The Baby Boom For Gay Parents
The New York Times produce the article known as “The Changing American Family” by Natalie Angier. The purpose of the entire article is to show that the American family has changed rapidly. However, I focus on the section titled “The Baby Boom for Gay Parents.” This part of the article aims to dispel negative connotations about gay parents and their children. Historically, gay parents were deemed unsuitable as child takers (Angier). Some gay parenthood critics believed that children will suffer due to social stigma, and lack of conventional adult role models (Angier). In the findings from early studies of gay parenthood, it stated that “children with gay parents were prone to have lower grades, conduct disorders, and a heightened risk of drug
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Most gay parented children are academically capable as heterosexual parented children. The baby boom for gay parents appears to be true. More gay parents (single and coupled) are raising more children than in the past decade. In fact, one of thirty-seven children lives with a gay parent. Society is changing (slowly) about cultural acceptance of gay parents. In reality, this article appears to be an “attractive fact” about the baby boom for gay parents. According to the text “one thousand and forty-nine reasons why it’s hard to know when a fact is a fact”, it states, a fact is never truly a fact in a postmodern world (Risman and Rutter 12). Andrew J. Cherlin was the original writer of this article, but it was collected and edited with other texts into one book by Barbara J. Risman and Virginia E. Rutter. Although I personally believe children can be raised to be capable adults by both heterosexual and homosexual parents, I believe the article did not give the whole truth or the full details that can possibly disproved the baby boom for gay parents. As stated earlier, the article did discuss some opposition. The author of “the Changing American Family: Baby Boom for Gay Parents” picked studies that only support her thesis. Cherlin states that media tends to pick facts that support their ideas (Risman and Rutter 13). Furthermore, Cherlin believed that facts that can modify, complicate, or challenge the author’s idea are often omitted in their reports (Risman and Rutter 13). Overall, it is probably a partial fact, but it not a complete
Most gay parented children are academically capable as heterosexual parented children. The baby boom for gay parents appears to be true. More gay parents (single and coupled) are raising more children than in the past decade. In fact, one of thirty-seven children lives with a gay parent. Society is changing (slowly) about cultural acceptance of gay parents. In reality, this article appears to be an “attractive fact” about the baby boom for gay parents. According to the text “one thousand and forty-nine reasons why it’s hard to know when a fact is a fact”, it states, a fact is never truly a fact in a postmodern world (Risman and Rutter 12). Andrew J. Cherlin was the original writer of this article, but it was collected and edited with other texts into one book by Barbara J. Risman and Virginia E. Rutter. Although I personally believe children can be raised to be capable adults by both heterosexual and homosexual parents, I believe the article did not give the whole truth or the full details that can possibly disproved the baby boom for gay parents. As stated earlier, the article did discuss some opposition. The author of “the Changing American Family: Baby Boom for Gay Parents” picked studies that only support her thesis. Cherlin states that media tends to pick facts that support their ideas (Risman and Rutter 13). Furthermore, Cherlin believed that facts that can modify, complicate, or challenge the author’s idea are often omitted in their reports (Risman and Rutter 13). Overall, it is probably a partial fact, but it not a complete