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The American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds) is a socially conservative association of pediatricians and other healthcare professionals in the United States. The College was founded in 2002 by a group of pediatricians including Joseph Zanga, a past president of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), as a protest against the AAP's support for adoption by gay couples.〔 The group's membership has been estimated at between 60 and 200 members.〔 ACPeds describes itself as "a national organization of pediatricians and other healthcare professionals dedicated to the health and well-being of children... committed to fulfilling its mission by producing sound policy, based upon the best available research, to assist parents and to influence society in the endeavor of childrearing."〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = American College of Pediatricians )〕 Zanga has described ACPeds as a group "with Judeo-Christian, traditional values that is open to pediatric medical professionals of all religions who hold true to the group's core beliefs: that life begins at conception; and that the traditional family unit, headed by a different-sex couple, poses far fewer risk factors in the adoption and raising of children."〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Pro-Life Pediatric Group Stands Contrary to the American Academy of Pediatrics )〕 The organization's view on parenting is at odds with the position of the American Academy of Pediatrics, which hold that homosexual behavior has no correlation with the ability to be a good parent and to raise healthy and well-adjusted children. == Positions == The positions taken by the American College of Pediatricians are socially conservative. The organization advocates:〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = American College of Pediatricians ) (self-published)〕 * Discouraging the adoption of children by same-sex couples or single parents; * Limiting children's exposure to electronic media, particularly in relation to explicit violent and sexual content; * Parental choice as to when and whether a child receives the HPV vaccine. ACPeds opposes legislation requiring HPV vaccination; * Opposition to marijuana legalization; * Support for selective parental use of disciplinary spanking in child discipline; * Opposition to abortion and euthanasia; * Opposition to gender reassignment, including the use of puberty blockers; * Support for abstinence until marriage sex education rather than comprehensive sex education, based on “the public health principle of primary prevention – risk avoidance in lieu of risk reduction,” 〔http://www.acpeds.org/the-college-speaks/position-statements/sexuality-issues/abstinence-education〕 The American College of Pediatricians argues that mainstream health organizations have taken public positions based on their own social and political views, rather than the available science.〔(【引用サイトリンク】A Brief History of the American College of Pediatricians ) (self-published)〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「American College of Pediatricians」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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