The Church acknowledges and reaches out to single parents. To intentionally deprive children of a mother and a father is different than the unintended or undesired reality of single parenthood. In addition, the difficult reality of unintended or undesired single parenthood, unlike same-sex “marriage,” is still capable of witnessing to and protecting the truth of marriage and the unique place of a mother and a father. It can keep the space open to the unique truth of marriage and the family rather than claiming to replace or substitute it. The difference (i.e., the essential place of sexual difference for marriage and family) is still respected. This respect is a vital formational aspect for the children who are found in such situations.
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