April DeBoer and Jayne Rowse are a same-sex lesbian couple who cohabit in Michigan, United States. The problem is that the state of Michigan has legal contraints to same-sex marriages and even more on them adopting children (which was the couple's intention). The issue created CONTROVERSY all around the globe. The Huffington Post comments that these women "could challenge state's gay marriage ban" and the New York Times suggested that the judge "might go further and overturn the state's nine-year-old contitutional amendment on marriage as early as Wednesday (date of the trial)".
In fact, the case was considered immoral against the state's laws and April DeBoer and Jayne Rowse, along with many other gay couples are starting wedding planning.
Lone-Parents also have had their share. A recent study (2011) carried out through all America asked if being a single parent was negative. 99% of the population answered that it was. When asked why, many of the interviewees recurred to either describing a stereotypical lone mother without means to raise a child or said that custody law existed for a reason.
As perceptible, unnecessary beurocracy has stopped family's natural development, which has been conveyed by part of society, but stopped by law and so rejected by another part of society. These laws are the rope from which the conservatives hang to dismiss and ban family changes. Furthermore, these ideas that they mantain are transmitted through primary socialization onto the next generation, creating a barrier circle which has as a breaking point the estates of the world accepting them.
Raul Hernández Guardans ~ 4th E.S.O
This stereotype of a single mother is perpetuated by the media (and politicians) but is wrong. In fact, in the UK at least, most single mothers are older (in their 30s) and usually go on to remarry or at least live in partnership again in the future.
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