Response By Dr. Paul Cameron To Attack On His Work By ABC's Primetime; Children of Homosexuals Say Their Lives Are Difficult

3/21/2002

From: Dr. Paul Cameron of the Family Research Institute, 303-681-3113 Web: http://www.familyresearchinst.org/

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., March 21 -- The following was released today by the Family Research Institute:

Dr. Paul Cameron states:

57 children who had homosexual parents were interviewed by lesbian researchers, who published the testimonies. Scientists at the Family Research Institute subjected these testimonies to content analysis and have just reported their findings in the peer-reviewed journal

Psychological Reports. Children with homosexual parents reported many problems. More than half of the kids complained of instability of parent's lovers, and emotional distress. About a third of the older children engaged in homosexuality.

Most (92 percent) of the testimonies mentioned one or more problems: of 213 problems, 201 (94 percent) were attributed to the homosexual parent. The excerpted testimonies can be read at www.familyresearchinst.org. Dr. Paul Cameron said "no one who reads these testimonies could possibly consider homosexual adoption a good idea. Indeed, just about all the investigators who have interviewed homosexuals' children have come to the same conclusion -- homosexuals make their kids bear a heavy burden. In addition, due to the examples of their parents and the association with other homosexuals a large proportion of them end up in homosexuality themselves. Homosexual adoption is a bad idea."

The report is available at http://www.familyresearchinst.org/FRI_homokids.html