Due to misinformation, lack of open discussions, and unequal treatment of LGBTQIA identifying individuals, there has many several misconceptions about how parents who are queer will negatively affect their children's upbringing and adjustment. However, none of these misconceptions on how queer parents will negatively affect their children is true or accurate, as credible evidence has not been found. 

An example of research that has attempted to examine whether the children of lesbian and gay parents are themselves more likely to identify as lesbian and gay was conducted in 2001.

• In a 2001 review of 21 studies, Judith Stacey and Timothy Biblarz found that researchers frequently downplay findings indicating difference regarding children's gender, sexual preferences and behavior, suggesting that an environment of heterosexism has hampered scientific inquiry in the area. Their findings indicate that the children with lesbian or gay parents appear less traditionally gender-typed and are more likely to be open to homoerotic relationships, which may be partly due to genetic or family socialization processes or "contextual effects," even though children raised by same-sex couples are not more likely to self-identify as bisexual, lesbian, or gay and most of them identify as heterosexual.[1] 

• According to US Census, 80% of the children being raised by same-sex couples in US are their biological children.[2] 

• When it comes to family socialization processes and "contextual effects," Stacey and Biblarz point out that children with such parents are disproportionately more likely to grow up in relatively more tolerant school, neighborhood, and social contexts, which are less heterosexist.[1]