study, “School Outcomes of Children Raised by Same-Sex Parents,” published in the American Sociological Review.Researchers examined children raised by 3,000 same-sex parents — 2,786 female couples and 185 male couples — and those raised by more than one million opposite-sex parents.The study was conducted in the Netherlands, which became the first country to legalize same-sex marriage in 2001.The results show that children of same-sex parents outperform their peers at all levels of schooling, from elementary through high school.
Specifically, children of same-sex parents are 4.8% more likely to earn their high school diploma.According to the lead author of the study, Deni Mazrekaj, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford, the.
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