We’ve focused a lot in the
past on how children who are raised in families with gay and lesbian parents
don’t have any differences then those children raised by straight parents; in
some cases, it seemed that they did better academically and developmentally
than their counterparts. But how do the
children of gay and lesbian parents deal with questions about their family
structure in their day to day lives? In a study presented
last month at an annual meeting of the American Psychological Association,
findings were presented about how these children handle their experiences with
what researches call “microaggression” from their peers, looking at how they
discuss the issue and whether it is used to tease or bully them at school or
other extracurricular activities. Dr. Rachel Farr, an
assistant professor in Developmental Psychology at the University of Kentucky,
has been following gay and lesbian families with adopted children and joins us
today to talk about her findings.
How much is the degrading of our land and what is known as the "ecosystem services" they provide us? If the degradation continues, how many millions of migrants is it likely to create in the coming decade? Yesterday, a report by the Economics of Land Degradation Initiative was released putting a monetary value on how costly a mistake over-farming and pollution is costing us and what solutions may help in sustaining the land. Dr. Zafar Adeel, director of the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment, and Health, join us today to discuss the findings.
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