Kids With Lesbian Parents Report Higher Self-Esteem Than Kids With Heterosexual Parents: Study

Same-sex parents might still have an uphill battle to forge, but a new study seems to provide a helpful push in the right direction.

In a study billed as the first to compare adolescent-parent relationships and adolescent well-being in intact lesbian and heterosexual families, children of lesbians reported having higher self-esteem and lower conduct problems than those of heterosexual couples.

“By controlling for variables that might otherwise impact child outcomes, this study provides further evidence that raising children in families headed by same-sex couples is not a significant predictor of adolescent-parent relationships or of a child’s psychological adjustment,” principal investigator Henny Bos, Ph.D., a former visiting international scholar at the Williams Institute, UCLA School of Law and professor at the University of Amsterdam, said in a press release published by the Williams Institute on Monday.

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