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#24376 Re: Lasten oikeus hyvään kotiin

08.11.2013 14:46

#24280: - Adoptiovalvonnan porsaanreikä sekä lasten oikeus hyvään kotiin

"Miten siis voisimme taata sen, ettei lapsia - niin homoille kuin heteroillekaan - enää syntyisi olosuhteisiin, jossa kelvollisia kasvuolosuhteita ei heille huomattavalla todennäköisyydellä voida taata? Tällä on nimittäin suuri yhteiskunnan hyvinvointiin vaikuttava merkitys, sillä pahoin voivat lapset ovat paitsi taloudellisesti (sekä suoraan että välillisesti) valtava menoerä, ennen kaikkea heidän pahan olonsa ja siitä aiheutuvan oireilunsa kautta alati johtamassa selviin yhteiskunnallisiin ongelmiin ja inhimilliseen kärsimykseen, ei vähiten heille itselleen."

Esimerkkinä tästä osui silmiini tuore väitös Helsingin yliopistossa:

https://helda.helsinki.fi/handle/10138/41143

Otteita abstractista:

"Tulokset osoittavat, että vanhempien alhainen sosioekonominen asema ja kielteinen kasvatustyyli sekä tutkittavien lapsuuden aikainen aggressiivinen käyttäytyminen ennustivat aikuisuuden vihamielisyyttä ja ärtyneisyyttä."

"Sekä vihamielisyyden että ärtyneisyyden havaittiin olevan kohtalaisen pysyviä ominaisuuksia nuoruudesta aikuisuuteen. Vihamielisyyden ja työttömyyden välillä havaittiin kaksisuuntainen yhteys, tosin vihamielisyys ennusti vahvemmin työttömäksi joutumista kuin työttömyys vihamielisyyden lisääntymistä.

Tutkimus tuo uutta tietoa vihamielisyydestä työttömyyden ennustajana ja siitä, kuinka varhainen perheympäristö sekä vihamielisyyden ja ärtyneisyyden lapsuuden aikaiset edeltäjät ovat yhteydessä vihamielisyyden ja ärtyneisyyden kehityspolkuihin elämänkaaren aikana. Tutkimuksen löydösten perusteella aikuisuuden vihamielisyyden ja ärtyneisyyden ennaltaehkäisyyn olisi hyvä panostaa jo lapsuuden aikana, mikä voisi vähentää niistä yhteiskunnalle ja yksilölle koituvia kustannuksia." (tummennus minun)

Aggressiivisuus on vain yksi pahoinvoinnin ilmenemismuoto. Kun soppaan lisätään pelon, turhautumisen, häpeän ja muut negatiivisten kasvukokemusten synnyttämät tunneperäiset vaikutukset, saatamme ymmärtää, miksi ihminen voi niin huonosti, ja levittää pahaa oloaan myös ympärilleen, ja mitä vaikutuksia sillä on sekä yhteiskunnallisella että yksilötasolla.

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#24377 Re: Re: Lasten oikeus hyvään kotiin

2013-11-08 15:07:50

Study: Children of Lesbians May Do Better Than Their Peers

 

The teen years are never the easiest for any family to navigate. But could they be even more challenging for children and parents in households headed by gay parents?

That is the question researchers explored in the first study ever to track children raised by lesbian parents, from birth to adolescence. Although previous studies have indicated that children with same-sex parents show no significant differences compared with children in heterosexual homes when it comes to social development and adjustment, many of those investigations involved children who were born to women in heterosexual marriages, who later divorced and came out as lesbians.

For their new study, published on Monday in the journal Pediatrics, researchers Nanette Gartrell, a professor of psychiatry at the University of California at San Francisco (and a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles), and Henry Bos, a behavioral scientist at the University of Amsterdam, focused on what they call planned lesbian families — households in which the mothers identified themselves as lesbian at the time of artificial insemination.

Data on such families are sparse, but they are important for establishing whether a child's environment in a home with same-sex parents would be any more or less nurturing than one with a heterosexual couple.


The authors found that children raised by lesbian mothers — whether the mother was partnered or single — scored very similarly to children raised by heterosexual parents on measures of development and social behavior. These findings were expected, the authors said; however, they were surprised to discover that children in lesbian homes scored higher than kids in straight families on some psychological measures of self-esteem and confidence, did better academically and were less likely to have behavioral problems, such as rule-breaking and aggression.

"We simply expected to find no difference in psychological adjustment between adolescents reared in lesbian families and the normative sample of age-matched controls," says Gartrell. "I was surprised to find that on some measures we found higher levels of [psychological] competency and lower levels of behavioral problems. It wasn't something I anticipated."

In addition, children in same-sex-parent families whose mothers ended up separating did as well as children in lesbian families in which the moms stayed together.

The data that Gartrell and Bos analyzed came from the U.S. National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study (NLLFS), begun in 1986. The authors included 154 women in 84 families who underwent artificial insemination to start a family; the parents agreed to answer questions about their children's social skills, academic performance and behavior at five follow-up times over the 17-year study period. Children in the families were interviewed by researchers at age 10 and were then asked at age 17 to complete an online questionnaire, which included queries about the teens' activities, social lives, feelings of anxiety or depression, and behavior.

Not surprisingly, the researchers found that 41% of children reported having endured some teasing, ostracism or discrimination related to their being raised by same-sex parents. But Gartrell and Bos could find no differences on psychological adjustment tests between the children and those in a group of matched controls. At age 10, children reporting discrimination did exhibit more signs of psychological stress than their peers, but by age 17, the feelings had dissipated. "Obviously there are some factors that may include family support and changes in education about appreciation for diversity that may be helping young people to come to a better place despite these experiences," says Gartrell.

It's not clear exactly why children of lesbian mothers tend to do better than those in heterosexual families on certain measures. But after studying gay and lesbian families for 24 years, Gartrell has some theories. "They are very involved in their children's lives," she says of the lesbian parents. "And that is a great recipe for healthy outcomes for children. Being present, having good communication, being there in their schools, finding out what is going on in their schools and various aspects of the children's lives is very, very important."

Although active involvement isn't unique to lesbian households, Gartrell notes that same-sex mothers tend to make that kind of parenting more of a priority. Because their children are more likely to experience discrimination and stigmatization as a result of their family circumstances, these mothers can be more likely to broach complicated topics, such as sexuality and diversity and tolerance, with their children early on. Having such a foundation may help to give these children more confidence and maturity in dealing with social differences and prejudices as they get older.

Because the research is ongoing, Gartrell hopes to test some of these theories with additional studies. She is also hoping to collect more data on gay-father households; gay fatherhood is less common than lesbian motherhood because of the high costs of surrogacy or adoption that gay couples face in order to start a family.

 


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#24378 Re: Re: Lasten oikeus hyvään kotiin

2013-11-08 15:08:57

Study: Gay Adoptive Parents Make Great Adoptive Parents

 

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/10/study-gay-adoptive-parents-make-great-adoptive-parents/263893/

 


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#24379 Re: Re: Lasten oikeus hyvään kotiin

2013-11-08 15:09:34

#24376: - Re: Lasten oikeus hyvään kotiin

http://www.vauva.fi/keskustelu


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#24384 Re: Re: Lasten oikeus hyvään kotiin

2013-11-08 15:51:48

#24376: - Re: Lasten oikeus hyvään kotiin

"Miten siis voisimme taata sen, ettei lapsia - niin homoille kuin heteroillekaan - enää syntyisi olosuhteisiin, jossa kelvollisia kasvuolosuhteita ei heille huomattavalla todennäköisyydellä voida taata?"

Et voi taata sitä millään muulla keinolla kuin että lapsia ei sallittaisi enään kenenkään tekevän!!

Maailma nyt vain on sellainen että mitään takeita ei mistään voi saada. Ns. hienot vanhemmat voivat olla todella sairaita lapsen saatuaan ja taasen kauheat voivat olla mitä rakastavaisempia!

Turhaa jaarittelua!