ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1997, Roanoke Times
DATE: Saturday, April 5, 1997 TAG: 9704070079
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-8 EDITION: METRO
DATELINE: WASHINGTON
Lesbians who become parents through artificial insemination are raising emotionally healthy and well-adjusted children, according to three new studies.
In studies presented Thursday at a meeting of social scientists, researchers said that standard psychological tests found no significant differences between children of lesbian parents and those of heterosexual parents.
``When you look at kids with standard psychological assessments, you can't tell who has a lesbian parent and who has a heterosexual parent,'' said Charlotte J. Patterson, a University of Virginia researcher. ``That's really the main finding from these studies.''
The studies were conducted in the United States, Britain and the Netherlands. They were presented at a meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development.
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