According to this news story in US News and World Report, USNews.com: more and more American children are growing up with same-sex parents. Gay families have arrived in suburban America, in small-town America, in Bible Belt America–in all corners of the country. According to the latest census data, there are now more than 160,000 families with two gay parents and roughly a quarter of a million children spread across some 96 percent of U.S. counties. That’s not counting the kids being raised by single gay parents, whose numbers are likely much higher–upwards of a million, by most estimates, though such households aren’t tracked.
This week, the commonwealth of Massachusetts will recharge the gay-marriage debate by becoming the first state to offer marriage licenses to same-sex couples. The move has raised the ire of conservatives who believe gay marriage tears at the fabric of society–and earned support from progressives who think gay men and lesbians deserve the same rights as heterosexuals. But the controversy is not simply over the bond between two men or two women; it’s about the very nature of the American family.
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“More and more American children are growing up with same-sex parents”
We as a nation should and must be much more concerned about the violence and abuse within families and expend less of our energy and concern about children within a same sex parents household, we now understand that love is a biological need, and love, affection and nurture is what children need. Just who has the right to tell anyone who they may or may not love, live with and have children with as long as the children are loved. Yes, “Hate is not a family value” Remember that hate destroys the fabric of the american family, not gay parents.
I agree whole heartedly with the comment from lina a schimmel. I cannot understand what people are so scared about. I am from Australia and we have a extremely closed minded prime minister and politicians. Homosexuals becomming parents is just another way of parenting. There may be less relationship breakups. How long will it be before people all over realise that homosexuals deserve the same right as anyone to have children and to raise them. Why do we have to single these people out ans say homosexuals we need to not focus on their sexual preference we need to focus on children. How many children that are currently in foster homes or orphanages who could be placed in a loving home? It takes an enourmous amount of negative energy to hate a person, it is simpler nd positive to show kindness and love to our fellow people on this planet earth. We need to accept “difference” so we as a world can grow and progress. How boring life is at the moment. Who will we hate today, what a waste of time.
You fail to look at this through the eyes of established psychological principles. We understand that children naturally model the behavior of the adults in their homes.
four dozen studies cited by the AAP are in error because researchers failed to use control groups, used self-selected volunteers, and relied on nonrandom samples. research supportive of gay parenting shows a tendency toward “extravagant claims” from sympathetic researchers. “Any critical evaluation or examination of the work… is apt to invoke furious reflex accusations about homophobia.”
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