Open AccessThe Harms of Same-Sex Parenting
Author(s) -
Steven M. Krason
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
the catholic social science review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1944-6292
pISSN - 1091-0905
DOI - 10.5840/cssr2019242
Subject(s) - spanking , neglect , ideology , psychology , criminology , social psychology , developmental psychology , child abuse , punishment (psychology) , politics , political science , law , suicide prevention , poison control , environmental health , medicine , psychiatry
This was one of SCSS President Stephen M. Krason’s “Neither Left nor Right, but Catholic” columns that appear monthly in Crisis and The Wanderer. It discusses the solid social science research that shows the harms to children raised in same-sex households. He says that in spite of this the child protective system (CPS), which seems to regard such things as spanking and free-range parenting as child abuse/neglect apparently does not view the harms of same-sex parenting to be worthy of investigating. Krason suggests that this is because of the ideological biases that characterize the CPS.