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Same-Sex and Different-Sex Parent Households and Child Health Outcomes
Findings from the National Survey of Children's Health
April 2016
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Using data from the 2011–2012 National Survey of Children’s Health, this study compares family relationships, parenting stress, and child outcomes among same-sex female and different-sex continuously coupled parents with biological children.
Highlights
Parental and child characteristics were matched for 95 female same-sex parent and 95 different-sex parent households with children 6–17 years old.
Children with female same-sex parents and different-sex parents demonstrated no differences in outcomes.
Female same-sex parents reported more parenting stress than different-sex parents.
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