Department of Government, School of Public Affairs, American University, Washington, Columbia, United States of America.
Department of Public Policy and Political Science, Mills College, Oakland, California, United States of America.
PLoS One. 2021 Feb 25;16(2):e0246929. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0246929. eCollection 2021.
Children were often near the center of public debates about legal marriage recognition for same-sex couples. Obergefell v. Hodges (2015), the case that resulted in legal same-sex marriage recognition, stressed the importance of these children as one of many factors compelling the opinion. Estimates indicated same-sex couples were raising 200,000 children in the United States. Children raised by same-sex couples may be politically socialized in distinct ways compared to children of different-sex couples because lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals tend to hold distinct and progressive political viewpoints on a wide variety of issues. What are the political attitudes of people with same-sex parents? In this exploratory study, we analyze a large, representative survey of first-year college students across the United States; we find few differences between people with same-sex and different-sex parents, and some of those differences may be attributable to households and respondent characteristics. When on the rare occasion a difference exists, we find that people with same-sex female parents are more progressive, but people with same-sex male parents are more conservative. Gender differences also emerged, with some distinctive patterns between males with same-sex parents and females with same-sex parents.
儿童常常是关于同性伴侣合法婚姻认可的公共辩论的核心。奥伯格菲尔诉霍奇斯案（2015 年），这一导致合法同性婚姻认可的案件，强调了这些孩子的重要性，是迫使该意见形成的众多因素之一。据估计，美国有 20 万名儿童由同性伴侣抚养。与不同性别伴侣的孩子相比，由同性伴侣抚养的孩子可能会以不同的方式受到政治社会化，因为女同性恋者、男同性恋者和双性恋者往往在各种问题上持有独特而进步的政治观点。同性父母的孩子的政治态度如何？在这项探索性研究中，我们分析了一项针对全美大一学生的大型代表性调查；我们发现，同性父母和不同性父母的孩子之间几乎没有差异，其中一些差异可能归因于家庭和受访者的特点。当极少数情况下存在差异时，我们发现，同性女性父母的孩子更进步，而同性男性父母的孩子则更保守。性别差异也显现出来，同性别父母的男性和女性之间存在一些独特的模式。
