Scientific consensus,the law,and same sex parenting outcomes |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Health & Behavioral Sciences, University of Colorado Denver, Campus Box 188, PO Box 173364, Denver, CO 80217-3364, United States;2. Department of Sociology, University of Oregon, 1291 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, United States;1. Department of Sociology, New York University, 295 Lafayette St., 4th Floor, New York, NY 10012, United States;2. Department of Sociology, Brown University, Box 1916, Providence, RI 02912, United States;1. WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Germany;2. University of Cologne, Germany;1. Dynamique du Langage, University of Lyon, France;2. Laboratory for Comparative Social Science Research, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russian Federation;3. Departments of Psychology and Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis, United States;1. New York University, United States;2. University of California, Berkeley, United States;3. University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, United States |
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| Abstract: | While the US Supreme Court was considering two related cases involving the constitutionality of same-sex marriage, one major question informing that decision was whether scientific research had achieved consensus regarding how children of same-sex couples fare. Determining the extent of consensus has become a key aspect of how social science evidence and testimony is accepted by the courts. Here, we show how a method of analyzing temporal patterns in citation networks can be used to assess the state of social scientific literature as a means to inform just such a question. Patterns of clustering within these citation networks reveal whether and when consensus arises within a scientific field. We find that the literature on outcomes for children of same-sex parents is marked by scientific consensus that they experience “no differences” compared to children from other parental configurations. |
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| Keywords: | Same-sex parents Scientific consensus Citation networks Sociology of law Same-sex unions |
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