There has been a great deal of media attention focused on a pioneering new study of children with homosexual parents (defined as parents who had a same-sex romantic relationship while the child was under age 18). The first article based on the New Family Structures Study (NFSS) was published by lead researcher Mark Regnerus in the journal Social Science Research in June 2012.[1]
This study is the first to truly bridge the gap in our knowledge left by previous studies that have shown the benefits of being raised by a married mother and father (but which did not include direct comparisons with homosexual parents), and previous studies on homosexual parents (which, however, did not use large, representative samples).
The results of this study were no surprise to pro-family researchers, but have been bitterly attacked [2] by pro-homosexual activists. As summarized on the NFSS website,
[T]he data show rather clearly that children raised by gay or lesbian parents on average are at a significant disadvantage when compared to children raised by the intact family of their married, biological mother and father.
