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Preaching to the choir here, I expect, but...
I'm getting all teary-eyed as I watch this (via![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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Well said, kid. Well said. I also have a friend who was raised in a similar environment, and she's one of the smartest people I know, happily married to a man (not that that's a requirement for well-adjustedness, but it runs counter to yet another myth), with a lovely, well-adjusted daughter of her own. It's time we start calling bullshit more loudly on the myth that kids are any more likely to be messed up by their same-sex parents than by their opposite-sex parents (who, lest we forget, are plenty capable of messing up kids, but we don't see their parental rights as a group being legislated about).
Of course, anecdote is not evidence, which reminds me of a post I've been meaning to do about some of the studies and other research into the issue. Short version: It's no surprise that opponents of equality are retreating from "Science says it's bad for kids!" to "Well, really we just don't know what the effects are. We need time for more data". More and more research shows that this kid is the norm, not the exception. Every time I've seen a study cited as evidence to the contrary and looked up the actual data, it's become clear that it's been, intentionally or otherwise, misinterpreted or taken selectively to fit an agenda.
I'm getting all teary-eyed as I watch this (via
freckles42 on FB)Well said, kid. Well said. I also have a friend who was raised in a similar environment, and she's one of the smartest people I know, happily married to a man (not that that's a requirement for well-adjustedness, but it runs counter to yet another myth), with a lovely, well-adjusted daughter of her own. It's time we start calling bullshit more loudly on the myth that kids are any more likely to be messed up by their same-sex parents than by their opposite-sex parents (who, lest we forget, are plenty capable of messing up kids, but we don't see their parental rights as a group being legislated about).
Of course, anecdote is not evidence, which reminds me of a post I've been meaning to do about some of the studies and other research into the issue. Short version: It's no surprise that opponents of equality are retreating from "Science says it's bad for kids!" to "Well, really we just don't know what the effects are. We need time for more data". More and more research shows that this kid is the norm, not the exception. Every time I've seen a study cited as evidence to the contrary and looked up the actual data, it's become clear that it's been, intentionally or otherwise, misinterpreted or taken selectively to fit an agenda.
