Cheers.

Alright, if I have to I’ll go first then.

Note Im coming from an objective standpoint, something a lot of you with emotive, subjective and unsubstantiated opinions (pro tip: an opinion is different from fact) would do well to grasp.

Rather than link you to one article, I simply entered a non biased search term into google and hey presto. Many articles and journals that proclaim no evidence to suggest it is in any way more harmful than same sex parenting.

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Whether there needs to be more research done is another matter, but you can only have a proper debate on this if you actually bother to read around the subject first.

Misinformation and unsubstantiated opinion masquerading as fact is one of my pet hates.

Your move

Did you know? 98.0000001% of people are morons.

But you have ignored the main point of my post which was that research cannot be relied on. I'd rather trust experience.

Edited by Hrolf The Ganger (14 Feb 2018 8.12pm)

And that sir, is complete and utter nonsense.

Research is better than the completely unscientific ‘life experiences’ of a heterosexual male with a sample of 1. Or at least a sample of less than is scientifically credible.

While we’re at it, let’s ban all research. Useless. You can’t rely on it.

What a statement.

Did you know? 98.0000001% of people are morons.

But none the less, it is interesting that you just accept research finding without any knowledge of the process used or the criteria just because it suits your way of thinking.
It's also interesting that you feel so strongly about it. I am unbiased on the subject myself aside from being a strong supporter of gay rights but putting the welfare of children above all else.

I’m not in a position to read every article in 5 minutes. I am in a position to make a qualified decision based on the overwhelming initial volume of different research that I’ve found that seems to be reaching the same conclusion.

I’m not accepting it in totality, just making the case based on the constraints of this exchange, which I think is fair, and carries more weight than a hunch or opinion.

I feel strongly about any issues that involve minorities, especially when people start to debate on emotive opinion rather than objective fact. Pretty simple really.

Did you know? 98.0000001% of people are morons.

I think the 'traditional' family model is already hugely problematic, so alternatives should be encouraged, at least until we could definitively say it doesn't work - the point on family planning is a strong one to suggest the standard of parenting should be better in single sex families.

In terms of when it goes wrong; I wouldn't consider the state implicated in faulty same-sex families any more than I would in a 'traditional' one - ie. Only really if there is a failure to act from the relevant social services, as we have seen previously, or something of that sort.

As you elude to in your post, there are a hundred and one things which influence a child's upbringing - I haven't seen anything convincing that suggests same sex parents is consistently a harming factor in that process. I certainly don't consider the likelihood of a single sex family raising a bad egg to be any higher, which ultimately should be the deciding point.

Edited by EverybodyDannsNow (14 Feb 2018 8.33pm)