Media isn't always true

 

 Hello! Welcome to my first blog. In some of my blogs I may discuss topics that may be a little hard for some of you to hear about, so I want to apologize in advance. I would like to express my respect for everyone, and this is just my opinion. I do not expect everyone to agree with me and if you don’t agree that’s ok. This week something, we discussed was children of parents in a same sex marriage. This topic hits home for me. I have family members in same sex relationships, and they have children, and I have heard from a lot of people that if a same sex couple has a child, that child will also become gay/lesbian. Multiple studies have shown that this fact is not true. In fact, there has not been any evidence to back this up. Although, the research that was done was not an accurate representation of the children who are in a same sex household. The research was only done on white families in the upper middle class. The researchers also only spoke to the parents, they never spoke to the children and got their point of view. I think the researchers could have done a lot more and received a more accurate research results and spoke to children in different social statuses and with different cultural backgrounds. With same sex marriage being a hot topic right now, I do not think a lot of people are focused on the children.  There is so much information that could be gathered and I think it was forgotten about. Also, with this being a hot topic in media today, and this research being brought to light, this makes me wonder about what media is actually putting out there. Yes, we have always heard that we cannot trust everything that is on the internet, but how much information is not true. According to a post in the New York Times (I know an online source) they were able to find over 1.7 million “fraud” sites. Internet sites that give “fake new”. Going back to same sex marriage, people are saying that they are “ruining families”. I see their point of views on what they think a family should be.  The people who are saying same sex marriages are ruining families, believe that marriage should be between a man and a woman and children should be brought into the family naturally. That is the “ideal” family, however it makes me think of families that are more acceptable that don’t fall into these “normal” families. Like a widow who has children, or the single mother struggling to make ends meet, or the couple who can’t have children and decide to adopt. Wouldn’t these more acceptable families be breaking the ideal thoughts on a family? Also, going back to the “well children of same sex families will become gay/lesbian” theory, all children don’t grow up to be just like their parents. Being gay or lesbian is not a genetic trait. It’s a sexual orientation. And would it be the worse thing is a same sex couple to adopt a child in need. Are we really trying to argue that a child is better off in the states care then that child would be with two people who would love and care for them? My personal beliefs on the topic are complex. I believe a mother and a father bring certain aspect to a child; however, I see nothing wrong with a same sex couple having a child. I believe they could do as good as a job and a heterosexual couple. I am sorry if this felt all over the place, I just feel passionate about the child’s wellbeing over who their parents are attracted to and I feel like this is something that should be more researched and talked about. 

 

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