Happy Family Day, LGBT Families

by Michael Jones · 2009-09-28 13:39:00 UTC
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LGBT familyToday 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.)

Michael Jones is a Change.org Editor. He has worked in the field of human rights communications for a decade, most recently for Harvard Law School.
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