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If Gay Marriage is approved More children would grow up fatherless.

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Cover via Amazon This harm is closely related to the previous one, but worth noting separately. As more children grow up without a married mother and father, they will be deprived of the tangible and intangible benefits and security that come from that family structure. However, most of those who live with only one biological parent will live with their mothers. In the general population, 79% of single-parent households are headed by the mother, compared to only 10% which are headed by the father.52 Among homosexual couples, as identified in the 2000 census, 34% of lesbian couples have children living at home, while only 22% of male couples were raising children.53 The encouragement of homosexual relationships that is intrinsic in the legalization of same-sex “marriage” would thus result in an increase in the number of children who suffer a specific set of negative consequences that are clearly associated with fatherlessness. Homosexual activists say that having both a mother and a...

ABC Online and DRUM promote Homosexuality

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Image via Wikipedia Author: M. Devine  The fact that Penny Wong ’s female partner is to have a baby is a cause for private celebration for them. But why are so many people exhorting the rest of us to celebrate as if this were some major milestone in human civilisation? You’d think no politician had ever had a child before. We are supposed to ignore Tony and Margie Abbott’s three daughters because every time he is seen with them it is some sort of unfair snub to Julia Gillard and reflection on her marital status. The traditional heterosexual norm of a nuclear family and children is something to be kept in a closet like an embarrassment. Tolerance has gone back to front. It is no longer good enough to accept without criticism female politicians in de facto or lesbian relationships. Now we have to downplay traditional marriage for fear of causing offence. No one can be a wife or husband any more. Everyone is a “partner”. The unorthodox situation of a lesbian artificial...

Children need normal marriage not gay marriage

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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 ...

Same-sex adoptions spells abuse

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Image via Wikipedia Author: Bill Meuhlenberg The push for same-sex parenting rights is constantly on the boil. Right now the New South Wales government hasjust passed a homosexual adoption bill in the Lower House . As usual, the well-being of children is not the focus, but the selfish wants of adults. Children are just guinea pigs in this radical social experiment. Indeed, one must recall why adoption laws have been established in the first place. Because young children are so vulnerable, the aim of adoption has been to provide the child in question with a secure, permanent, legal family.  The paramount concern in adoption has been the best interests of the child . Thus only the best families have been allowed to adopt, not just “good enough” families.  The issue of homosexual fostering is really all about homosexual rights, not the interests and needs of children. Can a homosexual couple love and nurture a child? Undoubtedly many can. But that is not the issue. As the...