Parents gay

The children of lesbian parents are less likely to identify as heterosexual as adults and parents gay more likely to report same-sex attraction, according to a long-term study by the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law, a think tank focused on sexual orientation and gender.

As many as 6 million children and adults in the U. Nanette Gartrell, M. Started inthe study has been following the offspring of lesbian parents from conception into adulthood. For this latest report, 76 children of lesbian parents, now all adults in their mids, were asked about their sexual attraction, identification and behavior.

Further, 54 percent of women and 33 percent of men with lesbian parents reported having a same-sex sexual experience between the ages of 17 and 25, compared to 38 percent of women and 9 percent of men in the NSFG group. As for the big gender gaps among men and women from both the NLLFS and NSFG groups, Gartrell said these differences are consistent with previous research over the past 15 years that suggests women experience sexuality more fluidity than men.

About the broader National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study, Gartrell said its motivation was to understand the first generation of children conceived by donor parents gay in the U. In a study published last year in the New England Journal of Medicine, Gartrell and her co-authors showed that from a mental health perspective, adult children with lesbian parents fared just as well as their peers with opposite-sex parents.

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