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What We've Learned from the Evidence
Oxford University Press
June 2006
368 pages ISBN: 0195187512 Hardcover
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Self-Help Relationships | Non-Fiction
Opponents of same-sex marriage in the United States often
claim that allowing gays and lesbians to marry will lead to
the downfall of the institution of marriage and will harm
children. Drawing from 16 years of data and experience with
same-sex unions in Scandinavia, Gay Marriage: For Better
or for Worse? is the first book to present empirical
evidence about the results of same-sex marriage (in the form
of registered partnerships) from the Nordic countries.
Spedale and Eskridge demonstrate that conservative
defense-of-marriage arguments that predict negative effects
from gay marriage
are invalid, and the Scandinavian experience suggests that
the institution of marriage may indeed benefit from the
enactment of gay marriage. If we look at the proof from
abroad, the authors argue, we must conclude that the
sanctioning of gay marriage in the United States would
neither undermine
marriage as an institution, nor harm the wellbeing of our
nation's children.
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