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Canada: ?Children of same-sex couples experience their families in different ways?

By Alliance Alert

The Vancouver Sun: "The children of gay, lesbian, transgender and bisexual parents have been dubbed the 'gayby boom.' . . . Statistics Canada tallied more than 45,000 same-sex couples in Canada in 2006, of which 7,465 were married. Same-sex couples represented 0.6 per cent of all couples in Canada, with just over half being men . . . Based on those figures, a rough calculation would put the number of these families in Canada at a little over 4,000. But this is an underestimate, says Katherine Arnup, a Carleton University historian who studies Canadian families."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on July 27, 2010 (boomark / email).