Have to vehemently agree with Jon J.
As a child I spent most of my formative years living, (surviving) in foster homes and orphanages.
I would have gladly traded that existence in the blink of an eye, for a happy and stable home life, in the bosom of a doting same sex couple!
I dare say every Romanian orphan, living in death camp like conditions, would echo that sentiment.
And that goes double for some African orphans, who's parents have died of aids!
The Author, allegedly a devout Christian, pretends to care about outcomes for children?
Yet seems to allow a dark age medieval belief system to condemn hundreds of thousands of them, to a veritable lifetime of disadvantage and substandard lifestyles/opportunity, he would never ever accept for himself or any member of his immediate family; and that's just in Australia!
If there were any actual concern for the children?
Then this pious, preaching, pontificating, parsimonious, pulpit pounding, patriarchal pedagogue, would likely have just the opposite attitude!
Rhrosty.

Kipp - have a read of this article and see what it says:
http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2012/06/5640/

JP, you are doing it again, give us some objective social research information.

Kipp - so have you actually read the article?

JP - I've read it, and as Kipp points out, what you have posted is the anecdotal evidence of one person. A sample size of one allows for no statistical representativeness whatsoever, and cannot eliminate or control for the idiosyncrasies of an individual.

Kipp rightly calls for objective social research, so here's just one study:

"Outcomes for children with lesbian or gay parents. A review of studies from 1978 to 2000"

It's a review of 23 empirical studies encompassing 615 offspring (age range 1.5–44 years) of lesbian mothers or gay fathers and 387 controls, who were assessed by psychological tests, questionnaires or interviews.

The headline finding? "The studies indicate that children raised by lesbian women do not experience adverse outcomes compared with other children. The same holds for children raised by gay men."

http://ow.ly/lIJO7

Article in todays Age "Samesex parents raising healthier kids"
www.theage.com.au/victoria/samesex-parents-raising-healthier-kids-20130605-2npx.html