Far from being less capable than parents of conventional families, “those who have children against the odds become highly involved and committed parents,” she writes. To the extent children suffer harm, it tends to come from outside their family: the stigma against them. That’s a social failing, not one inherent to the family structure. “Children are most likely to flourish in warm, supportive, stable families, whatever their structure,” she writes in her book We Are Family, “and are most likely to experience emotional and behavioral problems in hostile, unsupportive and unstable families,
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