Happy Family Day, LGBT Families

categories: LGBT Adoption, LGBT Parenting, Obama Administration and Gay Rights

Published September 28, 2009 @ 01:39PM PT

LGBT family Today is Family Day, a national awareness day to talk about the importance of sitting down with your kids over dinner and engaging in their lives in constructive, positive ways. The White Hosue issued a proclamation about the day, and for the first time in history, LGBT families were included in an official White House statement.

"Whether children are raised by two parents, a single parent, grandparents, a same-sex couple, or a guardian, families encourage us to do our best and enable us to accomplish great things," the White House said.

Cool. And nicely timed with this study, published in this month's Adoption Quarterly, which says yet again that children who are raised by gay parents grow up to be just as well balanced as children raised by heterosexual parents.

Or, in other words, families are good for children no matter if they're LGBT or straight. That's something experts get. And now, for the first time, it seems that it's something that the White House gets, too.

(Photo courtesy of greenmelinda's photostream on Flickr.)

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Adoption of children by lesbian and gay couples must not be restricted on the basis of intolerance. Children who have lesbian or gay parents can definitely be and are just as stable children as those raised by heterosexual parents. What doesn't matter is what gender are the parents because what does matter is that the parents are committed to nurturing their children. It's good that the White House included LGBT families in their statement for Happy Family Day.

Posted by Edwin Bonilla on 09/28/2009 @ 07:04PM PT
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So will Obama film an ad for Maine and Washington? ....errrr

would it help or hurt?

Posted by Lee Dorsey on 09/28/2009 @ 09:23PM PT
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Good questions...

Posted by Thomas McHugh on 09/28/2009 @ 10:55PM PT
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Family is too damned important to let the bible thumpers destroy it with their hate.

Posted by Thomas McHugh on 09/28/2009 @ 11:24PM PT
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Michael is the Communications Director for the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School, and previously was Communications Director for Pax Christi USA, a progressive Catholic human rights organization.