“Adult Attachment Style Dimensions in Women Who Have Gay or Bisexual Fathers”: Response to Sirota

Schumm, Walter R.

doi:10.1016/j.apnu.2010.06.001

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“…Sirota (1997) 2009) also reported that “Women with gay or bisexual fathers were significantly less comfortable with closeness and intimacy ( t =5.26, p =.0001), less able to trust and depend on others ( t = 6.62, p =.0001), and experienced more anxiety in relationships ( t = 4.37, p =.0001)” (p. 289). Schumm (2010b) noted that the effect sizes associated with those outcomes were substantial at −0.90, 1.14, and 0.75, respectively. Again, prior divorce rates did not explain the differences.…”

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“…Sexual orientation .-Often overlooked has been a study by Sirota (1997Sirota ( , 2009, discussed in Schumm (2008 ) and Cameron (2009 ), in which the daughters of 68 heterosexual fathers were contrasted in terms of several variables with the daughters of 68 gay fathers. Sirota (1997 ) reported substantial diff erences with respect to daughters' sexual orientation ( OR = 17.0, p < .001) as well as questioning their own sexual orientation ( OR = 12.1, p < .001; Schumm, 2008Schumm, , 2010b. Schumm (2008 , p. 289) demonstrated that a diff erence in parental divorce rates was not a likely factor for explaining Sirota's fi ndings.…”

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Sarantakos's Research on Same-Sex Parenting in Australia and New Zealand: Importance, Substance, and Corroboration with Research from the United States

Schumm

2015

Comprehensive Psychology

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Sarantakos (1996a) compared teacher ratings and other outcomes for the children of heterosexual married, heterosexual cohabiting, and homosexual parents and reported numerous signifi cant, substantial diff erences. Few scholars have taken the eff ect sizes of his results into account or have considered his larger program of research. Sarantakos's research yielded many interesting fi ndings with respect to children's academic performance, sexual orientation, use of alcohol and drugs, sexual deviance, and gender identity with respect to parents' parenting values, relationship stability, confl ict, monogamy, and religiosity or moral values, many of which have been corroborated by U.S. or British research. In addition, the methodological quality of his research appears to be at least above average, especially for research done 20 or more years ago. He appears to have been unbiased with respect to same-sex families. His results disseminated via multiple publications should be taken into account in literature reviews concerning same-sex parenting. Patterson (2005) claimed in a brief sponsored by the American Psychological Association that "Not a single study has found children of lesbian or gay parents to be disadvantaged in any signifi cant respect relative to children of heterosexual parents" (p. 15), a theme reiterated more recently by Manning, Fettro, and Lamidi (2014). The idea that there is universal evidence of no eff ects whatsoever of sexual orientation on parenting outcomes can be labeled the "no diff erence" or null hypothesis regarding gay, lesbian, or bisexual parenting. Rosenfeld (2010) has stated that "The prior literature has found no evidence that children raised by same-sex couples suff er any important disadvantages" (p. 772) and "all the more recent studies that cite the earlier ones-none found statistically signifi cant disadvantages for children raised by gay and lesbian parents compared with other children" (p. 756). Judge Vaughn Walker, in his decision on the California Proposition 8 trial (section 70, Perry v. Schwarzennegger), stated that "Children raised by gay or lesbian parents are as likely as children raised by heterosexual parents to be healthy, successful and well-adjusted. The research supporting this conclusion is accepted beyond serious debate in the fi eld of developmental psychology" (Allen, 2013 , p. 635; Allen, 2015 , p. 154). When such absolute statements are made, there is the risk that readers might accept them at face value and conclude that such a scholarly certitude was justifi ed. Sarantakos (1996a) published an important study on parenting but the breadth of his research on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) issues is often overlooked. Given the controversial nature of LGBT issues (Satinover, 1996; Cameron & Cameron, 2002), the objective of the current paper is to assess the claims of Patterson and others that there is no extant research showing diff erences-whether overlooked or dismissed prematurely. The particular focus will be the multifaceted research of ...

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Sarantakos's Research on Same-Sex Parenting in Australia and New Zealand: Importance, Substance, and Corroboration with Research from the United States

Schumm

2015

Comprehensive Psychology

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“…The reviews we identified are notated with an asterisk (*) in our reference section; those articles used for research on the issue of whether same-sex parents are more likely to raise LGB children (labeled PCSOA for Parent-Child Sexual Orientation Association) are marked with a double asterisk (**). For information on reviews published prior to 2001, see Biblarz and Stacey (2001) or (Schumm, 2008(Schumm, , 2010b; for more information on reviews published in medical or legal outlets, see (Schumm, 2010a(Schumm, , 2013(Schumm, , 2015a; 2016, 2018; Schumm and Crawford, 2015).…”

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Evaluating the Quality of Literature Reviews in the Social Sciences: Developing a Measure of Quality with an Illustration

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2019

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How might scholars evaluate the quality of literature reviews in the social sciences? We developed a variety of potential measures of review quality and tested them using data from 72 reviews of the literature between 2001 and 2017 in the area of same-sex parenting, with a focus on the issues of any association between parental and child sexual orientation or greater acceptance of sexual diversity by the child for themselves or others. Six single item measures of quality were transformed into ordinal measures and combined to form a quality scale (a = .592). Quality measures were often not normally distributed, with positive skew and kurtosis, necessitating the use of nonparametric statistics. The quality scale was significantly correlated with citation rates as an indicator of scholarly impact. Contrary to expectations, some of the higher quality reviews more often disagreed with consensus viewpoints than did reviews scoring lower on quality. Encyclopedia entries scored the lowest on quality of any type of publication (versus books, book chapters, journal articles, and reports from professional organizations). Reviews varied greatly in quality, with scores of quality between 1 and 21, although overall quality was not significantly related to the year of publication of the reviews. The eleven highest quality reviews for same-sex parenting were identified. Suggestions for improving literature reviews in the future are discussed.

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“…Schumm (2008) found that the higher divorce rate among gay fathers was not sufficient to account for all of those differences. Effect sizes for the various aspects of attachment ranged between 0.75 and 1.14 in favor of the daughters of heterosexual fathers (Schumm, 2010f).…”

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“…Here some of them will be reviewed. Specific examples of some of the methodological problems often found in studies of LGBT populations have been detailed elsewhere (Marks, 2012; Schumm, 2004a, 2004b, 2005, 2008, 2010a, 2010e, 2010f, 2011a, 2011b, 2012a, 2012b, 2012c, 2013, 2014, 2015a, 2015b, 2016; Schumm & Crawford, 2015).…”

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A Review and Critique of Research on Same-Sex Parenting and Adoption

Schumm

2016

Psychol Rep

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Are the outcomes for children of gay, lesbian, or bisexual parents in general the same as those for heterosexual parents? That controversial question is discussed here in a detailed review of the social science literature in three parts: (1) stability of same-sex parental relationships, (2) child outcomes, and (3) child outcomes in same-sex adoption. Relationship instability appears to be higher among gay and lesbian parent couples and may be a key mediating factor influencing outcomes for children. With respect to part 2, while parental self-reports usually present few significant differences, social desirability or self-presentation bias may be a confounding factor. While some researchers have tended to conclude that there are no differences whatsoever in terms of child outcomes as a function of parental sexual orientation, such conclusions appear premature in the light of more recent data in which some different outcomes have been observed in a few studies. Studies conducted within the past 10 years that compared child outcomes for children of same-sex and heterosexual adoptive parents were reviewed. Numerous methodological limitations were identified that make it very difficult to make an accurate assessment of the effect of parental sexual orientation across adoptive families. Because of sampling limitations, we still know very little about family functioning among same-sex adoptive families with low or moderate incomes, those with several children, or those with older children, including adolescents or how family functioning may change over time. There remains a need for high-quality research on same-sex families, especially families with gay fathers and with lower income.

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“Adult Attachment Style Dimensions in Women Who Have Gay or Bisexual Fathers”: Response to Sirota

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Sarantakos's Research on Same-Sex Parenting in Australia and New Zealand: Importance, Substance, and Corroboration with Research from the United States

Sarantakos's Research on Same-Sex Parenting in Australia and New Zealand: Importance, Substance, and Corroboration with Research from the United States

Evaluating the Quality of Literature Reviews in the Social Sciences: Developing a Measure of Quality with an Illustration

A Review and Critique of Research on Same-Sex Parenting and Adoption

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