KIDS RAISED BY SAME-SEX COUPLES SAY SSM WOULD MAKE THEIR FAMILIES OFFICIAL: From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Like many children of divorce, Erin and Muriel have a mom and a stepmother.

But in their case, the two women live together.

"I think it's cool," says bubbly fifth-grader Erin. "There's always a mom there." ...

Patrick Fitzhugh, whose parents divorced when he was very young, feels lucky that he was rarely teased as a child for being raised by two lesbians. Yet, he said he always felt that people viewed his family as incomplete because his mom and her partner of 15 years weren't married.

"Without the marriage, you're not understood in society to have a family that loves one another completely," said the Kansas State University sophomore.

Fitzhugh, 21, said he didn't realize how deeply he cared about what other people thought until his mother's marriage ceremony two weeks ago at a very public event in Kirkwood. That the marriage is not considered legal in Missouri makes no difference to Fitzhugh, who has waited nearly all his life for such an event.

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