Calling it a “flawed, misleading, and scientifically unsound paper that seeks to disparage lesbian and gay parents,” GLAAD, HRC, The Family Equality Council and Freedom to Marry yesterday condemned a parenting study trumpeted by its author Mark Regnerus (pictured) yesterday in Slate which on its face appears to overturn three decades of research into families with same-sex parents. The story was picked up widely in media.
The study is being lauded, of course, by right-wing groups like NOM.
Writes Regnerus in Slate on the ‘New Family Structures Study’: