FUN WITH PROCREATION: Eve replies to Gabriel Rosenberg, final part
Finally: To my mind, Gabriel's most compelling point is implicit: How do we strengthen relationships between children and their de facto caretakers, when those caretakers aren't married to the kids' parents (whether biological or adoptive)? It is best for children to be legally tied to more than one person. But Gabriel is speaking as if SSM fixes this problem. Under a legal-SSM regime, there are lots of kids who would be left still tied to only one person. Why not focus on strengthening, e.g., second-parent adoption laws, so that particular people who are already responsible for particular children--whether they're sleeping with the children's legal parent or not!--can be aided by law in fulfilling their responsibilities?
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