Same Sex Same Kids, Face Blindness, Paid Sick Leave

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🗓️ 5 April 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Today you’ll learn about how children raised by same sex couples are just as psychologically healthy as other kids, how face blindness might be way more common than we think, and how paid sick leave is now scientifically proven to benefit both businesses and employees.

Same Sex Same Kids

“Children of same-sex couples fare at least as well as in other families - study.” By Nicola Davis. 2023
- https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/mar/06/children-of-same-sex-couples-fare-at-least-as-well-as-in-other-families-study
“Children raised by same-sex parents do as well as their peers, study shows.” by Anne Davies. 2017.
- https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/oct/23/children-raised-by-same-sex-parents-do-as-well-as-their-peers-study-shows
“Family outcome disparities between sexual minority and heterosexual families: a systematic review and meta-analysis.” By Yun Zhang, et al. 2023
- https://gh.bmj.com/content/8/3/e010556
“Kids Raised By Same-Sex Parents Fare Same As - Or Better Than - Kids Of Straight Couples, Research Finds.” By Robert Hart. 2023.
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthart/2023/03/06/kids-raised-by-same-sex-parents-fare-same-as-or-better-than-kids-of-straight-couples-research-finds/?sh=4fa01ad77738

Face Blindness

“How Common Is Face Blindness?” by Dennis Nealon
- https://hms.harvard.edu/news/how-common-face-blindness
“What is the prevalence of developmental prosopagnosia? An empirical assessment of different diagnostic cutoffs” by Joseph DeGutis
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0010945223000138?via%3Dihub
“Prosopagnosia (face blindness)” by NHS
- https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/face-blindness/#:~:text=There's%20no%20treatment%20for%20prosopagnosia,do%20to%20help%20recognise%20people.

Paid Sick Leave

“NEW STUDY FINDS OFFERING PAID SICK LEAVE IS GOOD FOR U.S. BUSINESS” BY GISELE GALOUSTIAN
- https://www.fau.edu/newsdesk/articles/paid-sick-leave-business-study
“Is paid sick leave bad for business? A systematic review” by Candice Vander Weerdt, Patricia Stoddard‐Dare, and LeaAnne DeRigne
- https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ajim.23469
“What is presenteeism? The price of productivity loss” by Lauren Payne
- https://www.enhesa.com/resources/article/what-is-presenteeism-the-price-of-productivity-loss/#:~:text=The%20cost%20of%20presenteeism%20for%20companies&text=An%20American%20Productivity%20Audit%20estimates,billion%20US%20dollars%20per%20year.
“Presenteeism: At Work—But Out of It” by Paul Hemp
- https://hbr.org/2004/10/presenteeism-at-work-but-out-of-it

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0:00.0	Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Discovery.
0:08.5	Time flies when you learn in super cool stuff.
0:10.5	I'm Nate.
0:11.5	And I'm Callie. If you're dropping in for the first time
0:13.4	Welcome to Curiosity where we aim to blow your mind by helping you to grow your mind.
0:17.3	If you're loyal listener, welcome back. Today you'll learn about how children raised by same-sex couples are just as psychologically healthy as other kids,
0:25.2	how face blindness might be way more common than we think, and how paid sick leave is now
0:29.9	scientifically proven to benefit both businesses and employees.
0:34.0	Without further ado, let's satisfy some curiosity.
0:37.3	All right, so a new study by BMJ Global Health
0:40.1	has found that children of same-sex couples develop just as well and in some cases even better
0:45.1	than their friends from heterosexual households.
0:47.5	Ooh, okay, this is interesting. I personally and anecdotally I would think that seems kind of obvious,
0:52.4	but it's always good to have science
0:54.6	to back up what's an opinion.
0:56.3	Exactly and I completely agree with you this feels pretty obvious but according to the
1:01.4	Census Bureau there are around 1.2 million same-sex
1:04.5	couple households in the United States as of 2021 and around 15% of those
1:09.2	households have children that's a lot of kids. That is a lot of kids.
1:14.0	And it's not just a big deal because we all want kids to do well,
1:18.0	but also because same-sex households are a relatively new phenomenon
1:22.0	due to an increase in LGBT-plus rights over the last century.
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