The Brief Filed by the American Sociological Association in the 2013

question 12

Multiple Choice

The brief filed by the American Sociological Association in the 2013 U.S. Supreme Court cases involving same-sex marriage

• A) advocated a position supported by a slight majority of members of the association.
• B) supported federal and state statutes that prohibited same-sex marriage.
• C) refuted a study purporting to show that children of same-sex parents fare worse than children of opposite-sex parents.
• D) concluded that the evidence was mixed on the impact of same-sex parenting on a child's well-being.

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