(April 20, 2015 at 2:50 pm)Mezmo! Wrote: For example, I had a friend that was raised in a commune. None of the children were certain about who their real parents were. When the adults gave favor to some children over others for no apparent reason, the children got very confused. While not inevitable, these kids grew up with lots of issues. Few people would deny that today’s high divorce rates and serial monogamy negatively affect the children. Why would Western democracies want to create even more problems for themselves?
You act as if what you describe doesn't frequently happen in 'traditional' family environments. My mother was one of ten children; proper Catholics (well, my grandmother anyway). I wont go into details, but nobody survives that environment emotionally unscathed. Additionally, it is not uncommon for any child to perceive situations unjustly when it comes to disparate treatment of siblings even where there are only two children with loving parents.
You, like other vocal opponents of gay marriage, keep hammering away at this idea that anything but a strict Christian style marriage and family unit will result in the downfall of Western civilization. It's baseless hyperbole. The problems invoked as demonstration are just as prevalent in traditional marriages; the causes of which can in no way be attributed to a simple count of the total number of appendages possessed by the parents in a given union.
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