Supporting man-woman marriage

Same-sex marriage supporters say there are no reasons to support a gender requirement in marriage. Are they right?

July 18, 2013 | by Andrea Mrozek , Executive Director, Institute of Marriage and Family Canada
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Endnotes

  1. Same-sex marriage makes Canada better. (2013, June 11). The Province, p. A12.
  2. Moore, J. (2013, March 28). Are we really still arguing about gay marriage? National Post. Retrieved from http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2013/03/28/john-moore-are-we-really-still-arguing-about-gay-marriage/
  3. Adams, M. (2013, July 2). Pro gay rights, because we know each other; After dividing Canadians for years, marriage equality enjoys clear favour. The Globe and Mail, p. A13.
  4. One incestuous couple has been repeatedly prosecuted in Germany. For more information: http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/dangerous-love-german-high-court-takes-a-look-at-incest-a-540831.html
  5. Til 2013 do us part? Mexico mulls 2-year marriage. (2011, September 29). Reuters.
  6. See chapter five in David Blankenhorn’s The Future of Marriage (2007). New York: Encounter Books.
  7. McCann, M. (2006, December 21). The $1-million marriage fight. Capital Xtra.
  8. The state of our unions, 2010. Retrieved from http://stateofourunions.org/2010/SOOU2010.php
  9. For gay couples as a percentage of all couples, see http://www12.statcan.ca/census-recensement/2011/as-sa/98-312-x/98-312-x2011001-eng.cfm
    For the percentage of gay couples with children, see http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2011/dp-pd/tbt-tt/Rp-eng.cfm?LANG=E&APATH=3&DETAIL=0&DIM=0&FL=A&FREE=0&GC=0&GID=0&GK=0&GRP=1&PID=102659&PRID=0&PTYPE=101955&S=0&SHOWALL=0&SUB=0&Temporal=2011&THEME=89&VID=0&VNAMEE=&VNAMEF=
  10. Brean, J. (2013, July 11). Gay man confirmed as legal father of girl — even though his former partner is her biological parent. National Post. Retrieved from http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/07/11/appeals-court-confirms-gay-man-legal-father-of-girl-even-though-his-former-partner-is-her-biological-parent/
  11. Roback Morse, J. (2012, April 2). Privatizing marriage is impossible. The Witherspoon Institute. Retrieved from http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2012/04/5069/
  12. Le Bourdais, C. Lapierre-Adamcyk, E. (2004, November). Changes in conjugal life in Canada: Is cohabitation progressively replacing marriage? Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 66, No. 4, p. 929.
  13. Lakritz, N. (2013, July 4). Gay marriage is a threat to no one. Calgary Herald, p. A12.
  14. For the most recent census data, see http://www12.statcan.ca/census-recensement/2011/as-sa/98-312-x/98-312-x2011001-eng.cfm
  15. "Consistently, a change in family status from lone parenthood to any other category decreases the probability of moving into low income, in most cases more than halving the rate relative to those who remained single mothers." Finnie, R. and Sweetman, A. (2003). Poverty dynamics: empirical evidence for Canada. Canadian Journal of Economics, 36 (2), p. 306.
  16. For the 2005 fertility rate, see http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/91-003-x/2007001/4129903-eng.htm
    For the 2011 fertility rate, see http://www.statcan.gc.ca/tables-tableaux/sum-som/l01/cst01/hlth85b-eng.htm
  17. The State of Our Unions, 2010.
  18. Girgis, S., Anderson, R.T. and George, R.P. (2013, June 27). The Supreme Court, you and me, and the future of marriage. The Witherspoon Institute. Retrieved from  http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2013/06/10455/
  19. Berlatsky, N. (2013, May 7). A truly inclusive way to answer the question ‘Where do babies come from?’ Atlantic Monthly. Retrieved from http://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/05/a-truly-inclusive-way-to-answer-the-question-where-do-babies-come-from/275607/