Howdy
and welcome to the Not-so-Charlie-Browns blog, where the score is made up and
the points don’t matter. The essential function of this blog is to act as a catalyst
for my thoughts and research on the topic of Family Relations. It is a subject
near and dear to my heart, I come from a family of 8 people, and I have 2
sisters and 4 brothers. Needless to say I have some experience around family!
We all
get along very well and enjoy spending time together as often as possible. I
come from Lehi, Utah and proudly am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of
latter-day saints. I hope that as this blog can serve as a platform
for open discussion, I am more than willing to have my mind changed! I try to
be an open thinker who makes decisions based on fact and reality rather than
feeling or emotions.
There is nothing that affects your happiness
in life greater than the quality of your family relationships. No surprises there,
right? Now, what if I told you that the quality of your family directly affected
the success of the country...
Children raised
in homes where both parents are of the same sex, are statistically put at a
disadvantage in life. Our children are the ones who will continue to shape the
world when we grow old, they will govern our politics, and perhaps most
importantly they will educate the up-and-coming generations to come. Continue
reading to learn how your choices may affect the future directly.
FamilyEquality.org has the following data to offer
" Nearly one in five children being raised by
same-sex couples (24%) live in poverty compared to 14% of children being raised
by different-sex couples. In 2015, 33% of LGBTQ+ parents raising children
experienced food insecurity, compared with 20% of their non-LGBTQ+
counterparts." We also know that children from these LGBTQ+ families
are more likely to be arrested for criminal offenses, more likely to become
addicted to drugs, and less likely to graduate from further education etc...
From this data we learn that children raised in
these same-sex families are put at an economic disadvantage, in many more ways
than one! Nearly 4.5% of adults in the U.S. identify as lesbian, gay,
bisexual, transgender or queer (LGBTQ+). That means that there are more than
11.3 million LGBTQ+ adults in the U.S.
I ask you to consider the biological necessity
for Man and Woman, why would one of each gender be necessary for creation if it
wasn’t necessary for up bringing as well?
This is a tremendously huge group of people,
many of them are living among us and we don’t even know. These people really
aren’t all that different from us and don’t deserve anything but love and
friendship just like anybody else. However, we cannot disregard the fact they
children from these family situations statistically aren’t given as good of a
chance to become successful in life. You may think that because of all the
freedoms we enjoy as citizens of the United States of America that what you do doesn’t
affect others. You’re wrong, you cannot exist in a bubble, everything we do affects
the people in our family, community, and country.
I hope that
despite what might come off as arrogant or insensitive you can tell that I do
in fact care about the lives of people, even people in the LGBTQ+ community. I
am a big believer in education, but if education is not grounded in reality,
then it serves no purpose, worse than that it becomes a poison. Whichever religions
or ideologies you subscribe to, that fact remains immutable.
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