Worldly Influences on the Family

 I came across some interesting topics this week about different family dynamics. What I found interesting was the study about whether children in homo families were the same as hetero families. I was reading a meta-analysis of this study and upon further investigation found that not many of the studies actually did what they claimed. In the studies they didn’t really study many hetero families, and instead studied single parent families. Children from single parent families can already have disadvantages, so it seems unfair to study these families then say that children raised in homo families were better off. Of course they are! I’m not in any way saying that all children raised in single parent families are worse off, I mean I was pretty much raised by a single parent, and I’m doing great, but it's the fact that the researchers didn’t use normal families like they said they were going to use them. Even with this knowledge that even though children raised in homo families are better than those from single parent families, I personally cannot agree. Two parental figures can be better than one, the children raised in homo families miss out on many key things in life that a child needs. For example, some of these things would include - a mother's compassion and care, as well as a father's sternness. In the other family types, the children will miss out on one or more of these important things. It's almost as if there's a reason, we were created in specific but different ways. In the family proclamation it states that men and women are modeled after the image of God, and that gender is important to our premortal, mortal, and eternal identity. Heavenly Father made it so we would be different, men and women, so that as we bring children here to this life, we can teach and care for the children. With this knowledge, can children raised in homo families really have the same outcome as hetero families? I don’t think so. Even though I do not agree with homo style families, it is not my place to say how others live their lives. However, I do not think we should be going down this path as a country/world. People say that we are changing for the better, as we include and bend the rules to “accommodate” others such as those that want to follow the homo style of a family. I’m not saying that we need to exclude or shun them, but we should not go down this path. This was not Heavenly Fathers intent or plan. If we look at the ancient cities of greek and rome, they both fell from many causes but one that stood out to me was that before both cities fell the men of power started to be extremely homosexual. Now these were glorious and mighty cities, would almost seem to be incapable of being overthrown. I think that our Heavenly Father didn’t like them doing that, causing their demise. I am in no way saying this is true, It is simply a speculation I have, but I do think that in order to not follow in those paths we need to not let ourselves go down in that same way. Despite what other people “identify” as or that they are attracted to the same gender, doesn't mean that we all need to agree with them. They can have their own thoughts and beliefs, but I believe that we need to remember our Heavenly Father’s plan. Man and women are what a strong family is, not man and man or women and women or whatever else people can think up, it is man and women. I know I could get backlash on this but I truly believe that there is a reason Heavenly Father created us in his image, for us to be like him. I know that men and women are what makes a true and strong family, especially a family that raises children in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, for it is the only true and holy church and I have a testimony of this church and the gospel.