Gay Marriage And Parenting: The Effects Of Gay Families On Children
In recent years society is more open to the concept of accept gay marriage and parenting as a healthy, normal family structure. Critics of the model focus on the effects of gay families on children. Religion argues that it is unnatural for two same sex individuals to raise children as a family. Conservatives and traditionalists worry "gay genes" will be passed along blood lines or instilled in adoptive children. Still others wrongfully assume that homosexual parents are child molesters in the making. These criticisms cast a shadow on the special bonds felt between children and their homosexual parents. The twenty-first century has seen leaps and bounds for homosexual couples who wish to have children. Test tube babies, surrogate mothers,