The Family
Dr. Mark Regnerus, associate professor at the University of Texas-Austin, led a team of researchers on a “parenting” study labeled: How different are the adult children of parents who have same-sex relationships? Findings from the New Family Structures Study. The study was published in the journal Social Science Research. Homosexual activists went “nuts” over the findings. According to Regnerus, children raised by homosexual parents are more likely than those raised by married heterosexual parents to suffer from poor impulse control, depression and suicidal thoughts, require mental health therapy; identify themselves as homosexual; choose cohabitation; be unfaithful to partners; contract sexually transmitted diseases; be sexually molested; have lower income levels; drink to get drunk; and smoke tobacco and marijuana.”
The concept of family is extremely important in the Bible, both in a physical and theological sense. The concept of family was introduced in the beginning in Genesis 1:28, And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
God's plan was for men and women to marry and have children. A man and a woman would form a "one-flesh" union through marriage (Genesis 2:24), and they with their children become a family, the essential building block of human society.
When we are born physically, we’re born into a physical family, but when we are "born again," we are born into a spiritual family. As the Apostle Paul said, we are adopted into God's family (Romans 8:15). When we are adopted into God's spiritual family, God becomes our Father
So what does the Bible say about family? The physical family is the most important building block to human society, and as such, it should be nurtured and protected. But more important than that is the family you join as a new creature in Christ (II Corinthians 5:17).