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The debate over same-sex marriages keeps getting new spikes each day passing in India but the people in general are yet to be convinced over the rationale behind such an approval.
Breathing steam to the confusion post the view of the Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud that “There is no absolute concept of a man or an absolute concept of a woman at all” goes to raise a social and medical debates.
‘No Research To Prove Same-Sex Partners Are Inept Parents’: Psychiatrists Write furthering the contours of the confusion.
No matter that the same-sex marriage is accepted ,done and recognized in as many as 34 countries after a prolonged phases of arguments, counter argument and staunch critique.
Some arguments uphold this tradition citing carvings on Indian shrines and motifs but there is no fool-proof evidence to support it as what was the intentions then. Pure aberrations or on then existing sexual practices as part of Tantric practices. Or were those a part in real-life that the same-sex unions were widely prevalent.
And at the centre of the debate is how non-heterosexual parents would raise their children – and how the society would ‘accept’ same-sex parents.
And yet, the very idea of a child having same-sex parents makes a major chunk of our population uneasy.
Instances are plenty many that same-sex partners have lived their entire lives together, denied any recognition of being a couple or unable to adopt children, despite having financial and emotional capacity to do so.
In a society where discrimination towards caste related issues such as Dalits or tribal stick the necks how come children of a same-sex parents can escape the social stigmas and jeers all their lives.
Research shows that the financial, psychological, and physical well-being of queer individuals are enhanced through marriage, and that the children of same-sex parents benefit from being raised by couples within a marital union, which is recognised by law and supported by societal institutions.
Emotional bonding through love and care plays a great role for a child be it from heterosexual or same-sex parents. So the gendered role are at all a reason in upbringing decently.
So, now is there a need to change ourselves and the laws in accordance with the changing times and mind-set?
