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Letters

Children of Gay Marriages

To the Editor:

Re “Opponents of Same-Sex Marriage Take Bad-for-Children Argument to Court” (news article, Feb. 23):

Let’s take this argument to the next level. Is anyone considering barring straight people from marrying and having children? Research can point to many examples of heterosexual couples being terrible parents. Yet somehow they retain their right to marry and have children.

SUSAN BEHRENS
Brooklyn, Feb. 23, 2014

To the Editor:

Even if the social science evidence on whether children brought up in same-sex marriages do worse than those in heterosexual marriages is accepted (which is unlikely and unwarranted), it should not come as a surprise. Children brought up in a society that stigmatizes same-sex marriage will be victims of the very homophobic prejudice underlying such stigmatization.

ALLAN C. HUTCHINSON
Toronto, Feb. 23, 2014

The writer is a professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University.

A version of this article appears in print on  , Section A, Page 22 of the New York edition with the headline: Children of Gay Marriages. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe

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