Tag: Gay Parents

Should the gay marriage debate include the biological reality of parenting versus stepparenting?

The “Cinderella effect” posits that, for atavistic reasons, stepchildren tend to fare less well than biological children.  That’s not always the case, of course.  There are utterly vile biologic parents and wonderful, loving stepparents (as was the case with Abraham Lincoln’s stepmother). The data for the Cinderella effect comes from

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