title: Homosexual parents in custody disputes: a thousand child-years exposure.
abstract: Through 1998, 78 custody appeal decisions involving 79 homosexual parents were evaluated. The 142 children involved in these cases were exposed to a thousand child-years of homosexual parenting. In appeals records (a) parents recorded as lying or engaging in criminality or homosexuality were more apt to be recorded as harming children; (b) homosexuals more frequently were recorded as lying or engaging in criminality; (c) in 54 (70%) disputes the homosexual parent or his associates and in 4 (5%) the heterosexual parent was recorded as having exposed the children to harm(s), e.g., neglect, seduction; and (d) homosexuals were responsible for 111 (97%) of the 115 recorded harms to children. For 78 nonhomosexual vs nonhomosexual control cases, in 11 (14%) the 141 children were exposed to 12 harms.
authors.affiliation: Family Research Institute, Inc, Colorado Springs, CO 80962, USA.
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Cameron
authors.forename: David W
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Harris
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D002655:Child Custody / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D005260:Female; D006716:Homosexuality / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology