By Susan Berry, Ph.D., Catholic Vote - A 2012 study that drew a firestorm over its conclusion that children of parents in same-sex relationships fared worse on various social and emotional outcome variables compared with those in other family structure types has now been vindicated... Univ. of Texas at Austin sociologist Mark Regnerus, who conducted the highly disputed study, wrote that, “[w]hen compared with children who grew up in biologically (still) intact, mother-father families, the children of women who reported a same-sex relationship look markedly different on numerous outcomes, including many that are obviously suboptimal (such as education, depression, employment status, or marijuana use).”