New study: Lesbian households produce a child abuse rate of 0%
The U.S. National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study (NLLFS) just released its results on its 24-year long study on families with lesbian parents, finding that not one of the 78 adolescents in the study had reported being sexually or physically abused by their parents. This compares to 26% of American adolescents overall who report parent or caregiver physical abuse. 8.3% report sexual abuse.
The study isn't terribly valid for several reasons
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(2) CPS Selectivity in such couples
(3) likelihood of poor lesbian couples being identified as such
(4) quantity of children placed with such couples is often very low
(5) number of children in study isn't statistical highly significant