Attention, Startups: Move to New England. Your Gay Employees Will Thank You.

Re:Attention, Startups: Move to New England. Your Gay Employ... by run4yourlives on Friday November 14, 2008 @07:26PM (#365016)

It's really not that hard to find. Here's the first link after searching: "Influence of fathers". Lot's of supporting citations.

http://www.civitas.org.uk/hwu/fathers.php

You will have a hard time saying that a child will do better in a loving two-parent gay family than in the median family in the US.

Which is why I'm specifically not saying that. In fact, this is what I said: No, I would not suggest for a second that having a child requires "optimal" conditions.

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Re:Attention, Startups: Move to New England. Your Gay Employ... by tptacek on Friday November 14, 2008 @07:38PM (#365021)

Much of "influence of fathers" stuff is really talking about the implications of living in:

* single parent homes

* poor single parent homes

* poor and middle-class single parent homes where the single parent works full-time and has less influence over their children

* poor single parents homes in cultures that overtly disrespect fatherhood and implicitly promote weak family structures

I grant you immediately that it's not optimal to be raised in single-parent households --- with the obvious caveat that you have to control for income, culture, setting, and atypically excellent parents that pull it off anyways.

It looks like you & I agree more than we disagree.

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