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Conversations: with Katy Faust and Stacy Manning, Co-Authors of ‘Them Before Us’

John Anderson: Conversations

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The Benefits of Same-Sex Parenting

Sociologists have been studying family structure for decades. They tend to agree that biological parents advantage children in ways that unrelated adults do not. So, since sociologists agree on all of this, why is it that magically when you're talking about same-sex parenting, there's no difference? Because love is love. Even though there's always a biological parent missing, they're always starved of the mothering or fathering that maximizes child development. And these kids don't fare well, right? Especially emotionally.

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