Attitudes of Undergraduate Students Towards Same-Sex Couples Adopting

This quasi-experimental design study examines attitudes of 87 undergraduate students in a social science major, towards same-sex couples. The participants were given one of two vignettes describing a couple interested in adopting a 5-year-old child. The vignettes were identical except that the couples orientation was depicted as either a gay male couple or a heterosexual couple. Using t-tests and an ANOVA test for difference in attitude scores, emotional stability of the parents, quality of parenting, whether the participant felt the child would experience physical, sexual, or emotional abuse, and whether the parents would raise the child with morals and values, with a level of .05, no difference was found between the two groups.

Name thesis:degree_name

Family Studies

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Individual, Family, and Community Education

Year

2010

Author dc:creator

• Gaa, Melissa

Contributors dc:contributor

• Olson, Pamela
• Hossain, Ziarat
• Olguin, David
• Smith-Pierce, Susan

• Adoption--United States--Social aspects--Research
• Gay adoption--United States--Social aspects--Research
• College students--Attitudes--Research

Language dc:language

English

Identifier

https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/educ_ifce_etds/39

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalrepository.unm.edu:educ_ifce_etds-1038