Pediatrics Academy's Endorsement of Homosexual Adoption Will Help Put Children at Risk, CWA President Says

2/4/2002

From: Rebecca L. Riggs of Concerned Women for America, 202-488-7000; Web site: http://www.media.cwfa.org

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 -- A new report by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) claiming that children fare no worse in homosexual households than in two-parent, married families flies in the face of the social science research and the common sense beliefs of most Americans, Sandy Rios, president of Concerned Women for America (CWA), said today.

"Telling the public that a homosexual couple can raise a child as effectively as a married couple is on par with telling them that a single mom provides as complete parenting as a mom-and-dad couple," Rios said. "The American public knows better on both counts."

"As the single mother of a son, I can see quite clearly that having a mother and a father together would be far better for my son," Rios added. "Why can't our homosexual brethren concede the same, and why would a once-respected professional organization like the American Academy of Pediatrics declare such nonsense and disregard its responsibility to care for children?"

In a press release, the AAP said "there is a considerable body of professional literature that suggests" children with homosexual parents "have the same expectations for health, adjustment and development as children whose parents are heterosexual."

Rios said the AAP report "ignores a mountain of research that shows children do best in mother-father, married households," and hoped that most family doctors will not be swayed by this "obviously political attempt to promote homosexuality."

Robert Knight, director of CWA's Culture and Family Institute, feared the AAP report will be used to advance the "reckless liberal experiment" of placing young children and even babies in homosexual-led households.

"Creating motherless or fatherless families by design is not in the best interests of children," Knight said. "The unique combination of the two sexes either provides important benefits to children or it doesn't. You can't have it both ways."

"This is not the first time that sexual revolutionaries have used the pediatrics academy as cover," Knight said, adding that the AAP has been politicized for years, publishing questionable studies advocating "safe sex" propaganda for youth, and helping to popularize various aspects of the homosexual activist agenda.

Concerned Women for America is the nation's largest public policy women's organization.