Week 1- What it's like growing up with different types of parents.

     Hey guys! This week has been such a pretty crazy week but pretty enjoyable. We talked a lot about families this week in family relations and would like to share some of the things that I learned.

    One thing that really stood out to me was this quote,"Not a single study has found children of lesbian or gay parents to be disadvantaged in ay significant respect relative to children of heterosexual parents." To me I think that's pretty crazy and honestly don't know what to think. You could think ya thats true just because children's parents aren't straight doesn't mean anything and that everyone is human and can be raised by anyone and still have advantages to things. Or people could think that, thats not true and think that because your parents aren't straight they could have many disadvantages. You could think that maybe their kids would turn out gay or lesbian or that they don't get to see how it's like to be raised by a male and a female. But if you think it would be a disadvantage of having same sex parents what is it like to have divorced parents, or a widowed parent? You would probably get some disadvantages with that too. Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to be a kid and have parents that are the same sex. Would they get bullied at school, would their friends parents let their kids go over and play at their house? Or is our society just used to the point where there is more same sex marriage these days when I was younger? 

    Growing up in my family I have a Mother and a Father. I love the so much in different ways. My mom is someone I can turn to for my secrets or boy advice and I can trust her with that. She nurtures me and taught me so much! My dad he is a hard working, patient and amazing father. He gives me good advice and I know when I am really frustrated with life I can talk to him about it. I can ask him questions about sports or car stuff. I know that anyone could play those roles thats just how I grew up and couldn't see it in another way. I have no judgment towards those with same sex marriage, I just couldn't see that in my life.

We talked about the outcomes of same sex marriage and I thought it was interesting on the groups we came up with. We wondered if there where be abuse and if so we would probably later on ask a 18 year old who would most likely come out and say the truth. We wondered how it would effect their kids mental health. We could probably test them from the ages of 14-18. I honestly think you could test that sooner. So many people are struggling with mental health these days not just from same sex attraction but that could play a huge part into it. We wonder how their social skills are when they grew up with only the same gender as parents. Their family views are probably a lot different views of straight parents. Will this also effect their education and there goals in life? I don't have any friends who grew up this way but I am curious  to know how this could effect children. Are these things really hugely impacted into their lives or does it not have a part at all?

I know this is a huge concern too many people. I also have concerns about single parents or widowed parents' children too. Are they affected in the same way too. Maybe even straight parents too. These things are normal concerns in life not just because of the same sex. I want to know the different rates of how it affects gay/lesbian, straight or singles/unmarried parents kids and see what the different outcomes are/