We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
THE EVOLUTION—OR END—OF MARRIAGE?: REFLECTIONS ON THE IMPASSE OVER SAME-SEX MARRIAGE.
- Authors
McClain, Linda C.
- Abstract
The debate over legalizing same-sex marriage implicates the question of whether doing so would signal the end—or destruction—of the institution of marriage. The appeal to preserving a millennia-old tradition of marriage against change fails to reckon with the evolution that has already occurred. Invocations of gender complementarity between parents as essential to child well-being also conflict with growing recognition in family law that children's best interests can be served by gay and lesbian parents. Canada's path toward same-sex marriage suggests that impasse need not be inevitable. In the United States, this impasse stems in part from the problem that same-sex marriage serves as an emblem of everything that threatens marriage.
- Subjects
CANADA; UNITED States; SAME-sex marriage; DOMESTIC relations; LEGAL status of children; SAME-sex parents; LESBIAN mothers
- Publication
Family Court Review, 2006, Vol 44, Issue 2, p200
- ISSN
1531-2445
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1744-1617.2006.00079.x