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Originally Posted by bizaro86
I'm talking about a large sample, not an individual person, where I agree there are to many factors at play. For example, say you were trying to determine whether children of divorced or married couples are more likely get good grades. Some kids from both groups will have good and bad grades, because some of them are biologically more intelligent or motivated than others, and some will have better teachers, etc.
But in a large, correctly chosen sample of thousands of people in each group, those differences should cancel out as there will be some of each type of kids in each group.
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I see your point, and your point that there is not enough adult children of gay couples to get a large enough sample size. But there is definitely plenty of studies done on the effect of divorce on children and the concensus seems to be that there is no statistically significant differences in any traits. (If you want sources for this stuff it'll have to wait until I'm home).
Now I don't want to derail the thread to divorce, but if theres no evidence of change from a major event that happens (generally) in the youth of someones life, I think it would be reasonable to assume that there would be little to no differences when someone is brought up a certain way from birth. It is all they know, and thus is assumed to be normal. By the time the kid realizes theres a difference between his family and that of a traditional one, it won't matter.