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?”
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11620422 |
|---|---|
| Authors | D Paul Sullins (0000-0001-9592-8394, Department of Sociology, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC 20064, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 2375-2383 |
| Publication date | 2017-10-02 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Demography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0070-3370 • E-ISSN: 1533-7790 |
| Publisher | Springer Science+Business Media (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s13524-017-0616-9 |
| PMID | 28971368 |
| OpenAlex | W2764121323 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 4 |
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
Biological sex · Developmental psychology · Same sex · Sample (material · Sociology · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Demography · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2023 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |