Watching a political debate on gay adoption, and the anti guy just cited an American government study showing that marriage was the safest form of family for raising children.
Anyone know what he meant?
Probably that his statistics show that more of the children at risk come from circumstances different than 2-married-parent households … but, that may include single-parent or absent-parent households who are under other risk factors (underage, poverty, unemployment, death of primary wage-earner, breakup caused by domestic violence, etc.) and not anything specifically gender-determined.
He and people of his ilk will do their best to marginalize, restrict, criminalize, preserve or enable discrimination against, and otherwise make life shorter and more miserable for unmarried folks trying to raise children?
Either that or he’s coming out in favor of gay marriage for the sake of the children.
Which one sounds crazier to you?
I’m sure there are studies showing that children of stable, loving, two-parent families perform better on any metric you want to measure. Of course, that says nothing about the difference between same-sex and opposite-sex parental units, since the same-sex families are literally unable to provide the same level of legal stability to make a fair comparison. Only people who are really squicked out by the gay can even attempt to argue that having two mommies or daddies is worse than one or zero parents. And if you understand that adult-directed sexuality is completely separate from pedophilia, you can imagine how two gay parents could be better than a seemingly normal family.
The religious right anti-gay crusade in the US has been known to falsify or simply invent stuff for a long time to support their stance, so I wouldn’t believe them if they said that the sky is blue*.
Also, I bet there are tons of studies that child abuse - molestation and beatings, and emotional neglect - are far more common and thus likely in standard marriages, simply because these are the most widespread.
I also don’t believe that assertion because, as every family social worker or psychologist will tell you, just because a family looks happy middle-class wholesome American on the outside, doesn’t mean there isn’t a ton of tragedy and problems going on behind closed doors; but the conservative hypocrites act as if only single-mothers in the ghettos are bad for raising children, or only poor working fathers drink so much they beat their children bloody, when in reality, parents of all classes beat their children, and people of all classes are alcoholics.
Likewise, while studies show that children generally suffer from a divorce, in individual cases children can also profit from being seperated from a bad parent. And interestingly, I’ve never heard of studies on how bad or good it is for children to stay together for their sake (although psychologists generally say it’s a bad idea, because children will feel that things are wrong, and get a false impression of what love is.
- Apart from the fact that the sky really isn’t blue, it’s black and only appears blue due to interference, to get the nitpicks out of the way.