“Gay-adopted” children may be placed in vulnerable family situations, suggests a new report released amid an on-going debate over whether homosexuals experience shortened life spans.

Psychologists and conservative scientists who analyzed the life spans and census registries from Denmark and Norway found that gay couples lived about 24 years less than heterosexual couples. 

The findings suggest that the children of same-sex couples are placed in vulnerable situations as they are more likely to experience the death of one or both parents earlier on in life than they would with a married mother and father