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I hadn't seen that before, I've seen some other stuff but not numbers on that level. Thank you for the info.
Since we are on the topic...
An estimated 27 percent of same-sex couples identified in Census 2000 have a child under 18 living in the home with them (Gates and Ost, 2004).3 Data from the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG), conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics in 2002, show that over 35 percent of lesbians aged 18-44 have given birth, compared with 65 percent of heterosexual and bisexual women. Among gay men, 16 percent have had a biological or adopted child compared to 48 percent of heterosexual and bisexual men.
In other words, more than one in three lesbians have given birth and one in six gay men have fathered or adopted a child.
Same sex couples have kids, and those kids are denied the benefits of the social and cultural standing of marriage. The American Pediatric Association conveys that children of same sex couples can benefit from marriage.
Sources:
http://www.law.ucla.edu/williamsinstitute/publications/FinalAdoptionReport.pdf
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/118/1/349
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