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Summary Of Ryan Anderson's Marriage: What It Is, Why It Matters '

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Filled with slippery slope logic and discredited studies, Ryan Anderson’s “Marriage: What It Is, Why It Matters, and the Consequences of Redefining It” is an absolutely ridiculous piece. The paper disguises itself as a report looking out for the sanctity of marriage with the purpose of attacking a specific group of people. The author supports a traditional view, defining marriage as a union to bring together a man (husband) and a woman (wife) to be the father and mother of children born of their sexual union. Interpreting marriage as a fundamental building block of society, Anderson states that marriage is the least intrusive method for society to ensure that children are well taken care of. However, I vehemently oppose that assessment. …show more content…

I do agree that a non-divorced, low-stress household provides a better environment for children. However, his support to back up the claim that opposite-sex parenting is the ideal child-raising environment is ridiculous. The University of Texas-Austin study had been repeatedly discredited. The funders of the study have ties to the right-wing movement, and considering how skewed the study came out it isn’t unreasonable to assume that the funders invested, expecting a certain outcome. Moreover, the study didn’t properly define what a same-sex relationship was, as the questions to determine the parent’s orientation were extremely ambiguous. Additionally, the study differentiated between opposite-sex families (divorce, adopted, etc.), however, there was no differentiation between same-sex families, where the majority of participants in the same sex group were the children of parents who were no longer together. His second source, the study from Demographic doesn’t even support his stance. On the issue of costing taxpayer’s money, his source was ridiculous. In that study, the American Values Organization essentially took anything that could be stretched into a possible correlation with a single parent household into the calculation. Essentially, the study was of welfare costs and not the price of divorce or single parent

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