"Compared to heterosexual women, lesbians appear to have higher rates of smoking, obesity and alcohol use.

...Because many lesbians get examined less frequently than other women and because of the relatively high smoking, drinking and obesity rates there is widespread suspicion that they get breast and cervical cancer more often or start treatment later. They also are less likely to bear children before age 30, missing out on the breast-feeding that reduces risk of breast cancer."

(Source:  "Lesbian Community Assesses Health Issues," The Associated Press, June 20, 2004; http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Living/ap20040620_1312.html .)

"The research literature on childrearing by homosexual parents is limited. The environment in which children are reared is absolutely critical to their development. Given the current body of research, the American College of Pediatricians believes it is inappropriate, potentially hazardous to children, and dangerously irresponsible to change the age-old prohibition on homosexual parenting, whether by adoption, foster care, or by reproductive manipulation. This position is rooted in the best available science."

(Source:  "Homosexual Parenting: Is It Time For Change?" The American College of Pediatricians, January 22, 2004; http://www.acpeds.org/index.cgi?cat=22&art=50&CONTEXT=art )

How well do homosexuals do in meeting the demands of parenthood? According to Hollywood and progressive social activists, they do very well indeed. However, the judges in the United States and Great Britain who must adjudicate child custody cases involving homosexual parents might well give a different opinion.

In a recent study of homosexual parents involved in six British custody appeals, psychologist Paul Cameron uncovered new evidence that homosexual parents often fall far short of the mark of responsible and caring behavior. Just as in a previous study conducted with data collected from 40 child-custody cases contested in the United States, Cameron documents a disturbing pattern of "recorded lying and criminality" among the British homosexual parents involved in these custody appeals. In contrast, none of the heterosexual parents involved in the British custody appeals or in the randomly selected comparison cases were implicated by the court in "lying or engaging in criminality."

Furthermore, just as in the American custody cases, "when the children [involved in the British custody cases] were recorded as harmed or as exposed to harms, they were more likely to be judged and recorded by the court as stemming from the homosexual or his [or her] associates than from the heterosexual or his [or her] associates."

Cameron concludes that "the 'character and personality' that [jurists have traditionally] considered at the heart of deciding between contesting parents differs between homosexual vs. heterosexual parents in custody appeals." And only the ideologically blind cannot see what that difference implies for children's well-being.