Defining ‘Family’
Your Jan. 27 article, “Laws Mean Lesbian Custody Battles Often Are One-Sided,” is itself lavishly one-sided. Nowhere does it mention or otherwise explore the fact that the vast majority of Americans do not consider two lesbians and a child a “family,” as your reporter writes (“for five years the three were a family”).
My American Heritage dictionary defines family as “the most instinctive, fundamental social or mating group in man and animal, especially the union of man and woman through marriage and offspring.”
DAVID WILSON
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