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Government creating a fatherless society : Comments
By Warwick Marsh, published 15/3/2012Taxpayer funding for those who want to send the laws of nature into free fall.
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Parents who find themselves without an opposite-sex partner are not dooming either themselves or their children to a squishy end. But they do have to ensure the family has the parachute of regular engagement with adult role models - of both genders - to support the single parent or same-sex parents with nurturing.
The good news is that the most authoritative research shows that children of same-sex parents actually do as well as kids with opposite-sex parents on some scores of developmental outcomes, and significantly better on others.
This may be a result of same-sex parents being aware they are in a minority, are pioneers, and hence are under scrutiny. So maybe when same-sex parents are accepted as normal and the pressure is off, test results will even out.
But for now, you cannot argue that children in unorthodox families will inevitably be disadvantaged. The evidence is the opposite.
For example, from the American Academy of Pediatrics. There are others. Just google same-sex parenting, then weed out those studies with a barrow to push, either pro-LGBT or anti.
And for quick snapshot, here is an impressive 3-minute eye-opener:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSQQK2Vuf9Q
So let's celebrate gravity rather than fearing or loathing it. That descent from the skyscraper can be not only perfectly safe, but quite exhilarating as well.