Although numerous studies have examined how children raised in same-sex-parented families fare relative to children in different-sex-parented families, this body of work suffers from major methodological shortcomings. By leveraging linked administrative data from several population registers from the Netherlands covering the 2006-2018 period (n = 1,454,577), we overcome most methodological limitations affecting earlier research. The unique features of the data include complete population coverage, reliable identification of same-sex-parented families, a large number of children in same-sex-parented families (n = 3,006), multiple objective and verifiable educational outcomes, and detailed measures of family dynamics over children's entire life courses. The results indicate that children in same-sex-parented families outperform children in different-sex-parented families on multiple indicators of academic performance, including standardized tests scores, high school graduation rates, and college enrollment. Such advantages extend to both male and female children, and are more pronounced among children in female than male same-sex-parented families. These findings challenge deficit models of same-sex parenting.

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同性和异性父母家庭中儿童的学业成就：来自荷兰的相关行政数据的人口水平分析。

尽管许多研究已经检验了同性父母家庭中抚养的孩子相对于异性父母家庭中的孩子的票价如何，但这项工作存在方法学上的主要缺陷。通过利用来自荷兰的多个人口登记系统（涵盖2006-2018年）的相关行政数据（n = 1,454,577），我们克服了影响早期研究的大多数方法学局限性。数据的独特特征包括完整的人口覆盖范围，对同性父母家庭的可靠识别，在同性父母家庭中的大量儿童（n = 3,006），多目标和可验证的教育成果以及对儿童的详细测量儿童一生中的家庭动态。结果表明，在包括标准化考试成绩，高中毕业率和大学入学率在内的多项学习成绩指标上，同性父母家庭的孩子优于异性父母家庭的孩子。这种优势不仅适用于男性和女性儿童，而且在女性儿童中也比男性同性父母家庭更为明显。这些发现挑战了同性育儿的缺陷模型。