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Essay About Gay Family In The Philippines

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The Philippines is experiencing a gradual change of family structure like most countries. This change mainly pertains to the continuous increase of teenage pregnancies, single parenting, early marriage, cohabitating families, nuclear families, blended families, same sex marriage and the arising of gay and/or lesbian families. Among these issues, the same sex marriage and the gay families are the ones that catch the attention of many people since it is far from the traditional or family structures. Aside from that, the main reason why it draws attention was because of the issue of morality. In the eye of the society, gays and lesbians do not have the right to be married and have a family for the reasons that it is against the will of the Almighty. But what does the society know about the thoughts of gay men in having their own family in the future? Gays are also humans and they deserve to be treated …show more content…

These families arise due to the fact that most of the people especially the youngsters were so open in engaging in relationships. However, people are very much intelligent enough to think about the implications of their relationship in their well being and future. The increasing number of families getting separated under different circumstances is normal than as before. Yet the issue of sexual orientation is a big deal and seems to be not an option for other people to be a form of family that needs to withstand by the homosexuals. In the heteronormative view, men and women are considered to be the natural roles in life. It is assumed that the only sexual orientation is heterosexuality. It states that it is the only one who fits the relationships between people. Michael Warner popularized the term heteronormativity in 1991 (Warner, 1991). Kitzinger (2005) describes heteronormativity as “the myriad ways in which heterosexuality is produced as natural, unproblematic, taken-for-granted

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