Pediatrician Group: "no relationship between parents’ sexual orientation and any measure of a child’s emotional, psychosocial, and behavioral adjustment"

The Minnesota chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics announced earlier in September 2012, that Academy pediatricians oppose a Constitutional amendment in Minnesota that would ban marriage equality.

“This amendment would be harmful to the health and well-being of children and adolescents in Minnesota,” the group said in a press release.

The physician group said the passage of an amendment that bans civil marriage equality could lead to an increase in bullying and violence against LGBT youth.

The pediatrician group said:

“More than 25 years of research has documented that there is no relationship between parents’ sexual orientation and any measure of a child’s emotional, psychosocial, and behavioral adjustment. Rather, children’s optimal development seems to be influenced more by the nature of the relationships and interactions within the family than by the particular structural form it takes.”

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