My high schooler is explaining her support for #traditionalmarriage to a friend and we drafted a child-centric outline for her case. Here’s it is:
1. Children have a natural right to their mother/father. Adults care which baby they leave the hospital with- they don’t want just any baby. They want *their* baby because biology matters to parents. It matter to kids too.
2. Marriage unites the 2 people to whom children have a natural right and the 2 people statistically most likely to provide love/safety to kids & the relationship which guarantees a perfect gender balance in the home- moms/dads offer distinct/complimentary benefits to kids.
3. Children experience a lifelong wound and diminished outcomes when they lose their mom and/or dad whether by donor conception, divorce, death or abandonment, even if subsequently adopted.
4. Because mother/father loss harms children, it should never be promoted or normalized.
5. Redefining marriage redefines parenthood. When husband and wife is optional in law, dads and moms become optional as well. Yet, no kid I know believes that. They experience deep pain when they don’t have a close, loving relationship with their mom or dad.
6. A just society *permits* adults to form consensual relationships, but only *promotes* the one adult relationship that produces and nurtures new life, and where children experience zero loss when joining the family.
7. Christians who support traditional marriage on the basis of children’s rights should also wholeheartedly love their gay family and friends.
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