theronware
Dryer sheet wannabe
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HaHa said:This does not sound possible, unless you are using some odd definition of household. Not even 60% of all households are raising children. It would be strange indeed if gays were raising proportionately more children than the entire population of gays and straights taken together.
If your assertion is indeed true, please provide some evidence, as I think this would be a revolutionary social change and would at the very least argue strongly for not only allowing but fostering gay marriage in every jurisdiction.
Ha
I meant gay couples, rather than households (my own form of chauvinism, I suppose). And, yes, there I exaggerated -- but only somewhat. The numbers are as follows:
"Forty percent of same-sex couples aged 22 to 55 are raising children, about 5 percent of whom are adopted, according to the Williams Project, a UCLA Law School think tank. If you include children born in once-heterosexual marriages, raised by single parents and parents of all ages, up to 10 million children are estimated to have a lesbian or gay parent." (This is from the *Boston Globe* March 26 2006)
Doesn't 40% of same-sex couples raising children also "argue strongly for not only allowing but fostering gay marriage in every jurisdiction"?
Theronware