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What Happens If We'Re Wrong- Ii

II. We were told that one man and one woman was outdated, too old, and passé, that any two souls were entitled to the chance to go and have their big day, and while on the individual scale those couples are of no great concern to me, I have to say some doubts still exist when I scale it up to society. In nations where birth rates have been dropping I wonder does it really make much sense to celebrate a form of union that can not naturally bring about children? And how much longer until polygamists declare that now their situation is fine, society suffers when spouses and few, there has to be somewhere we draw the line. What of the concerns when gays have kids, via surrogates or adoptions, we pray that they’ll grow up to be fine folk, who would wish suffering on little ones? But then I remember reading the stats of children raised by single parents, more drop-outs and poverty is bad enough, crime and mental illness…higher percents. Makes me wonder if there’s things we can’t see double male or double female, who knows? Kids need masculine and feminine, and I fear there’s hard paths this might go. Will there be problems we do not expect? I guess we will all now before long, hate to think of children paying the price, what will happen if we’ve got it wrong?

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