There is no evidence they have more psychological problems, difficulty adjusting or atypical gender development, Golombok found. In other words, while the traditional model of mom, dad and biological kids was once considered “the gold standard,” four decades of research doesn’t bear that out.Īll other things being equal, children manage just as well - and face the same difficulties - whether they have two dads and no mom, or two moms and no father as they do with two heterosexual parents.
“What seems to be more important is the quality of the relationships within the family.” “The main conclusion is that what matters for children is not so much the structure of the family - the gender or sexual orientation of their parents, the number of parents or whether parents are biologically related to their children,” Golombok said in a phone interview from England. Modern Families: Parents and Children in New Family Forms, which rounds up research from around the world, concludes that children raised by same-sex parents and solo moms by choice or born as a result of donor conception or surrogacy fare just as well as kids raised by a two-parent, heterosexual married couple. Golombok, director of the university’s Centre for Family Research, has been studying the impact of evolving family structures on children for almost 40 years. According to a new book from University of Cambridge developmental psychologist Susan Golombok, the answer is a resounding “No.”
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