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[–]Willpoll 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Well on marriage, in the US at least it's tied to the feds. So that means you get certain benefits like tax breaks and other crap from being married, so I guess that's a good thing. Marriage to me at least also has some performative value to signify commitment.

On the topic of adoption I haven't really looked into the effects of kids being raised by same sex couples, but I guess I could see how not having a mother (or father) could mess up a kid. But then again maybe it's possible for a man to fill a mother figure role and a woman to do the same with a father figure role? I think that might be possible. I'll echo a lot of people in the replies and say my first and foremost worry in adoption though is making sure that the adoptee is competent to take care of the kid.