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Unit 4 Core Reading 1首先，我认为传统家庭有利于孩子的成长。众所周知，每个孩子在成长过程中需要母爱以及父爱，缺一不可。通常而言，单亲家庭的孩子相对传统家庭的孩子不够健全。我认为是缺少父爱或母爱而引起的。这些孩子在平时生活中也缺少安全感、不够自信。其次，我认为对孩子也不够公平。众所周知，虽然同性恋逐渐被社会所认可，但是还没有成为主流文化。在孩子成长过程中，难免会被传统家庭中的孩子嘲笑。这对一个世界观还未成熟的孩子来说是不公平的。最后，我们应该想办法，尽我们最大的努力让一个孩子可以在同性恋家庭中健康、快乐的成长。可以享受到完整的爱，可以接受正确的价值观。因为已经有孩子正成长在同性恋家庭中。我们应该引导社会不去歧视这些孩子。Traditional Mother and Father: Still Best Choice for ChildrenTom AdkinsThere are all sorts of prizes in politics. The White House. The governors mansion. A congressional seat. Since gays have left the closet and entered the political arena, those prizes have rightfully become available to them.But political prizes come by the will of voters. Social prizes are different. A few motivated people in the right places can often coerce public policy. Now gays have their eyes set on a critical prize: children - more specifically, who has rights to adopt children.On Feb. 4, the American Academy of Pediatrics released a controversial policy statement on those rights, claiming that children could be brought up with equally good results by gay or by heterosexual parents. The AAP points to 31 published studies that prove its case. But these studies are far from airtight. Each one had already been thoroughly sliced and diced in the report No Basis: What the Studies Dont Tell Us About Same Sex Parenting, written by quantitative analysts Robert Lerner and Althea Nagai and published by the Ethics and Public Policy Center. Lerner and Nagai had debunked these studies as unsound, often politically motivated fiction. Lerner told me that the studies are fatally flawed in methodology, technique and analysis. Some didnt even have control groups.The AAP authors told me that theyd never heard of the Lerner/Nagai study and that they had not been able to find much contrary evidence. Yet University of Southern California sociologists Judith Stacey and Timothy Biblarz reviewed studies showing that while psychologically fine, daughters of lesbian couples are more likely to be sex