Research has shown that children raised by lesbian couples outperform those raised in a heterosexual environment.

Believed to be based on research carried out both in the UK, at Birkbeck University, and in America, the issue was raised by Professor Stephen Scott, Director of Research for the National Academy for Parenting Practitioners, the government’s main agency for parenting. He also stated that daughters with lesbian mothers were more likely to go into professions viewed as traditionally ‘male’, such as medicine or law, and that their children were in general more likely to be aspirational. They are more likely to fight against social injustice, however they are no more likely to be gay or bisexual than the offspring of straight parents.

The findings were revealed at an event run by think tank Demos, a group believed to have had considerable impact on Labour Party policy in the past.

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