Same-Sex Families

“This is my best friend, but he’s more like family to me,” a phrase that has been uttered many times and still causes me to stop and contemplate; what is “like family”? A simple person might pull out his or her dictionary and tell you that family is, a group of persons who are related by blood and/or marriage. They may describe the traditional family as consisting of a mother, father and the offspring which they produced. But, what about families that fall outside of that scope, such as households with Same-Sex parents? Can a household with Same-Sex parents be considered a family? It is a common question asked around the country questioning the morality of those who would call it a “proper” family. There are many reasons the general population disagrees with the idea of considering Same-Sex households a family. One of them being that a family is by their definition, a man and a woman coming together in a sacred unity of marriage and having offspring. The idea of having two …show more content…
Family is not about the gender of the parents or how large or small the family is, it is about the members of the family loving each other and supporting each other, even in spite of what people have to say about your situation. Time and time again, people have come together to form families that do not fall within the societal norm. One type of family that doesn’t fit within the “norm” is a family that chooses to adopt because of an inability to bear children. This family, which is unable to have a child just as Same-Sex families, still loves their adopted child just as much as if it were of their own blood. In the case of a Same-Sex family, loving their adopted child stands the same. Just because the parents are not related to their child by blood doesn’t detract from their ability to love and nurture their