Saturday, September 21, 2013

This week in my family relations class, we were discussing the topic of same-sex marriage and the effects it has on children. We looked at the Supreme Court ruling and the studies they looked at. I found it very interesting that the majority of the studies looked at cannot be viewed as valid. Some of the studies didn't have a comparison group, and more often then not, same-sex parent families were compared to single mother families. The majority of the studies the Supreme Court decision was based on were not compared to traditional families with a mother and a father, but were said to have no difference on the impact of the children in either situation. As my class analyzed the studies used in the Supreme Court case, we came to the conclusion that children are affected by their parents and the family they have.