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Report
Quality of Life of Adolescents Raised from Birth by Lesbian Mothers
Findings from the US National Longitudinal Family Study
January 2012
This report from the National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study compares the psychological well-being of adolescents raised by lesbian mothers to that of adolescents raised by opposite-sex parents. It was published in the Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics in January 2012.
Highlights
The ongoing U.S. National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study has followed the same cohort of offspring from conception to adolescence.
Adolescents raised by lesbian mothers were comparable to adolescents raised by opposite-sex parents in terms of psychological well-being.
Nearly half of the adolescents raised by lesbian mothers reported that they had been treated unfairly as a result of having a lesbian mother.