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June 15, 2010 Volume 5 Issue 19

Lesbians are Like, Totally the Best Parents Ever! NOT!!

What you can do to counter the latest attack of political correctness!

Have you been wondering how to respond to the recent Lesbians-Make-the-Best-Parents study? The Ruth Institute has something you can say. And you can fight back against the absurd bias of academia and the media.

My critique of the study is here. I’ll make a long story short: the study that made the headlines in Fox News and MSNBC is small sample of politically interested, statistically unrepresentative, self-identified lesbian mothers reporting on the behavior of their children. The researchers found these mothers via announcements at lesbian events, women’s bookstores and lesbian newspapers in Boston, Washington D.C. and San Francisco, hardly a scientifically representative sample. And would you be impressed by a report that says, “My precious little darling is doing fine in school,” without ever asking the teacher, or checking the child’s grades? That’s the basis for this survey’s claim that the children of lesbians do better in school than the children of the general population.

And did I mention the sample size? The study surveys 77 mothers of 78 children. You read that correctly: the latest spasm of political correctness was based on 78 children.

Naturally, the survey concludes that the children of lesbian mothers do better than everyone else, and that men are completely unnecessary. Naturally, the Main Stream Media breathlessly reported this “news” without the slightest bit of critical reflection. Why am I not surprised?

Two can play at this game. We can find our own non-random set of politically interested mothers to report on their own children. That would be you and your friends! I have a feeling we can find more than 77 mothers with more than 78 kids on our side.

Our goal is to get 7,800 mothers’ reports by Fathers’ Day, Sunday June 20th!

Everyone can help. Mothers with kids at home, fill out our little questionnaire. And since this survey is about children, you can fill it out for as many minor children as you have at home. Please forward this survey to your friends.
If you aren’t a mom, if your kids have left home, if you’re a guy, forward this message to every mother with children in the home in your address book! We can find plenty of people who appreciate the contributions of fathers to the family!

Help us fight back against the illogic of political correctness! Just in time for Fathers’ Day!

Take the survey on the impact of fathers on children’s behavior. Please, only mothers fill out this survey for each minor child living in your home. Then forward the link to all the moms you know!

 

Blog Highlights of the Week

Check out Lesbians Make the Best Parents Ever, from which our survey is based, and Three Really Pernicious Messages behind the “Lesbians Make Better Parents” Story line. Read the comments. Add some of your own!

 

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