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Using U.S. census data to conduct the first nationally-representative examination of the outcomes of children with same-sex parents, a new study by Stanford University Associate Professor of Sociology Michael Rosenfeld has found that children of same-sex parents to just as well in school as children of opposite-sex parents:

Heterosexual married couples are the most economically prosperous, the most likely to be white, and the most legally advantaged type of parents. When one controls for parental SES and characteristics of the students, children of same-sex couples cannot be distinguished with statistical certainty from children of heterosexual married couples.

Rosenfeld also found that children living in family homes fare much better in school than children living in foster care.

Lawyer Nan Hunter writes, “These findings have enormous potential to make important evidentiary contributions in marriage challenges, family law cases, and challenges to laws that bar same-sex couples from adopting.”

h/t Mombian.