same sex marriage
Same sex marriage
Introduction
Marriage is joining of two people together with a bond of mutual understanding, love & cares that last forever. In our society marriage basically symbolizes the bond between a man & a woman but same sex marriage has also been a controversial social issue for several decades. Same sex marriage is the marriage between people of same gender identity and slowly gaining foothold around the world. It is worth noting that in five countries named The Netherland, Spain, Canada, Belgium and South Africa, people from LGBT (Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) family can marry with Canada providing equal rights to both homosexual and heterosexual couples. In other nations equal rights are not provided and some special residency requirements are imposed on these couples. In our society marriage is considered as the foundation for procreation and involves shouldering of many responsibilities jointly by the couples due to which the same sex marriage is not provided the equal consideration as they have no ability to reproduce their own child. But the LGBT families are much like the rest of the population, LGBT-parented families are diverse, and family members come from a variety of ethnic, racial, cultural, and class groups. The primary difference between LGBT parented and heterosexual-parented families is that the former live in a legal, public policy, social, and discursive context in which discrimination and prejudice on the basis of the parents’ gender or sexuality are a feature of day-to-day life. The ability of lesbian and gay parents to provide just as adequately as heterosexual parents for the social and emotional health of their children has been documented repeatedly in the research literature. Over two dozen studies have found that children raised by gay and lesbian parents were indistinguishable from children raised by heterosexual. It has also being found that homosexual parents are proved to be fit parents for their children in
Introduction
Marriage is joining of two people together with a bond of mutual understanding, love & cares that last forever. In our society marriage basically symbolizes the bond between a man & a woman but same sex marriage has also been a controversial social issue for several decades. Same sex marriage is the marriage between people of same gender identity and slowly gaining foothold around the world. It is worth noting that in five countries named The Netherland, Spain, Canada, Belgium and South Africa, people from LGBT (Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) family can marry with Canada providing equal rights to both homosexual and heterosexual couples. In other nations equal rights are not provided and some special residency requirements are imposed on these couples. In our society marriage is considered as the foundation for procreation and involves shouldering of many responsibilities jointly by the couples due to which the same sex marriage is not provided the equal consideration as they have no ability to reproduce their own child. But the LGBT families are much like the rest of the population, LGBT-parented families are diverse, and family members come from a variety of ethnic, racial, cultural, and class groups. The primary difference between LGBT parented and heterosexual-parented families is that the former live in a legal, public policy, social, and discursive context in which discrimination and prejudice on the basis of the parents’ gender or sexuality are a feature of day-to-day life. The ability of lesbian and gay parents to provide just as adequately as heterosexual parents for the social and emotional health of their children has been documented repeatedly in the research literature. Over two dozen studies have found that children raised by gay and lesbian parents were indistinguishable from children raised by heterosexual. It has also being found that homosexual parents are proved to be fit parents for their children in
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