The United States Supreme Court Has, On Many Occasions, Held Up The Fundamental

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Term Paper Title	The United States Supreme Court Has, On Many Occasions, Held Up The Fundamental
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The United States Supreme Court has, on many occasions, held up the fundamental right, guaranteed by the constitution, to marry and procreate. This right is so widely believed that the supreme court doesn’t think that it is even an issue anymore, until it comes to same-sex marriages and gay parenting. In the past decade, courts have had a rising number of custody cases involving a homosexual parent. Typically, the homosexual parent does not get custody of the child because of some accepted social stereotypes surrounding homosexuality. In child custody cases the courts have the freedom to do “what is in the best interest of the child” which, for the courts, usually means placing the child with the other parent or other family members instead of with a homosexual parent (who may be the best choice). The reasons (stereotypes) that some courts use to keep these parents from parenting, or even seeing, their children are: an immoral home environment, the child will be molested by the parent or by another gay person the parent may have around, the child will be influenced to become gay, and the child will be teased or embarrassed. Some courts have even used the excuse that they think that homosexual people are mentally ill even though that was rejected by the APA over 20 years ago (Patterson/Redding 35). A lot of research has been done to see if growing up in a gay or lesbian household has any long-term effects on the children. The majority of the research focuses on lesbian mothers instead of gay fathers, but the research shows the same conclusions for both groups.
In general, the assumptions about gay parents being unfit parents are without any foundation. In every study comparing children from homosexual families/parents to children from heterosexual families/parents, there was no significant difference between the two groups in the departments of emotion or behavior, psychiatric diagnosis, self esteem levels, or quality of friendships with peers (Golombok/ Tasker 6). Patterson found that children from lesbian homes had the correct gender identity (if they were male they believed they were male and the same for the females) and there was no difference between the groups in their gender role (behaviors and attitudes that we identify with that gender); the boys acted like boys and the girls acted like girls. Each of the myths also has its own research to discredit it.
About the belief that the child would be molested, 85% of all molestation involves...

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