Katy Faust
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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And there were a lot of those kids who would openly admit, I mean, most of them had two moms. There was only one that had two dads at one point and they didn't stay too long. many of them would say, look, I had a femme mom and I had a butch mom. I mean, those words, their words, not mine. You know, the butch mom worked on cars, shaved her head, was stockier.
And the femme mom, longer hair, kind of slim, worked in the kitchen. And I asked them, I said, did any of those butch moms meet your need for a father? And they're like, no, she was my butch mom. And I loved her, I appreciated her, I respected her, but I craved male love. So this is not the kind of thing where a man can put on sort of a feminine presence.
Kids actually want, crave, need, deserve, and have a right to their mother and their father. They don't want somebody that acts masculine or acts feminine, at least from the kids that I know. And obviously, I probably have... a slanted sampling because the kids that are coming to me, many of which are going to come after this interview too.
We get tons of letters and testimonies from kids who cannot say this kind of thing out loud anywhere else.
They're incredibly rare. Yeah. Yeah. A quick note on same-sex parented studies. It's very rare to have high-quality studies. Interestingly, up until about 2005, there was a consensus among the social scientist community that children raised by their married biological mother and father fared best in a low-conflict marriage. I mean, that is what they tended to say in unison.
And then strangely, in the lead up to Obergefell, in those 10 years, there was an explosion of studies that said that kids with two moms or two dads fared no different or even better than kids raised by heterosexual parents. Right. Right.
Yeah, and then when you look at it, right, those 79 studies or whatever, many of which used the same data set and then reinterpreted and spun it to create multiple different studies. When you look at them, they all had very serious methodological problems. Like you said, not randomly derived. They were volunteered, recruited. There weren't adequate controls. They were very small sample sizes.
They weren't longitudinal. They couldn't replicate them. And most of them had to do with the self-reporting of adults. Like there was even a study that came out Last year in Italy, you know, gay fathers, children, you know, did just as well as heterosexual parents. But you look at it and it's like gay fathers report that their children under 10 love having gay dads.
I'm like, what you're saying is heterosexual parents are more honest about their shortcomings than gay fathers are. That's what you're talking about there. So it is going to be a long time.
First of all, there hasn't been a whole lot of studies since Obergefell, since gay marriage was legalized, because it was very obvious that there was a political push towards advancing those kinds of studies in the lead up to the Supreme Court's decision.
Oh, absolutely. Yeah.
And that would be assumed you could get it funded. He did this.
Yes, Mark Regnerus did that. He published a study in 2012, and he used the gold standard of social science. He got randomly derived participants. He asked the children themselves as adults what their outcomes were. Were they more likely to be sexually abused? Were they more likely to suffer emotional distress or depression? Were they more likely to be on welfare benefits? And the
you know, the no difference study actually turned out to be a massive difference. And he almost lost his job. They came after his credentials. They made his life a living hell. And since then, just like you said, there's been a queering of family studies.
And so now you don't get funded unless there is a pre-political conclusion that you've already assigned to, subscribed to, and are advancing through that study. So Wouldn't it be nice if we had good data? That would be great. We don't. There's very few studies that apply that gold standard of sociological social science methodology.
Paul Sullins did do it where he evaluated some government data and. no surprise, those no differences ended up being major differences, especially as it related to things like daily fearfulness, daily crying, higher levels of emotional distress, much higher levels of children who had educational IEPs, that kind of thing. And why are we surprised by this?
You know, anytime sociologists are not studying same-sex parenting, anytime they're doing any other kind of family structure study, they generally agree that biological parents advantage children in terms of they are more connected, more invested, and more protective of children. They generally agree that men and women offer distinct and complementary benefits to child rearing.
They generally agree that losing a parent to death, divorce, abandonment, results in child harms. They generally agree that an unrelated adult increases the child's risk of abuse and neglect.
By a lot.
They have a, we have a name for it. It's called the Cinderella effect. Like that's how well established it is. You know, and Wilson and Daly, you know, the Canadian sociologists. They're great too, Wilson and Daly.
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