What Is a Family?

Answering this question is not as easy as it might seem. Many conservative groups, whose agenda includes protection of what they view as the "traditional" family, oppose gay parenting, in part out of fear that the homosexuality of the parent will somehow be transmitted to the child. According to Robert Barret and Bryan Robinson, two studies - both included psychological tests - done on children of gay fathers showed little to no effect of the fathers' sexual orientation on that of the child's. …