The Right to Marry and Rear Children

Love in the LGBTQ+ Community

Most people, at some point, desire to have children; it is a human need. People in the LGBTQ+ community are no exception, as they wish to become parents. This article will focus on raising children in an LGBTQ+ household, some of the trauma associated with it, and how married same-sex couples make great parents.

The Right to Marry

In 2015, the Supreme Court decided in the Obergefell v. Hodges case that same-sex couples had the constitutional right to marry the person they adored.

Then in July 2020, there was an effort to reaffirm that the freedom to marry is settled law and provide clarity to millions of families, offering protection from attacks from a conservative Supreme Court.

Unfortunately, that bill has stalled because the Senate has not considered the bill.

In a Gallup poll taken in June 2022, 71% of Americans approve and support marriage equality. That is a lot of people who favor marriage for same-sex couples.

Constantly living in a society that includes people who ignore your needs dramatically impacts your life and causes traumatic reactions in some LBGTQ+ people. When it is at its worst, the trauma is a first-class ticket to forming post-traumatic stress disorder. Also, if the person was traumatized as a child, they might also live with complex post-traumatic stress disorder.