Citation

Regnerus M. Soc. Sci. Res. 2012; 41(4): 786-787.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.ssresearch.2012.05.003

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

I had hoped that my words in response to those of Paul Amato, David Eggebeen, and Cynthia Osborne could be few, and after digesting their comments, I am content to be brief. Each voices confidence in what the New Family Structures Study (NFSS) is and can do, and expresses appropriate concern that readers remain aware of what it cannot do. I conveyed similar sentiment in the manuscript itself, and need only echo theirs here. I recognize, with Paul and Cynthia, that organizations may utilize these findings to press a political program. And I concur with them that that is not what data come prepared to do. Paul offers wise words of caution against it, as did I in the body of the text. Implying causation here--to parental sexual orientation or anything else, for that matter--is a bridge too far.