Same-sex parenting has widely been evidenced over the past years with some lesbians and gay men taking a central part in the parenting processes through various methods including insemination from the donors, surrogate, adoption processes and fostering of the children. Critically, multiple debates have revolved the nature of the relationship existing among Lesbians, Gay partners. Some individuals including government officials have been at the forefront opposing same-sex marriage and parenthood through the affirmation of the associated mental health effects among the children. Most of them have argued that these types of children are characterized by significant rates of emotional instability and social problems as compared to the those having …show more content…
The Australian research on the child health and same-sex marriages have debunked such claims. They found out that children raised and living with lesbian and gay men have similar levels of self-esteem and are known to spend quality time with their parents as compared to those of the heterosexual parents. Similarly, advocates have reiterated that children under same-sex marriage tend to do well regarding the nature of their health standards, wellbeing, functionalism, peer relationships, high levels of academic and social performance are known to exhibit insignificant cases of anger towards others or situations. Arguably, the nature of a child’s development is not relative to the sexual orientations of their parents but the nature of child-parent development existing amongst them. Advocates have argued that same-sex parenting can just be as supportive and developmental and have a similar impact on children’s only as the heterosexual parents. Same-sex parents also provide an identical supportive environment for their children related to the heterosexual parents. Further, both of these children succumb to similar challenges within their environments hence can face various limitations prevailing within their environmental …show more content…
The same-sex marriage has led to various consequences resulting to the variance like the roles played by the children and behavioral aspects. The behavioral issue of children has closely been studied over the years in relations to the sexual orientations especially of their parents. Various behaviors of children were seen to be distinctively related to the marital adjustment of the parents. They redefined the wellbeing of different types of children in relations to the environment in which they have been brought up in (Qu, Knight & Higgins 2016). The variance in the parenthood among children has significantly reflected on the development of the children within such contexts. Within the same-sex marriage, different roles and responsibilities are shared among the partner’s s compared in the case of the heterosexual parents. Among the heterosexual, responsibilities are normally shared as the partners take part in various roles within theory environment. They tend to divide the childcare and development roles and household activities than in the case of the homosexual parents who equally carry out diverse functions within the homestead and a shared responsibility involving childcare and household duties. For example, in the heterosexual marriages, women tend to predominantly leave with children and are put in charge of household duties while men would go to the