Family Relations Week 1 and 2

These first few weeks of class have been very interesting.  I think the biggest thing that I have learned is you cannot just trust what you hear.  We looked at a study done by the APA that came to the conclusion that there is no difference between homosexual and heterosexual parents.  This really scared me because they said they had so much evidence.  But when you actually looked at the data you realized that most of the time they had no comparison groups or when they did it was single moms.  Only a few of the studies actually compared heterosexual parents and homosexual parents.  We talked a lot all week about not just trusting something because you think it is trustworthy and how to find out how legitimate something actually is.