Did your father have sisters?

Oh for goodness sakes Josephus, you are really clutching at straws now!

I would imagine that your stand on 2parent families wouldn't sit well with all those families left without a father or mother after the World Wars, who had to bring up their children alone, and did a good job at it.

Hi Fr Joe, I had a sister, Sister Mary in the third grade. Sister Mary liked to belt little boys with a leather strap, and pull little girls long hair. is that the kind of Sister you are talking about? LOL

Only the union of male and female genome constitutes the full capacity to produce another human in their likeness.
Were those children of the war adopted by a mother and father or a single parent without opposite sex siblings? Why do we now have domestic violence and so many single mums? Of course they were well raised - not likely.

Josephus,

From its origins as a form of trade and a method of forming alliances between families, marriage has always been a social construct, not a biological one.

I support traditional marriage because my daughter is worth at least a goat and two oxen. Today's so-called "conservatives" are a bunch of wets who have caved to the demands of progressives.

I don't know the background on this paper to make any comment on it's potential biases but an interesting read on the role of the Catholic Church in the Republic of Ireland at http://publish.ucc.ie/ijpp/2010/01/moran/01/en

R0bert