Commentary:

Same-Sex Marriage: Not in the Best Interest of Children (May / June 2009 issue of “The Therapist,” a publication of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists—CAMFT)

LGBT Curriculum Coming to an Elementary School near You (May 2009)

Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage Will Increase Prevalence of Homosexuality:
Research Provides Significant Evidence (September 29, 2008)

Pro-Homosexual Researchers Conceal Findings:
Children Raised by Openly Homosexual Parents More Likely to Engage in Homosexuality (June 30, 2008)

A Review and Analysis of Research Studies Which Assessed
Sexual Preference of Children Raised by Homosexuals (June 30, 2008)

Love Isn’t Enough: 5 Reasons Why Same-Sex Marriage Will Harm Children (October 15, 2007)

Perceptions of Evil One Year After 9/11: A Psychological Analysis (September 2002)

Journalists and the Pedophile Smokescreen

Feminist Infantilization and Filicide

The Politics of Rape: Debunking the Feminist Myth

Dissertation:

An Investigation of Object Relations, Reality Testing, Erotophobia, and Defenses in Mothers of Incest Victims (1996)

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Abstract

Although the incest literature tends to view incest within a familial context, most of the empirical research has focused on the perpetrating father and the victimized daughter. Moreover, descriptions of the incest mother have generally been derived from clinical observations and a small number of case studies. The present study, therefore, attempted to empirically investigate the psychological characteristics of incest mothers to statistically differentiate them from a matched comparison group. It was hoped an empirically based psychological study of the incest mother would abet a more thorough understanding of the totality of familial dynamics that bring the Oedipal fantasy to life.

Twenty-nine women whose daughters had been molested by the girls’ biological father before the age of 12 were compared to a matched comparison group of mothers of daughters who had not been molested by their biological fathers. The psychological measures used were the Bell Object Relations and Reality Testing Inventory, the Sexual Opinion Survey, and the Defensive Style Questionnaire.

A Multivariate Analysis of Variance was used to compare the two groups of mothers. The primary hypothesis predicted that a composite variable consisting of level of object relations, degree of reality testing, degree of erotophobia, and the use of maladaptive-action defenses, image distorting defenses, self-sacrificing defenses, and adaptive defenses would significantly differentiate incest from non-incest mothers. This prediction was supported with 52% of the variability being accounted for by group membership, indicating a large effect.

The secondary hypotheses attempted to sort out which specific qualities significantly differentiated the two groups of mothers. Incest mothers were found to be significantly different from non-incest mothers in their levels of object relations, their degree of reality testing, and their use of maladaptive-action and image distorting defenses. The two groups of mothers were not found to be significantly different in their degree of erotophobia or their use of self-sacrificing and adaptive defenses. Moreover, the psychological patterns identified in both the primary and secondary hypotheses remained consistent even when the mothers’ own sexual abuse histories were taken into account.

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