No magic combination of genders

Jessica Valenti, in an article for Salon, talks about changing family structure in a time when laws haven't kept up and some politicians have a particular idea of a "traditional" family. Along the way she notes that children of lesbians are least likely to be sexually abused. She ends by saying:

But if traditional-family advocates hang on at all costs to their supremacist view of what parenting looks like, it’s not just children who will suffer but families and national progress.

There’s no one right way to parent and there’s no magic combination of genders that produces the most well-adjusted child. We all do the best we can at loving our kids and building our families. So if the goal is happy children, let’s focus on that, and not on forcing Americans into an antiquated family model we’ve moved beyond.

Mayrav Saar wrote an article for the New York Post about a controversy in the Conservative Jewish community. The problem is that in traditional weddings the groom declares ownership of his wife. In same-sex weddings that notion doesn't appear. Rabbis are trying to maintain the traditional form for all straight weddings. Saar believes that once prospective couples see or hear about the gay version they'll want that instead.