More than 100,000 children are adopted each year in the United States. Increasingly, these adoptions are being made by same-sex couples, raising questions about whether a child’s best interests can be served by same-sex parents. Are traditional homes still the best way to go, or are kids just as well-suited as part of a non-nuclear family?
A wise and compassionate society always comes to the aid of children in motherless or fatherless families, but a wise and compassionate society never intentionally subjects children to such families. But every single same-sex home would do exactly that, for no other reason than that a small handful of adults desire such kinds of families.
There is no research indicating such homes will be good for children. In fact the data show us that the family experimentation we have subjected children to over the past 30 years has all failed to improve human well-being in any important way. What makes us think more of it will make the situation any better? It will only make life for our children dramatically worse.
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