Running Head: RELIGION AND ATTITUDES TOWARD SAME-SEX PARENTING

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Copyright Year	2018
Abstract	The opening up of marriage to same-sex couples and same-sex parenting are controversial subjects in many countries. This study carried out in France amongst 1861 heterosexual students examined the effects of gender, access option to parenting, religious affiliation (Catholic vs. without religious affiliation participants) and religiosity (in Catholic participants) on attitudes to same-sex parenting. The participants ranged in age from 18 to 66 (M = 22.27, SD = 5.20), 67% were women, 31% described themselves as Catholic and 69% as without religious affiliation. The results based on Generalized Estimating Equation analyses indicate that women were more favorable to same-sex parenting than men, and that participants, whatever their religious affiliation, revealed an attachment to the traditional twoparent families model without medical intervention in reproduction: adoption by same-sex couples was preferred to all other methods of access to parenting, while surrogacy received the lowest support. Moreover, Catholic participants were less favorable to same-sex parenting than participants without religious affiliation, and the reluctance of the former was intensified by a high level of religiosity. Religiosity seems to play a major role in attitudes to same-sex parenting inasmuch as its effect is not moderated by the gender of Catholic participants.
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Language	English
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