title: Molestations by homosexual foster parents: newspaper accounts vs official records.
abstract: To assess whether a systematic tally of newspaper accounts reflect official foster-parent molestation a review of 6,444 news stories on Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe from 1989 through 2002 about child molestation yielded 33 stories involving foster parents. Of the 25 foster-parent perpetrators, at least 15 (60%) engaged in homosexuality. In Illinois 1997-2002, 92 (34%) of 270 foster- or adoptive-parent perpetrators who engaged in "substantiated" sexual abuse homosexually abused their charges. These findings suggest that the proportion of homosexual perpetrators in a systematic tally of newspaper stories is similar to the proportion of homosexual perpetrators in datasets from large entities and put in question the current policy of utilizing homosexuals as foster and adoptive parents.
authors.affiliation: Family Research Institute, Colorado Springs, CO 80962, USA.
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Cameron
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002391:Catchment Area, Health; D002648:Child; D002650:Child Abuse, Sexual / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D005581:Foster Home Care; D020010:Heterosexuality / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006716:Homosexuality / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009524:Newspapers as Topic; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D012042:Registries; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology