https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthart/2023/03/06/kids-raised-by-same-sex-parents-fare-same-as-or-better-than-kids-of-straight-couples-research-finds/

When I read articles stating the latter, that children with gay parents are worse off than children with straight parents, it seems rooted in traditional ideology. A mother is a caretaker, they’re nurturing, understanding and comforting, a father is overbearing, disciplining and can protect the child physically. I find this to be a brutish way of thinking. Men can be gentle, loving and caring and women can be tough, strict and strong! To think that all men and all women fall into these categories based on our gender is silly. I know emotional boys who wouldn’t fight a fly and I know insensitive girls who would fight their own father.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4771005/

This study done in 2015 argues that children with gay parents are worse off and they are using the argument that a child needs a woman and a man to take care of them, stating lesbian parents have higher rates of high school dropouts and that kids are only 63% as likely to graduate when raised with gay parents. As much as I’d like to believe this “scientific” research, I do not agree with the core concept of it. That women must take on the role of caretaker and homemaker and a man must assume the responsibility of a protector and discipline. I believe it perpetuates the absent roles fathers so commonly take in life, whether or not they’re actually gone, leaving a child’s emotional needs and care fully to a woman because you believe she’s better at it is an excuse for men to be less present and not have to learn about their own emotional maturity. I understand that women and men have their biological disadvantages and advantages, but a man and a man or a woman and a woman can just as strongly discipline, care for and love a child as anyone else.