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Do kids have the right to a Mum and a Dad?

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This month will see some of the first gay marriage ceremonies in the UK , signalling the belief in many people's mind that the gay marriage debate is over and that those in favour have won out. But American Professor Robert Lopez , founder of the International Children's Rights Institute, believes that a new debate is now just beginning, over the rights and wrongs of gay and lesbian couples adopting children to raise as their own. Christian Concern quoted him as saying: "There is no 'right to a child' or 'right to be a parent' or 'right to adopt', but a child has a natural born right to a mum and dad." He has a particular investment in this issue, having been raised by two women in a lesbian relationship, and he has come to the UK to make his case. Christian Today spoke to him about his beliefs and why he holds them. CT: Why do you feel the need to go as far as to call it a "right" to have a mother and a father figure? RL: It is a

Children of Homosexual parents

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Are children reared by two individuals of the same gender as well adjusted as children reared in families with a mother and a father? Until recently the unequivocal answer to this question was “no.” Within the last decade, however, professional health organizations, 1  academics, social policymakers and the media have begun asserting that prohibitions on parenting by same-sex couples should be lifted. In making such far-reaching, generation-changing assertions, any responsible advocate would rely upon supporting evidence that is comprehensive and conclusive. Not only is this not the situation, but also there is sound evidence that children exposed to the homosexual lifestyle may be at increased risk for emotional, mental, and even physical harm. Biology matters Over thirty years of research confirms that children fare best when reared by their two biological parents in a loving low conflict marriage. Children navigate developmental stages more easily, are more solid in their ge

Warren Entsch supports immoral homosexuality

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English: , Liberal Senator for South Australia (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Liberal MP Warren Entsch attacked Senator Cory Bernardi , saying he obsesses with gay people. Mr Entsch, a former parliamentary secretary and chief opposition whip, said he cringed when he heard the South Australian senator 's latest comments, in a new book by him and in a television interview on Monday, in which he accused some women of using abortion as ''an abhorrent form of birth control'' and railed against ''non-traditional'' family arrangements such as step-families, single-parent families and families with same-sex parents . Mr Entsch obviously appears to be happy when immorality is promoted and babies are aborted in their thousands? He cringes when truth and true moral values are stated. Listen to the logic and attack of a immoral homosexual supporter: Bernardi has an obsession with people that are gay Bernardi would sterilize his own gay child Biolog

Lesbian Marriage and Single Mums: No father transforms children’s brains: Study

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 A new study shows that growing up without a father not only affects behavior – it transforms children's brain structure. That's the verdict reached by the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Center and recently published in the journal  Cerebral Cortex . Researchers studied the behavior and brains of Californian mice who, like humans, are monogamous and raise their children as a unit. Mice separated from their fathers showed greater aggression, anti-social behavior , and “abnormal social interactions” than those raised with both parents. “The behavioral deficits we observed are consistent with human studies of children raised without a father,”  said  Dr. Gabriella Gobbi, the report's lead author. However, more groundbreaking was their finding that the behavior was not the only thing affected by the lack of a father. Mice raised by one parent had a misshapen prefrontal cortex, the  portion of the brain  associated with behavior, decisi

Study identifies gender specific effects in homosexual households

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Gay Couple with child (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) There is a new and significant piece of evidence in the social science debate about gay parenting and the unique contributions that mothers and fathers make to their children’s flourishing. A study published last month in the journal Review of the Economics of the Household—analyzing data from a very large, population-based sample—reveals that the children of gay and lesbian couples are only about 65 percent as likely to have graduated from high school as the children of married, opposite-sex couples. And gender matters, too: girls are more apt to struggle than boys, with daughters of gay parents displaying dramatically low graduation rates. Unlike US-based studies, this one evaluates a 20 percent sample of the Canadian census , where same-sex couples have had access to all taxation and government benefits since 1997 and to marriage since 2005. While in the US Census same-sex households have to be guessed at based on the gender an