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Gay Couple with child (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Single-parenting and divorce have always been understood as a breakdown of the married mom and dad ideal, but the demand to view same-sex parenting as “normal” imposes a silence on children about the wound caused by the loss of one parent or the other. Emotional abuse can be as bad as physical abuse. Any young person who’s heard the words, “I wish you were never born,” understands that adults can inflict tremendous damage on their dependents without leaving the slightest bruise. One of the worst parts of abuse is society’s refusal to see the injustice. Emotional abuse is particularly difficult because it is invisible and therefore ripe for denial. It is worse still to feel “abandoned” by a community that views the cruelty inside a child’s home and does nothing. When told by everyone in the vicinity that what’s happening is normal and no cause to be aggrieved (even worse, a reason to be grateful), the natural instinct of the child i...

Image via Wikipedia Given the marital relationship’s natural orientation to  children , it is not surprising that, according to the best  available sociological evidence, children fare best on  virtually every indicator of well-being when reared by  their wedded biological parents .  Studies that allow for  other relevant factors, including poverty and even  genetics, suggest that children reared in intact homes fare  best on the following measures:  Educational achievement: literacy and graduation  rates ;  Emotional health : rates of anxiety, depression,  substance abuse, and suicide;  Familial and sexual development : strong sense of  identity, timing of onset of puberty, rates of teen  and out‐of‐wedlock pregnancy, and rates of sexual  abuse; and  Child and adult behaviour: rates of aggression,  attention deficit disorder, delinquency, and  incarceration.  1 The bodily union ...