The “Legalities” to Define The Family: My 2Mommies+Daddy; My 3 Daddies; My 2 Daddies + Mommy; MOM & DAD

Have we come so far in the “evolving” state of family, through the changes in marital law and in technology, that we must now change the legalities of the parental unit?

California, the battleground state for the arguments for and against same-sex marriage, is now considering an unconventional law that would allow children to be legally granted more than two parents.

The bill — SB1476 — would apply equally to men and women, and to homosexual or heterosexual relationships. Proposed by State Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, it has passed the Senate and awaits an Assembly vote.

Leno cites the evolving American family, which includes surrogacy arrangements, same-sex marriages and reproductive techniques that involve multiple individuals.

“The bill brings California into the 21st century, recognizing that there are more than ‘Ozzie and Harriet’ families today,” Leno told the Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco.” target=”external”>Sacramento Bee, which first reported the story.

Leno told ABCNews.com that he recognized a “problem” in the legal system in 2011 when an appellate court placed a girl in foster care when her legally married parents — two lesbians — could not care for her.

The child was taken into state custody when one of her mothers was jailed and the nonbiological mother was hospitalized.

The court did not have the authority to appoint the girl’s biological father, with whom she had a relationship, as a legal parent. That third parent could have “benefitted the well-being of the child,” said Leno.

For the full article:

http://gma.yahoo.com/three-daddies-california-eyes-multiple-parenting-law-180202060–abc-news-health.html

2 Studies Challenge APA and Gay Advocates on Same-Sex Parenting

From American Thinker:

The Washington Timesreported  on Sunday that two new studies indicate that children raised by gay parents  might not benefit from the experience like kids raised by married mother-father  parents.

“The empirical claim that no  notable differences exist must go,” University  of Texas sociology professor Mark  Regnerus said in his study in Social  Science Research.

Regnerus’s study involved 3,000  randomly selected young adults in the U.S.  These young adults’ lives were  measured for “social, emotional, and relationship  outcomes.”

The other new study challenges the  widely accepted contention by the American  Psychological Association that “[n]ot a single study has found children  of lesbian or gay parents to be disadvantaged in any significant respect  relative to children of heterosexual parents.”

Yet it’s often the same gay  advocates who argue that marriage and family are pliable who are as likely to  advance the case that homosexuality is inborn or  genetic,  without any scientific confirmation (or, perhaps, without any good science  confirming).

If homosexuality is ever  proven to be inborn (perhaps new science will prove something someday), it still  stands as a deviancy (the word isn’t being used pejoratively, but  descriptively).  Again, contrary to popular thinking, gays constitute about  3%  of the U.S. population, making gays a significant “deviation from the  norm.”  That 3% figure is likely true across the  planet.

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/06/new_data_on_same-sex_parenting_challenges_gay_orthodoxy.html