Child Study Finds Early Child Care Linked to Aggression & Disobedience

Study Shows Family Instability Has Negative Effect on Children's Behavior

Marital Breakdown and Divorce Increases Rate of Depression

US Prison Bureau Suppresses Study Strongly Linking Child Porn to Child Molesters

Massive Chinese Recalls, But FDA Silent Over RU 486 Chinese Manufacturers

Study Finds 49% of US College Students Are Abusing Drugs or Alcohol

Report to Euro Parliament Says "A Child Is Aborted Every 25 Seconds"

CT Abortion Business Employee Pleads Guilty to Sexual Abuse / UPDATE        

MSM Have "Far Higher" Risk of Eating Disorders

UK Docs: Abortion Causes Mental Health Problems & Raises Suicide Risk 

Abortion and Pornography 

Former Patient Sues PP for Misdiagnosis and Coverup of Her Cancer   

US Human Trafficking and the Canada Connection  

Global Health Crisis and WHO    

The Natural Family & The Rebirth of Society...  

LARGEST US CHILD STUDY FINDS EARLY CHILD CARE LINKED TO AGGRESSION AND DISOBEDIENCE: Results proved true regardless of quality of center-based care they received. Analysis of the largest, longest running, and most comprehensive study of child care in the USA has found that the more time children spent in center-based care before kindergarten, the more likely their teachers were to report such problem behaviors as "gets in many fights," "disobedient at school," and "argues a lot."

The study confirms research published last year which was undertaken in Canada which found that children in daycare were 17 times more hostile than children raised at home, and almost three times more anxious. The Canadian study also found negative effects on parents.

A 2005 study from England demonstrated that a mother's care was best for toddlers' development, with nursery care linked to "higher levels of aggression." An Australian study published in 2006 confirmed prior research finding that daycare seems to damage babies' brain chemistry and affect their "social and emotional development."

The current study, which appears in the March/April 2007 issue of Child Development, found that children with more experience in child care centers showed in early grades through sixth grade, a greater frequency of what the researchers termed teacher-reported externalizing problem behavior.

Teachers reported more frequent problem behaviours such as: child demands a lot of attention; argues a lot; bragging and boasting; cruelty, bullying or meanness to others; destroys things belonging to others; disobedient at school; gets into many fights; lying or cheating; screams a lot.

The study, led by Jay Belsky, Ph.D., Director of the Institute for the Study of Children, Families and Social Issues and Professor of Psychology at Birkbeck University of London, also found children who had been in center care in early childhood were more likely to score higher on teacher reports of aggression and disobedience. This was true regardless of the quality of the center-based care they received.

The 1,364 children in the analysis had been tracked since birth as part of the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development. Families were recruited through hospital visits to mothers shortly after the birth of a child in 1991 in 10 locations in the U.S. The children studied were not a representative sample of children in the U.S. population.
Canadian study coverage: Study Shows Canada's Universal Daycare Plan Has "Strikingly Negative" Consequences
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/feb/06020205.html. [March/April 2007 Child Development; 26March07, DC, LifeSiteNews.com] 
 

STUDY SHOWS FAMILY INSTABILITY HAS BAD EFFECT ON CHILDREN’S BEHAVIOR: Family make-up –whether raised in a two-parent or a single parent environment - also linked to behavioral problems FAMILY MAKE-UP LINKED TO BEHAVIORAL PROBLEMS.

A new sociology study from John Hopkins University [Maryland] confirms what pro-family groups have been saying for decades - family instability has a direct correlation to bad behavior in children. According to a Hopkins press release about the new study, “children who go through frequent transitions are more likely to have behavioral problems than children raised in stable two-parent families and maybe even more than those in stable single-parent families.”

Entitled “Family Instability and Child Well-Being”, the study was authored by Hopkins sociologists Paula Fomby and Andrew Cherlin and will be published in the April issue of the American Sociological Review. The data used for the Fomby and Cherlin paper was gathered from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) data which is comprised of a 21-year project focusing on women and their children. The children studied in the test were between 5 and 14 years old in 2000. Data researchers utilized a cognitive achievement test, a mother-reported log of behavioral problems and, in the older age group of 10 to 14 years, a self-reported log of behavioral problems.

Fomby and Cherlin took the NLSY data and correspondently applied the number of marital and co-habitational alterations the children had respectively undergone.

Using a scoring process similar to that used for a standard IQ test, the study’s authors determined that a child who endured three family living alterations would be likely to have a behavioral problem score approximately 6 points higher than a child who had experienced no such alterations.

Multiple family transitions were also directly linked with more frequent instances of juvenile delinquency such as vandalism, theft and truancy. The research indicated that white children are more negatively impacted in both behavioral issues and academic achievement by family instability than black children.

The authors suggested that black children possibly weather the emotional storm better due to the fact that they typically have more immediate family nearby for emotional support. The researchers cautioned that their sample data may have also affected the racial disparity found in the study since the women involved were between the ages of 21 and 39 years old at the time of the birth of their child. Black women frequently have children at younger ages than white women and thus would not have fallen within the established age guidelines established.

In both black and white children, the study indicated a consistent correlation between living in a ‘mother only’ household during the first years of life and mother-reported behavior problems. White children living under the same circumstances also experienced lower reading skills than white children raised in a two-parent home.

Fomby concluded, “Family instability does appear to have a causal role in determining whether white children exhibit more behavior problems. But for both white and black children, other dimensions of family structure, like being born to a single parent or living with a step-parent, also have persistent effects. Instability isn't the whole story, but looking at change tells us more about what explains children's behavioral development than what we would see by looking at a cross-section.” [2April07, Meg Jalsevac, BALTIMORE, LifeSiteNews.com]

MARITAL BREAKDOWN AND DIVORCE INCREASES RATES OF DEPRESSION, StatCan Study Finds. Experiencing the breakdown of a marriage leads to an increased risk of depression compared to staying with a spouse, a new study published by Statistics Canada has found. Based on data from the National Population Health Survey (NPHS), the study examined the connection between ending a marriage and subsequently experiencing depression. Men and women were both found to have a greater risk of developing depression during the two years following the end of a marriage or committed common-law relationship, compared with couples who remained together. Twelve percent of people whose marriage ended suffered from depression in the following two years, compared to just 3 percent who stayed in the relationship. Men, however, were more at risk of experiencing depression following separation than were women. Men aged 20 to 64 who experienced divorce or separation were six times more likely to report experiencing depression than were men who remained married, while women who had gone through a divorce or separation were 3.5 times more likely to experience depression than those who stayed with their partners.
 While other factors accompanying the end of a relationship may contribute to the experience of depression, such as economic difficulties or changes in the number of children living in the home, researchers found such changes were not enough to account for depression levels, which remained higher even after the other possible factors were taken into consideration. While a majority of people recovered from depression four years after the break-up, the study showed a significant minority continued to experience depression. Statcan study:
http://www.statcan.ca/english/freepub/82-003-XIE/2006005/articles/marital/part10(Marital)_e.pdf
[24May07, Gudrun Schultz, Ottawa, LifeSiteNews.com]
 

US PRISON BUREAU SUPPRESSES STUDY STRONGLY LINKING CHILD PORNOGRAPHY TO CHILD MOLESTERS: Study makes a shocking (though not unexpected!) discovery - more than 85 % arrested for possession or distribution admitted molesting at least one child. The Federal Prison Bureau has a new study indicating that 85% of convicted consumers of child pornography may have sexually molested a child. However the New York Times reports that the federal agency has suppressed the publication of the report out of concern that the public will misinterpret its conclusions.
 
The Times reports that the unpublished research was conducted by psychologists at the Federal Bureau of Prisons and that it constitutes the first in-depth survey done by prison therapists of online sexual offenders' history - everything from indecent touching to rape. The therapists were actively performing treatment.
 
The report was to be published in the Journal of Family Violence until Judy Garrett, an official with the Prison Bureau, requested in April that it be withdrawn saying the report did not meet "agency approval."
 
"We believe it unwise to generalize from limited observations gained in treatment or in records review to the broader population of persons who engage in such behavior," states a letter from a bureau official obtained by the Times.
 
A draft of the paper obtained by the Times show the study was conducted by two psychologists, Andres E. Hernandez and Michael L. Bourke, and surveyed 155 male inmates at the Federal Correctional Institution in Butner, North Carolina. All these prisoners were serving sentences for either possession or distribution of child pornography.
 
The psychologists then made a shocking discovery. More than 85 percent of these men admitted to sexually molesting at least one child, far exceeding the 26 percent known to have committed these offenses at the time of sentencing. In the end, the 75 known sexual crimes perpetrated against children became 1,777: a more than 20-fold increase from the time of sentencing.
 
One anonymous Canadian prisoner serving a 14 year sentence explained to the Times how viewing child pornography would lead him to sexually molest children: "I knew that in my mind. I knew that in my heart. I didn't want it to happen, but it was going to happen."
 
Dr. Peter Collins, leader of the Forensic Psychiatry Unit of the Ontario Provincial Police, underscored the importance of the Hernandez-Bourke study, calling it "cutting-edge stuff."
 
Collins criticized the suppression of the study, saying, "We're really on the cusp of learning more about these individuals and studies should be encouraged, not quashed."
 
Previous studies based on criminal records had estimated that 30 percent to 40 percent of those arrested for possessing child pornography also had sexually molested children. [20July07, Peter J. Smith,  D.C., LifeSiteNews.com]
 

MASSIVE CHINESE RECALLS, BUT FDA SILENT OVER RU-486 CHINESE MANUFACTURERS. For weeks the US Food and Drug Administration has been warning the American public about tainted Chinese imports of contaminated pet food, poisonous toothpaste, and an outbreak of botulism. However the federal agency has failed thus far to issue warnings over the possible contamination of RU-486, a chemical abortion pill made exclusively in China, which has led to at least 6 documented deaths in North America and hundreds of severe adverse effects in women.

As the Chinese scandals began to unfold, pro-life Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ) and co-chairman of the Bipartisan Pro-life Caucus called on the FDA to investigate Danco, a company established in the Cayman Islands solely for the purpose of selling its only product, RU-486, in the United States. Smith wanted to ascertain its relationship with the Shanghai based manufacturing company, Hua Lin Pharmaceuticals.

"As the serious problem with tainted products coming out of China becomes more clearly evident and the deadly effect of RU-486 on women's lives also becomes more increasingly evident, I ask that you take a serious and comprehensive look at the companies involved in the marketing and manufacture of RU-486," stated Rep. Smith in a July 3 letter.

Smith's concerns were publicly validated barely a week after his letter, when the Chinese State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) ordered Hua Lin to suspend its sale of Methotrexate, a cancer drug also used off-label by abortion clinics as a chemical abortifacient, for possible taint after receiving complaints of severe side-effects.

The SFDA has been reeling from widespread corruption and scandal in its ranks. The former SFDA head, Zheng Xiaoyu was executed this May on corruption charges, and the SFDA reports that it may take at least 5 years to clean up the morass of false and deficient drugs approved by Zheng's administration. The Chinese government has also revoked the production licenses of five drug makers over the last year and penalized 128 others.

Smith's letter to the FDA pointed out that Hua Lin, the manufacturer of Mifepristone or RU-486, has had a history of violating US health regulations. He cited two FDA visits to Hua Lin manufacturing sites in 1999 and 2000 revealing "serious problems including possible mixing of fresh materials with waste material barrels and use of impure source ingredients." The FDA also revealed back in 2000 that Hua Lin had a decade of violating US regulations before approving the drug that year.

Wendy Wright, President of Concerned Women for America, which has vigorously protested the FDA's abandonment of its typically rigorous standards to approve RU-486 and now Plan-B "emergency contraception," told LifeSiteNews.com that a number of officials in the FDA have a mindset that "it's better to have this on the market because women are at greater risk of getting pregnant than they are of dying from this product."

"If the FDA treated RU-486 like any other drug or food product then it would need to pull RU-486 from the market," said CWA's Wright. "One problem is that RU-486 and abortion overall is treated with a greater preference by government officials than almost anything else."

"I think if most women customers were told outright that there is a risk of dying from this product... they would probably not use that product," said Wright. "But instead with the FDA's stamp of approval women are assuming that the drug is safe and effective."

Representative Smith spoke with LifeSiteNews.com about his struggle to get the FDA to reconsider its negligent approval of RU-486 for woman.

"Most Americans would be shocked that this dangerous baby pesticide is being brought in from China by a company incorporated in the Cayman Islands," said Smith. "I mean that has fraud written all over it."

"The Population Council has the rights to [RU-486] in the United States. It's a non-governmental organization without the deep pockets of a Merck or a Johnson and Johnson, so when women get harmed or die whom do you sue? Danco, a company in the Cayman Islands?" continued Smith saying it was "exceedingly hard" for injured women or dead women's survivors to take legal action. Smith called the over 600 severe adverse effects and 6 deaths recorded by the FDA just "the tip of the iceberg" since no effective monitoring system for RU-486's effect on the general population is in place. (see related: http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/jan/06010301.html)

"Sham trials brought it here in the first place," Smith said, noting that FDA standards were sacrificed in order to fulfill the Clinton administration's priority of bringing RU-486 to the United States.

"We're going to keep pressing the FDA for some answers," said Smith. He has requested the FDA to send him a history of documentation from its first approval process of RU-486 by August 2. Smith said that if he has no answers from the FDA after August 2, he plans to ratchet up the pressure for the FDA to look into health concerns over the deadly abortion pill.

Related coverage: FDA Reveals 607 Adverse Events Related to RU-486 Abortion, Including Five Deaths
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/jan/06010301.html

Two More Women Die After Medical Abortion with Abortion Pill RU-486, FDA Warns
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/mar/06031702.html
[26July07, D.C., Peter J. Smith, LifeSiteNews.com] 
 
 

STUDY FINDS 49% OF US COLLEGE STUDENTS ARE ABUSING DRUGS OR ALCOHOL. A new report by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University found that forty-nine per cent (3.8 million) of full time college students binge drink and/or abuse prescription and illegal drugs.
 
The study, titled Wasting the Best and the Brightest: Substance Abuse at America’s Colleges and Universities, also found that 1.8 million, 22.9 per cent, met the medical criteria for substance abuse and dependence, two and a half times the rate of the general population.
 
The 231-page report was completed after over four years of research and is the largest study ever undertaken of substance abuse on US college campuses. Joseph A. Califano, Jr., CASA’s chairman and president and former U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare said, “In this world of fierce global competition, we are losing thousands of our nation’s best and brightest to alcohol and drugs, and in the process robbing them and our nation of their promising futures.”
 
The CASA study found that while there was no decline in the proportion of students who drink (70 to 68 percent) and binge drink (40 to 40 percent) from 1993 to 2005, the intensity of excessive drinking and rates of drug abuse have jumped sharply.
 
From 1993 and 2001 the proportion of students who binge drink frequently is up 16 per cent; who drink on 10 or more occasions in a month, up 25 per cent; who get drunk at least three times a month, up 26 per cent; and who drink to get drunk, up 21 per cent.
 
Such astonishingly high rates of substance abuse among the young can come as little surprise to the authors of a previous study linking poor school performance and substance abuse with high rates of divorce and the breakdown of the traditional family structure.
 
The U.S Center for Marriage and Family released a study in November 2005 that showed a correlation between abuse of alcohol or drugs, poor educational standings and divorce or other irregular family situations.
 
The earlier study compared education outcomes from children growing up with their own married parents to children in non-intact family structures such as divorced, single, remarried or cohabiting parents. Adolescents living in a situation other than with their own married father and mother, the report found, were at higher risk for smoking, using drugs and consuming alcohol.
 
Related:
College Women at Risk for Psychiatric Illness at Politically Correct Campuses
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/dec/06121409.html    [30March07, By Hilary White, LifeSiteNews.com]

MAJOR REPORT TO EURO PARLIAMENT SAYS "A CHILD IS ABORTED EVERY 25 SECONDS" IN EUROPE. The Madrid-based Institute for Family Policies (IFP) has issued a report to the European Parliament warning about "the deterioration of the family panorama." Citing demographic, sociological and economic evidence from a team of experts, IFP called on EU delegations to make the family a policy priority and promote the traditional family as an institution, recognize the fundamental right of parents to educate their children and to adopt policies that support the development and well-being of the family.

Entitled "The Evolution of the Family in Europe 2007," IFP presented the document with alarming indicators regarding population, birth rates, marriage and divorce rates to members of the European Parliament, the European Commission, the European Economic and Social Committee, journalists and members of civil society.

According to the report, a child is aborted every 25 seconds, a rate that far exceeds any other external cause of death in Europe including traffic accidents, AIDS and suicide. The number of marriages has declined by 22.3% since 1980. Divorce rates are skyrocketing with one occurring every 30 seconds. One out of every three babies born in the EU is born out of wedlock. The report also underscores the changing face of Europe with a modest population growth rate that is attributable almost exclusively to immigration, an increasing aging population and a dwindling number of youth under the age of 14.

According to the report, of every 13 euros that Europe sets aside for social expenditures, only one euro is set aside for the family. Social spending on old age and health respectively account for 42% and 29% of total social program spending and expenditures in those areas continues to increase. By comparison, government expenditures on family and children account for only 7.8%.

Urging the European Parliament to adopt a "genuinely family-oriented approach," the IFP has proposed a set of social, economic and cultural measures to promote the family. These include: the creation of offices that would be charged with promoting the family as a policy priority; the launch of media campaigns which promote the family and place value on childhood and maternity; and the increase of family benefits such as tax breaks, maternity and paternity leave and assistance for families caring for elderly relatives at home.

IFP president Lola Velarde told the Friday Fax, "The outlook for the family has worsened in a worrying fashion. The social, economic and demographic crises of recent decades have emphasized the role of the family unit as a highly effective cushion against problems such as unemployment, illness, housing, drug addiction and social exclusion. Nowadays the family is seen as a principal support element within society. It is essential that the different institutions and organizations support them, as well as the Member States, the local authorities and even public services and businesses."
Full report: http://www.ipfe.org/Report_Evolution_Famiy_europe_2007_EU27.pdf [7June07, Samantha Singson, NY, C-FAM.org; 7June, LifeSiteNews.com]

CT ABORTION FACILITY EMPLOYEE PLEADS GUILTY TO SEXUAL ABUSE of three teenage girls. Former modeling agency owner Michael Britt, 43, who worked as a janitor at the abortion center, is the subject of the latest CT case involving sexual abuse and abortion for sexually assaulting teens aged 18, 17, & 14 in March and April 2005 after they signed papers to be models. Britt, owner of Model World Enterprises had been charged on multiple counts but Senior Asst. State's Attorney Cornelius Kelly told the judge the teens were reluctant to testify against him.

Britt lured the teenagers by telling them that they couldn't become models unless that had intercourse with him.

He took the 14 year-old to the Summit Women's Center abortion facility [Lipton family owns the chain which included the abortion business in Birmingham, AL which was closed by the state in 2006], where he worked and which was located in the same building as his agency.

The 17 year-old indicated he took her to the abortion center as well.  The Britt case follows just weeks after another abortion-sexual abuse case prompted observers to wonder why abortion facilities are not contacting authorities about the actions. state2285.html

Kevon Walker, 22, was charged earlier this month with getting his then 14 year-old girlfriend pregnant three times in six months and the girl wound up having three abortions as a result. Abortion businesses failed to report the statutory rape to authorities and officials only began investigating Walker's actions when the victim's mother contacted them. [Connecticut Post; 29May07, Ertelt, LifeNews.com, Bridgeport, CT]

UPDATE: CT Abortion Center Staffer Sentenced to Prison for Sexual Abuse
Bridgeport, CT (31Aug07, LifeNews.com) -- The employee of an abortion facility in Connecticut is headed to prison for three years for sexually abusing girls at a modeling agency he owned. Britt tried to get a reduced sentence, according to a Connecticut Post report, and told the judge, "I'm a good husband and I think I did enough time." However, Judge Comerford gave Britt a sentence of 10 years in prison, suspended after he serves three years, and another 10 years of probation. Britt must also register as a sex offender. Senior Assistant State's Attorney Cornelius Kelly made it clear that the abortion center employee would be back before a judge if he run afoul of the law following his prison sentence.   Read Ben Stein's weblog: http://www.expelledthemovie.com/blog/   [31August2007, LifeSiteNews.com]  

STUDY FINDS HOMOSEXUAL AND BISEXUAL MEN HAVE "FAR HIGHER" RISK OF EATING DISORDERS. Homosexual and bisexual men may be at far higher risk for eating disorders than heterosexual men, according to a study conducted at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. In the first population-based study of its kind, the researchers found that homosexual and bisexual men have higher rates of eating disorders. The findings are reported in the April 2007 issue of International Journal of Eating Disorders.
 
Researchers Ilan H. Meyer, PhD, associate professor of clinical Sociomedical Sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health and principal investigator, and Matthew Feldman, PhD, of the National Development and Research Institutes and first author, surveyed 516 New York City residents; 126 were straight men and the rest were bisexual men and women.
 
According to the study results, more than 15 percent of homosexual or bisexual men had at some time suffered anorexia, bulimia or binge-eating disorder, or at least certain symptoms of those disorders -- a problem known as a subclinical eating disorder, compared with less than five percent of heterosexual men. In contrast, homosexual inclination did not seem to influence the risk of eating disorder symptoms among women. Just below 10 percent of lesbian and bisexual women and eight percent of heterosexual women had ever reported having a subclinical eating disorder.
 
The study provides further evidence of the dangers involved with the homosexual lifestyle. LifeSiteNews.com reported in March about a study which demonstrated that practicing homosexual men with HIV are 90 times more likely than the general population to develop anal cancer.
 
Other studies have found that in addition to eating disorders, homosexuals experience increased incidences of sexually transmitted diseases, cancer, psychological problems and addiction problems.
 
Related coverage:
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/mar/07032205.html
 
Abstract of the article in the International Journal of Eating Disorders:
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/114099467/ABSTRACT [16April07, NYC, John-Henry Westen, LifeSiteNews.com]

"CONCLUSIVE" REPORT BY AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PEDIATRICS ON HOMOSEXUAL ADOPTION SHOWN TO BE FULL OF HOLES: Said to contain "major quotation and interpretive errors that ... invalidate the conclusions in the article."

Over the past five years, Dr. Sharon Quick, a member of the American Society of Anesthesiologists and retired Clinical Assistant Professor from the Washington School of Medicine, has analyzed all of the major scientific literature that was used in the 2002 American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Technical Report on Same-Sex "Marriage" Adoptions. The final report was printed in the highly influential Pediatrics journal and concludes by supporting the adoption of children by Gay and Lesbian Couples.

In an Iowa court-case in late May, Dr. Quick gave her official testimony that the Technical Report "contains major quotation and interpretive errors that, irrespective of the quality of the studies cited, invalidate the conclusions in the article."

Many medical societies trust the accuracy of the AAP's investigations and base their policies upon its reports. The report influenced the American Medical association, for example, to support the adoption of children by same-sex parents. The Report was also as evidence in the Massachusetts legal battle over same-sex union and in United States Supreme Court cases as well.

Dr. Sharon Quick discovered that the report inaccurately references an unprecedented 57 percent of its scientific literature. The list of grossly mis-gathered and misrepresented information reveals the bias and inaccuracy in the Technical Report.

These errors spread through a Policy Statement (2002) and Special Article entitled, "The Effects of Marriage, Civil Union, and Domestic Partnership Laws on the Health and Well-Being of Children," (2006) both printed in Pediatrics. The Special Article drew its information and conclusion almost entirely from the Technical report and so heaped inaccuracy upon inaccuracy. The Article stated, for example, "Lesbian mothers strongly endorse child-centered attitudes and commitment to their maternal roles." The original studies, however, did not specifically focus on lesbian maternal roles. The Report also ignores some of M. Kirkpatrick's original data (1987) which records a Lesbian mother calling her partner's son a "macho creep".

Out of 63 studies, 45 groups used volunteers for their samples. Much of the research was prone to participant, interviewer and researcher bias. For example, in some cases, participants were interviewed by lesbians or by researchers who supported same-sex unions.

In the case of Golombok et al (2003), the researchers were short of lesbian mothers for their investigation, so the researchers approached lesbian friends and acquaintances all from the same location and asked them to fill up the same space. Some primary researchers stated that their finding may not be conclusive, but secondary sources such as the TR have selectively reported these findings as indisputable fact.

Some background studies were funded by the Lesbian Health Fund of the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association, the Equity Foundation's Lesbian Project and other pro-homosexual organizations. Other cases did not take into account extraneous variables or the condition of the homosexual home from which the sample children were taken. In several cases, children from single-parent homes were representatives for norms within heterosexual families. These results are inconclusive, however, because they may be "actually dependent on the father's absence or presence rather than on the mother's sexual orientation."

Many studies investigated very small samples of young children (between 5 and 85 per group) while some of the studies used overlapping or duplicate samples. The majority of the studies did not investigate the harmful, long-term effects of coming from a same-sex marriage household.

Other flaws included broad generalizations, vague definitions, conflicting data, poor classifications of homosexual feelings and relationships and weak use of statistics by relying more on description. Dr. Quick concludes, "The AAP's standard for evidence-based medicine in a technical report is violated by the extent of the misrepresentation of the data, unsupported or misleading statements, and failure to report conflicting evidence contained within the report's own references…the conclusions of the report cannot be trusted and should not be used to define policy."

See the entire analysis by Dr. Quick (39 page pdf document)
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007_docs/Analysisofgayparentingreport.pdf

Related:

Swedish Judge Forbids Lesbian from Adopting Partner’s Child
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/jan/07011008.html

Arkansas High Court Favours Gay Foster Parents
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/jun/06063007.html

A Further Betrayal of Children
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/sep/050929a.html

Same-Sex Parenting is Harmful to Children Says REAL Women of Canada
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2004/apr/040428c.html

The Case Against Same-Sex Marriage
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2004/feb/040223a.html

AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYTIC ASSOCIATION ENDORSES HOMOSEXUAL PARENTING
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2002/may/02052906.html

INVESTIGATION INTO HOMOSEXUAL PARENTING WARNS OF SERIOUS PROBLEMS FOR CHILDREN
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2002/feb/02020503.html
[1 June 07, Iowa, Elizabeth O'Brien, LifeSiteNews.com]

BRITISH DOCS: ABORTION CAUSES MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS, RAISES SUICIDE RISK.  Doctors in England testifying before the British House of Commons said abortion is a serious risk to a woman's mental health and can make her six times more likely to consider committing suicide. The doctors cited medical studies backing up their assertions as they commented on a bill to make the information available to women.
Dr. Trevor Stammers, who practices at St. George's University of London and teaches medicine there, said he supported the measure to make women aware of the risks and dangers associated with abortion.

He said that in 26 years of medical practice, all of which come after Britain legalized abortion in 1967, he has seen numerous women come to him with physical or mental health problems resulting from their abortion.

"The most recent research has shown very clearly that abortion presents a serious risk to the long-term mental health of women and why it is therefore important to know which women are being offered abortion on mental health grounds," he told lawmakers, according to a report in the Evening Standard newspaper.

Dr. Robert Balfour, a consultant gynecologist, agreed with the analysis and pointed to a study of 5,000 women in Finland conducted between 1987 and 2000 showing that those who had an abortion after an unplanned pregnancy were six times more likely to commit suicide than women who carried their baby to term.

The newspaper reported him saying that evidence for mental health problems following an abortion is apparent in his hometown in South Wales.

Balfour indicated that there were more psychiatric admissions and suicides among women who had abortions than those who gave birth.

In October 2006, some fifteen of Great Britain's leading obstetricians and psychiatrists penned an open letter to the London Times acknowledging the psychological consequences of abortions.

Also last year, a university researcher in New Zealand conducted an extensive study on thousands of women and found that 40 percent of those who have abortions suffer from mental health problems following an abortion.

Those problems included depression, addictions to alcohol or drugs, sleep disorders, thoughts of suicide and the problems were much greater than those faced by women who had miscarries or carried their pregnancy to term. [3 June 07, Ertelt, LifeNews.com London, England]

SLAIN INDIA ABORTION PRACTITIONER MADE PORNOGRAPHIC CDS OF PATIENTS. Officials in India are investigating the deaths of an abortion practitioner and his nine year-old daughter. Jayanta Bag was found dead in his home a few days ago and authorities say the deaths could be tied to an illegal pornography ring he was involved in where he took pictures of women on whom he was doing abortions.
India media reported on Tuesday that Bag’s wife Sutapa, brother Sumantra and sister-in-law Madhumita were interrogated by police officials about the matter.
 
They discovered that Bag was making the pornographic CDs with his wife and sister-in-law and they were found being distributed throughout Howrah and Kolkata.
 
Deputy Inspector General Neeraj Narayan Pandey of the CID talked with the Kolkata Newsline about the case.
 
“We are looking into all possible angles of the case, including that involving pornography. This is all I can say at the moment," he said.
 
According to authorities, Bag used his cell phone to take pictures and videos of the women getting the abortions and burned the pictures on a CD for pornography distributors to sell. Police found pictures and CDs in the residence after the deaths were reported.
 
Bag and his daughter Piyasha were found murdered with their throats and wrists slit and Sutapa was critically injured. They were discovered the Bags’ residence at Pailla Village.
 
The abuse of women getting abortions brings to mind cases in the United States where abortion practitioners sexually abused their patients.
 
Arizona abortion practitioner Brian Finkel was charged with more than 60 counts of sexually abusing 35 women. He was accused of fondling women's breasts and inappropriately touching their private parts during examinations and abortions as far back as 1986. In December 2003, a jury found Finkel guilty of 24 counts of sexual abuse. [17April07, Ertelt, #4011, LifeNews.com, Kolkata, India] 
 

FORMER PATIENT SUES PLANNED PARENTHOOD FOR MISDIAGNOSIS AND COVERUP OF CANCER. Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion business, has frequently come under fire for denying the link between abortion and breast cancer. Now a San Diego affiliate is the subject of a multi-million dollar lawsuit for failing to tell a reproductive health patient she had cancer. Former patient Rebecca Glover filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against Planned Parenthood of San Diego and Riverside Counties for allegations that her cervical cancer was misdiagnosed for over a year due to their negligence. In the lawsuit, Glover claims that after performing a pap smear test, Planed Parenthood failed to tell Glover that the results of the tests revealed she had cervical cancer.

The suit also charges that upon realizing its negligence, Planned Parenthood attempted to cover up its mistake by refusing to turn over medical records to Glover and giving her medical treatment she did not need. According to the suit, Glover did not find out about Planned Parenthood's mistake for over a year later. Her cervical cancer had advanced to stage 3. The lawsuit comes on the heels of one filed in mid-June by the mother of 12 year-old Edrica Goode, who died of toxic shock syndrome after having an abortion at PPSDR. The suit alleges Planned Parenthood negligently caused Goode's death by inserting cervical dilators into her despite the fact that Goode had a vaginal infection. Later in June, as LifeNews.com reported, the California Department of Health Services issued a "deficiency" finding Planned Parenthood's actions related to Goode's death. State officials said that "based on medical record reviews and staff interviews, the facility failed to report an unusual death occurrence involving a patient's death within 24 hours to the department." [24July07, San Diego, CA (LifeNews.com]

GOV BLUNT YANKS HEALTH SCREENING MONEY FROM PLANNED PARENTHOOD. Gov Blunt Yanks Some Money from PP Two PP sites were providing free health screenings for poor women through a state program. The governor made the announcement at a Springfield visit to a health center. At Blunt's request, the state Department of Health and Senior Services has ended the contracts with two Planned Parenthood programs in Springfield and Joplin. Two other area organizations -- Jordan Valley Community Health Center and Ozark TriCounty Health Care -- will begin offering the screenings for breast and cervical cancer, Blunt's office said.
 
"Patients should not have to go to an abortion clinic to access lifesaving tests," Blunt said in a written statement.
 
But Planned Parenthood of Southwest Missouri said the clinics that participated in the program have never provided abortions. Blunt spokeswoman Jessica Robinson responded later that "philosophically Planned Parenthood is known as an abortion provider." The state health department said the Springfield clinic received $40,000 last fiscal year and the Joplin clinic got $27,000.
 
Overall, the screening program receives about $3 million in federal money and $70,000 in state funding, with the state share mainly for operational expenses, Blunt's office said.
 
Republican officials and Planned Parenthood have fought for years over funding.
In August, Planned Parenthood affiliates won a roughly $900,000 victory when the Missouri Supreme Court ruled they did not have to repay family planning funds received against the will of the Legislature.
 
The 4-3 ruling capped a legal dispute that spanned several years as anti-abortion lawmakers tried to prevent state grants for family planning and other women's health services from going to affiliates of abortion providers. After gaining control of the Legislature, Republicans eliminated the family planning grants from the 2004 budget and have kept them out.
Blunt also proposed increasing the funding for the health screening program by $500,000.
The Show Me Healthy Women program provided screenings to nearly 8,000 women last year, and Blunt's budget proposal could expand that by 1,225, his office said.
On the Net:
Health Department: http://www.dhss.mo.gov
Planned Parenthood: http://www.plannedparenthood.org
[19March07, Kelly Wiese, AP, JEFFERSON CITY, MO; http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/missouristatenews/story/2641843FACF713F8862572A3006F1035?OpenDocument]

US HUMAN TRAFFICKING REPORT CALLS CANADA "TRANSIT AND DESTINATION" FOR SEXUAL SLAVERY TRADE.  The US State Department has issued its 2007 report on human trafficking and has named four wealthy US Arab allies - Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman and Qatar - as among the worst offenders in failing to act to stop the international trade of human beings.

The report listed Canada as a "tier 1" country, one that complies with the minimum standards of combating the trade. It describes Canada as "principally a transit and destination country" for women and children trafficked, mainly from Asia and Eastern Europe, for commercial sexual exploitation. It noted "some Canadian girls and women are trafficked internally for commercial sexual exploitation".

The State Department estimates that as many as 800,000 people are trafficked over international borders for purposes of labour or sexual exploitation every year. 80 per cent of these are women and girls and as many as half of the total are minors. Sexual exploitation of women and children, both boys and girls, is a prominent and universal feature of the report.

In addition to the four wealthy Arab countries, the report lists Algeria, Equatorial Guinea and Malaysia Cuba, Iran, Myanmar (the former Burma), North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Uzbekistan and Venezuela, all either predominantly Islamic, communist or heavily socialist military states, in the bottom, third tier. In total, 32 countries are named in the third tier. Third tier countries face possible economic sanctions from the US including the loss of US aid and support for World Bank and International Monetary Fund loans.

Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice described the trade as "a modern-day form of slavery." The proposed sanctions are meant to "shame" governments to action. Condoleeza Rice writes, "The power of shame has stirred many to action and sparked unprecedented reforms."

"The growing awareness has prompted important progress in combating this crime and assisting its victims wherever they are found," Rice said.

The report points to the "globalization of markets" and "the concomitant relaxation of travel barriers" as major factors in the flourishing of the new slave trade on a global scale. This globalization of slavery means that no country is immune. It highlights Zambian girls trafficked to Ireland and Philippine women to Cote d'Ivoire, Dominican women to Montenegro, a Kenyan woman to Mexico and Chinese women to Afghanistan for commercial sexual exploitation.

The forms of slavery listed include child soldiers, involuntary domestic servitude and debt bondage, all of which involve sexual exploitation as a matter of course. In the case of child soldiers, the report says, children are recruited mainly in Africa and Asia "through force, fraud, or coercion to be exploited for their labor or to be abused as sex slaves" by "government forces, paramilitary organizations, and rebel groups".

"UNICEF estimates that more than 300,000 children under 18 are currently being exploited in more than 30 armed conflicts worldwide. While the majority of child soldiers are between the ages of 15 and 18, some are as young as 7 or 8 years of age."

The report is punctuated by harrowing first-person descriptions given by women and girls taken from home and forced into sexual slavery. In one, 17 year-old Maryam said she had "dreamed of a better future than her life in Kazakhstan." She was taken from her parents by a man who paid the equivalent of US $300 to take her to Russia to work as a shop girl. When she arrived in Russia, she was detained in a locked cell with armed guards who told her she was to be a prostitute. She said, "I refused by saying that they could do anything they want, but I wouldn't be a prostitute. I was punished for that. I was beaten up, raped, and starved. In five days I gave up."

Another, 23 year-old, Alexia from the Kyrgyz Republic, answered a newspaper advertisement for a Russian-speaking waitress in the United Arab Emirates. She said, "When my plane landed, a man took me to an apartment where I met a dozen other women. I asked them if they all worked at the restaurant as waitresses. They laughed and one said: 'Restaurant? You're not going to work at a restaurant! You'll find out tonight where you are working! I was held in Dubai for six months and prostituted by the traffickers. I met a man from Moscow who helped me to escape to the Kyrgyz Embassy.'"

Read related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
Canada to Tighten Laws Against Sex Trafficking with Proposed Bill Blocking Stripper Visas
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/may/07051805.html

United States Urges Canada to Beef Up Anti-Trafficking Efforts Especially on Exotic Dancer Scandal
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/jun/05060302.html

Young Women Forced into Prostitution in the UK - More Evidence that Prostitution Leads to Sex Slavery
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/oct/05100304.html   [23July07, Hilary White, DC, LifeSiteNews.com]

NEW ARTICLE SPURS CONTROVERSIAL DEBATE ABOUT CRISIS OF GLOBAL HEALTH, FAILURE OF WHO: Special interests and powerful NGOs are said to be causing a decline in global public health.  A recently published article in the prestigious foreign policy journal Foreign Affairs has touched off a heated debate about the way special interests and powerful NGOs are causing a decline in global public health. The article also brings to light the silence of women’s rights groups on the issue of basic maternal and child health care.
 
In her article, “The Challenge of Global Health,” Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) Senior Fellow for Global Health, Laurie Garrett charges big donors like Bill Gates and the Clinton Foundation with flooding developing countries with funding for HIV/AIDS projects that divert attention from basic health problems that face the poor, undermine national public health systems, contribute to a brain drain of qualified health care workers, and fail to achieve results. She also blames lack of oversight and corruption, saying that in some places “an amazing 80 percent of donor funds get diverted from their intended purposes.”
 
Garrett says that the surge in spending on such programs as The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria benefits from high visibility advocacy and means that “the whims of foundations” drive global health. She says that the funding boom has created more than 60,000 AIDS-related NGOs in the rush for dollars, but that the top three killers in developing countries stem from lack of basic health care at childbirth and for pediatric respiratory and intestinal infections.
 
In contrast to the aggressive work of AIDS NGOs, she says, “few women’s rights groups put safe pregnancy near the top of their list of priorities, and there is no dysentery lobby or celebrity attention given to coughing babies.” The result is that in some countries maternal and child health has actually grown worse over the last few years, and that Haiti “actually went backward on every other health indicator.”
 
While agreeing with Garrett’s basic outline of the problem, various global health experts took issue with her prescriptions. Roger Bate, from the American Enterprise Institute, challenged Garrett’s characterization of the World Health Organization (WHO) as “the only organization with the political credibility to compel cooperative thinking.” Bate cited the failure of WHO’s Health for All campaign to improve local health systems due to broad program failures, and called WHO’s “3X5” campaign to bring antiretrovirals to 3 million people by 2005 “ill conceived.” Bate said, “Garrett wants donor interests coordinated by a body with proven competence and she favors WHO for the job. But it is unclear that the WHO is up to such a task, or can even follow through on its own organizational goals.”
 
Conservative UN experts also question the WHO’s credibility on maternal and child health issues since the UN organization has long promoted the view that maternal health is linked to abortion rights. They note that this promotion of the radical women’s rights agenda instead of focusing on basic pre- and post-natal health care is the very problem that Garrett points out is leading to the global health crisis. [3May07, NY, C-FAM; 3May07, LifeSiteNews.com; N Valko RN, 4May07]

THE NATURAL FAMILY WILL BRING “REBIRTH OF SOCIETY” - World Congress on Families Asks Physicians for Help.  The World Congress on Families, which met last week in Warsaw, Poland, announced in its closing declaration that the various threats to the family in Europe are creating a “demographic winter” that can only be healed by the protection and nurturing of the natural family.
 
Love; faithfulness; gift of self as opposed to hedonism; dedication to divine truth in the face of relativism; love for, instead of fear of children; and reverence for human life in the face of discrimination and “extermination of the weakest” are listed by the Congress as among the gifts of the natural family.
 
Healthy natural families are the “natural essence as a community of love and life,” that will bring about the “rebirth of the society.” With plummeting birth rates and aging populations, the Congress said that Europe is facing a “demographic winter”.
 
The fourth World Congress on Families was organized by the Howard Centre for Family, Religion and Society and is starting to be recognized as the leading international congress opposing the “culture of death”.
 
Attendees heard from Margarita Zavala Gomez Del Campo, First Lady of Mexico, who addressed the Congress by letter, writing, “When you protect the family, you are protecting society and the nation.”
 
The First Lady continued, “The topic of protecting the family transcends all because it is in family where we learn the fundamental moral values needed in today's world – solidarity, respect, responsibility, love and forgiveness.”
 
The Chairman of the US Christian Film and Television Commission, Dr. Ted Baehr spoke at the Congress warning that the American movie and TV industry is influencing young people into an anti-family set of values, foreign to most traditional societies such as Poland.
 
Baehr, an award-winning producer, writer, director, radio & TV personality, delivered a presentation titled "Protecting the Eyes of the Innocent: The Culture-wise Family." He said he had been eager to attend the Congress not only because of its support for the traditional family, but because it also applies high levels of research, theology, and philosophy in its defence.
 
In its final declaration, the Congress called for governments to “mainstream the family in public policy,” to “protect every human being from conception to natural death” and to defend the fundamental rights of parents in the upbringing of children.
 
The Congress asked for physicians to defend the right of conscience and to “faithfully safeguard human life” and for journalists to serve truth and “remain objective.”
 Related: Pro-family Leaders at World Congress Present Specific Strategies for Promoting the Family
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/may/07052208.html  [24May07, Hilary White, Warsaw, LifeSiteNews.com]