Kalley Yanta explains:
"The overwhelming body of scientific evidence establishes beyond a reasonable doubt that children do best when they are raised by their married mother and father. In fact when their parents are married to each other children are more likely to enjoy better relationships with their parents and greater family stability, they enjoy better physical health and experience fewer mental health and emotional problems."
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Love it. Only confirms what most people understand about childhood development.
Men and Women each provide something unique to their children that two people of the same gender do not.
Our future rests with healthy and strong families, not in same-sex unions.
“The over whelming body of scientific evidence establishes beyond reasonable - debate - that children do best when they're raised by their mother and father.”
A debate between Brian Brown and Dan Savage can be civil, but it cannot be reasonable.
This whole debate of same-sex “marriage” can be civil, but its fundamentally unreasonable.
Man-man is fundamentally different than man-woman, and this fact must be clearly signaled out to our children.
Let us rather debate whether the sun comes out during the day or during the night.
What is missing here is the realization that children do well in a stable family environment. SSM can and does provide that stability as well as man-woman- all studies that have compared stable same-sex parenting with stable mw parenting have shown this to be true. In fact, during the Prop 8 trial the witness for admitted that SSM would be good for kids in those families- for all the reasons that nomies bring up here.
"Those who want to redefine marriage seem intent on attempting to make marriage a political issue, but marriage is not political at all. And neither is what's best for kids...simply stated, kids deserve and mom and a dad."
Brilliant !
Richard writes: "all studies that have compared stable same-sex parenting with stable mw parenting have shown this to be true"
But the amount of data available to make this comparison is statistically under-sampled. The reality is there's hardly any pertinent data. Sociological conclusions are not made based on two data points.
Asking same-sex couples what they think about this, is no scientific procedure.
Both a man & woman are responsible for their offspring. Marriage supports this and provides kids w/both father and mother, as is their right. No missing family members.
Family structures that don't provide for mother and father must be strongly discouraged by the state. We need to look no farther than our own common sense.
Good News wrote, "Man-man is fundamentally different than man-woman."
This makes the term "marriage equality" nothing more than a clever soundbite.
"Equality" sounds good, but homosexuals have as much right to get married as heterosexuals -- subject to the same constraints. You can't marry if you're already married. You can't marry a sibling, or a child (without the parents' permission) -- and yes, of course, you can't "marry" a member of the same sex (because that doesn't even fit the definition of marriage).
We can treat different things differently -- but in this case, we treat homosexuals equally.
Richard wrote,
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> What is missing here is the realization that children do well in a stable family environment.
Children do best when raised by their married mothers and fathers.
> SSM can and does provide that stability as well as man-woman- all studies that have compared stable same-sex parenting with stable mw parenting have shown this to be true.<
"But as Professor Loren Marks of Louisiana State University points out in his own separate contribution in the latest issue of Social Science Research, the studies on which these claims have been based are all seriously flawed. Marks demonstrates that they have defects respecting 'sample size, sampling strategy, statistical power, and effect sizes'—and in general that they lack methodological rigor."
http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2012/06/5634?utm_source=RTA+Franck+NFSS&utm_campaign=email&utm_medium=email
Children benefit in every way imaginable and in every area of life when born to and raised by their married biological parents.
Okay, shall we ban people with children from getting divorced?
arensb asked, "Okay, shall we ban people with children from getting divorced?"
Divorce is one more reason we should be strengthening marriage, not conducting radical social experiments on it.
I think the widespread adoption of "quickie divorce" was a huge blow to marriage, families, and children in this nation.
One benefit of the assault upon marriage's very essence, by the same sex marriage movement, has been the rapid growth of a true pro-marriage, pro-family, pro-children movement in this country.
NOM is an excellent example of this.
It is my hope that, as the battle over same sex marriage shifts over the next year or so from an electoral to an exclusively legal battle (same sex marriage has completely failed at the electoral level), this movement can assert more of its influence in directing the conversation toward an examination of the "quickie divorce" fiasco, and how it opened the door to innumerable evils, most especially including same sex "marriage".
@arensb,
"Okay, shall we ban people with children from getting divorced?"
At least you are willing to admit that changing the meaning of what it is to be married is as horrendous an assault on the family as no-fault-divorce has proven itself to be.