Batalina: if the choice is between a same-sex family and an orphanage, then definitely an orphanage
Children adopted by same-sex couples have much more psychological problems than others, Olga Batalina, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Family, Women and Children, said in an interview with the Russian News Service . This is stated in one American study, the deputy said. Thus, according to Batalina, 24% of adolescent children from same-sex families planned suicide. In ordinary families there are no more than 5% of such children, she said.