[Coach]

I love the "we know that in general kids do better growing up in a mother/father home" argument.

I took a class in sociology of families last semester and it has been found that there is literally zero evidence that a child from a traditional family will be any better off or any more stable than a child from gay/lesbian parenthood or divorced parents. There is no evidence that these conditions have ANY (positive or negative) effect on a child.

This is mostly because there is not way to see how children would be different if brought up ina different situation. My parents divorced when I was 16. Now that may have affected me positively or negatively or both depending on the traits you're looking at, but there's really no way to determine if I would be different otherwise. And there's certainly no gauge for how much "better" I could have been. Better at what?

Also, just because someone isn't old enough to drive a car, doesnt mean they don't have valid points when it comes to social issues like this. Now, if he had been taking his daughters advice about economic policy it would be a different story.