New research shows children raised by same-sex couples do better in school than children raised by opposite-sex couples.
The Washington Post reports:
"Children of same-sex couples perform better in school than kids raised by a mom and a dad, according to new research from several European economists.
The researchers found that children raised by same-sex couples had higher test scores in elementary and secondary school and were about 7 percent more likely to graduate from high school than children raised by different-sex couples."
Pink News notes that researchers who wrote the paper titled “School Outcomes of Children Raised by Same-Sex Couples: Evidence from Administrative Panel Data,” report the following:
"Our findings indicate that children particularly benefit from same-sex couples compared to opposite-sex couples if the couple is cohabiting rather than married…
Further, we also find that children from same-sex couples continue to outperform children from opposite-sex couples in secondary education. Our results suggest that children from same-sex couples are 6.7 percent more likely to graduate than children from opposite-sex couples."
The study was conducted by economists Deni Mazrekaj, Kristof de Witte, and Sofie Cabus of Belgian university KU Leuven, and “used government data tracking all children born in the Netherlands since 1995.”
The original research was presented at the American Economic Association conference in Atlanta in January.