Department of Sociology, Utrecht University, Padualaan 14, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Nuffield College, University of Oxford, New Road, Oxford OX1 1NF, UK.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 May 13;19(10):5922. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19105922.
Same-sex parents face substantial stressors due to their sexual orientation, such as experiences of prejudice and prohibitive legal environments. This added stress is likely to lead to reduced physical and mental health in same-sex parents that, in turn, may translate into problematic behavioral outcomes in their children. To date, there are only a few nationally representative studies that investigate the well-being of children with same-sex parents. The current study takes a closer look at children's behavioral outcomes, reported by a parent, using an adapted version of the emotional, conduct, hyperactivity, pro-social, and peer problems subscales of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ). We take advantage of unique data from the Netherlands based on a probability sample from population registers, whereby findings can be inferred to same-sex and different-sex parent households with parents between the ages of 30 and 65, and with children between the ages of 6 and 16 years (62 children with same-sex, and 72 children with different-sex parents). The findings obtained by coarsened exact matching suggest no significant disadvantages for children with same-sex parents compared to different-sex parents. We contextualize these findings in their wider cultural context, and recommend a renewed focus in future research away from deficit-driven comparisons.
同性父母由于其性取向而面临着巨大的压力，例如遭受偏见和法律环境的限制。这种额外的压力可能会导致同性父母的身心健康状况下降，进而导致他们的孩子出现行为问题。迄今为止，只有少数具有全国代表性的研究调查了同性父母孩子的幸福感。本研究利用荷兰基于人口登记概率样本的独特数据，使用《长处与困难问卷》（SDQ）的情绪、行为、多动、亲社会和同伴问题分量表的改编版，更深入地研究了父母报告的儿童行为结果。该研究的结果可以推断出 30 至 65 岁的同性和异性父母家庭，以及 6 至 16 岁的孩子（62 名同性父母的孩子和 72 名异性父母的孩子）。通过粗化精确匹配得到的发现表明，同性父母的孩子与异性父母的孩子相比，没有明显的劣势。我们将这些发现置于更广泛的文化背景下，并建议在未来的研究中重新关注避免基于缺陷的比较。
