number is zero percent.<\/p>\n<p>Wow. Researchers at \u00a0Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law, which studies law and sexuality, has released new information on a decades-long study of lesbian families, interviewed the 17-year old children of their subject families about their upbringings:<\/p>\n<p>The paper found that none of the 78 NLLFS adolescents reports having ever been physically or sexually abused by a parent or other caregiver. This contrasts with 26 percent of American adolescents who report parent or caregiver physical abuse and 8.3 percent who report sexual abuse.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right, not a single one. As Queerty <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.queerty.com\/lesbian-parents-do-not-molest-their-children-like-ever-20101111\/#ixzz14zAhiy00\" >blogger Max Simon wrote<\/a>, these results plus the previous study pretty much demonstrate that &#8220;children are safer in the care of lesbians than Catholic priests.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/11\/10\/lesbians-child-abuse-0-percent_n_781624.html\" >HuffingtonPost <\/a>and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.queerty.com\/lesbian-parents-do-not-molest-their-children-like-ever-20101111\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+queerty2+%28Queerty%29\" >Queerty<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/newsandviews\/article\/327508\/study_of_lesbian_parents_finds_zero_instances_of_abuse_over_24_years\/#paragraph4\" >Go to Original \u2013 alternet.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just off the heels of a study saying lesbians raise extremely well-adjusted children comes another saying they&#8217;re unlikely to abuse their kids. In fact, the number is zero percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirational"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}