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Sample Errors Call Into Question Conclusions Regarding Same-Sex Married Parents: A Comment on "Family Structure and Child Health: Does the Sex Composition of Parents Matter?".
- Source :
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Demography (Springer Nature) . Dec2017, Vol. 54 Issue 6, p2375-2383. 9p. 4 Charts. - Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- Because of classification errors reported by the National Center for Health Statistics, an estimated 42 % of the same-sex married partners in the sample for this study are misclassified different-sex married partners, thus calling into question findings regarding same-sex married parents. Including biological parentage as a control variable suppresses same-sex/different-sex differences, thus obscuring the data error. Parentage is not appropriate as a control because it correlates nearly perfectly (+.97, gamma) with the same-sex/different-sex distinction and is invariant for the category of joint biological parents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00703370
- Volume :
- 54
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Demography (Springer Nature)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 126418618
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-017-0616-9