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WEDNESDAY, July 18, 2018 (HealthDay News) — Mental health does not differ significantly between offspring with sexual minority parents from the community-based National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study (NLLFS) and a matched normative population-based sample, according to a research letter published in the July 19 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Nanette Gartrell, M.D., from the Williams Institute in Los Angeles, and colleagues examined mental health status in adult offspring with sexual minority parents. The standardized Achenbach Adult Self-Report was administered to assess the psychological health of 77 index offspring from the community-based NLLFS; the sample was matched with the Achenbach normative sample of 77 U.S. persons with respect to age, sex, race or ethnic background, and educational level.<\/p>\n
On comparison of the NLLFS sample and the matched Achenbach normative sample, the researchers found that there were no significant between-group differences with respect to adaptive functioning, behavioral or emotional problems, scores on mental health diagnostic scales, or the percentage of participants with a score in the borderline or clinical range.<\/p>\n
“In a large, prospective study involving 25-year-olds with sexual-minority parents, there were no significant differences in measures of mental health between those who were conceived through donor insemination and enrolled before they were born and those in a U.S. population-based normative sample,” the authors write.<\/p>\n