Elizabeth Marquardt argues that marriage experiments in which one biological parent is missing can cause children “serious emotional pain.” The implication is that we should restrict gays from adopting to spare children that pain.
In addition, we should restrict heterosexual would-be adoptive parents, as well as parents who wish to use donated eggs or sperm; aunts, uncles, grandparents and godparents who find children imposed upon them; foster parents; and any other child-rearing situation in which one or more of the biological parents is missing.
Finally, as a person raised by biological parents, I experienced plenty of “serious emotional pain.” Do I think my parents should have been restricted from raising children? C’mon.
Life is filled with serious emotions. Yet I’d wager that most children of gay couples, indeed most children, still agree it’s great to be alive.
