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By Sven Trenholm, published 26/9/2017The balance of evidence from the strongest research, with large representative sampling, does not support same-sex parenting.
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I think you are stretching things a little here, to no useful purpose.
A very common argument put forward by the "No" camp is that same sex marriages would specifically deprive children of parenting by one or another gender. So does life, all too often. Gay partnerships happen too, "banning" them on the basis that children will lack a certain type of parent will not solve the problem of fatherless or motherless children. They are not orphans at all till they lose both parents.
I do not propose that gay parents are "needed. I'm stating as documented fact that they are doing so now anyway. Their children might be step children to one partner (common in many families), Their children may be adopted, they might have taken on the children of close relatives now deceased or unable. What of it?
Banning gays from marrying does nothing to address children lacking a specific sex parent in the greater community. Legalising it may provide greater stability in those instances where it is already happening, and in future instances that are likely to occur at a similar rate as present.
Too many children are currently successfully raised by non-biological parents for your quibble to matter. Gays may *be* the extended family and entirely as eligible and fit as any others to fill the role. Pretending they cannot and will not is not meaningful when they can and do. All it can do is artificially limit recognition and services that might otherwise help, hardly a noble goal.