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Rocky families, not same-sex parents, blamed for kids’ troubles in adulthood

New analysis rebuts earlier study linking gay households to problems later in life

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FAMILY TIES  A reanalysis of a controversial study finds that adult problems initially attributed to having grown up with gay parents mainly stem from having experienced family instability, whether or not parents were the same sex.

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By Bruce Bower

- More than 2 years ago

Family instability — not gay parents, as concluded in an earlier, controversial study — primarily causes children to develop more than their share of life problems when they hit adulthood, a new analysis finds.