Are Same-Sex Families Good For Children?
But we must all ask if these changes in our understanding of family are harmless.
Articles within this series
- Overview
- Why Marriage Matters for Children
- Why Children Need Father-Love and Mother-Love, Part 1
- Why Children Need Father-Love and Mother-Love, Part 2
- Are Same-Sex Families Good For Children?
- Next Steps / Related Information
In Massachusetts, you won’t find the words “husband” and “wife” on marriage applications. Clerks of the court performing marriages are instructed to use “party A” and “party B” instead. And it won’t be long before we see “parent A” and “parent B,” rather than “mother” and “father” on birth certificates and adoption records.
But we must all ask if these changes in our understanding of family are harmless. The social sciences have a great deal to say about this, as we will see momentarily. But before we look at what they can tell us, we must start with what they cannot tell us.
Same-sex advocates are quick to assure us that children with same-sex parents are happy and healthy. But is it true? Research tells us no such thing, simply because there is no reliable body of research that compares children being raised in same-sex versus mother/father homes. We are just beginning the same-sex family experiment; therefore there are not significant populations of such families for scientists to observe over long periods of time.
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