Children with Gay/Lesbian Parents: Will They Live the Same Lifestyle as Their Parents?
Children with Gay/Lesbian Parents: Will they live the same lifestyle as their parents?
What I Already Know/What I Want to Know As of this year, about seven states have legalized gay marriage. California, New York and New Hampshire are just a few of the states that recognize and allow gay marriage. It has taken years for homosexual to get the privilege to be legally bound to someone they love. Just like the old playground song, "First comes love then comes marriage then comes the baby in a baby carriage." Like every other couple, homosexual couples look forward to having children, but not everybody agrees with that. Every time something is done that other people don 't agree with there are questions. How will they have a child? How will they raise that child? Are they even fit parents? Will the child grow up to be "normal"? I already knew that for a homosexual couple do have option to having children. Just like other couples they have the options of; seragacy, adoption or a gestational carrier. I even know that many homosexuals are people who are previously divorced from a heterosexual partner. Still there is so much more to be learned about homosexual parents and their children or future children. I needed to know more about if this really did effect the children as much as people say. Are theses children doing as well in school as children with heterosexual parents? Will children of homosexual parents become homosexual themselves? I made a list of all the things I wanted to know. From that list, I was able to form my research question: Will a child 's parents sexuality preference doom them to be unfit students and even chose their parents sexuality? Later, I was able to form an answer.
The Story of My Search It took me a very long time to get any where with my search, about two weeks to be exact. My search began when I stumbled on an article by Alice Park called "Study: Children of Lesbians May Do Better Than Their Peers." The
What I Already Know/What I Want to Know As of this year, about seven states have legalized gay marriage. California, New York and New Hampshire are just a few of the states that recognize and allow gay marriage. It has taken years for homosexual to get the privilege to be legally bound to someone they love. Just like the old playground song, "First comes love then comes marriage then comes the baby in a baby carriage." Like every other couple, homosexual couples look forward to having children, but not everybody agrees with that. Every time something is done that other people don 't agree with there are questions. How will they have a child? How will they raise that child? Are they even fit parents? Will the child grow up to be "normal"? I already knew that for a homosexual couple do have option to having children. Just like other couples they have the options of; seragacy, adoption or a gestational carrier. I even know that many homosexuals are people who are previously divorced from a heterosexual partner. Still there is so much more to be learned about homosexual parents and their children or future children. I needed to know more about if this really did effect the children as much as people say. Are theses children doing as well in school as children with heterosexual parents? Will children of homosexual parents become homosexual themselves? I made a list of all the things I wanted to know. From that list, I was able to form my research question: Will a child 's parents sexuality preference doom them to be unfit students and even chose their parents sexuality? Later, I was able to form an answer.
The Story of My Search It took me a very long time to get any where with my search, about two weeks to be exact. My search began when I stumbled on an article by Alice Park called "Study: Children of Lesbians May Do Better Than Their Peers." The
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