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Over two tenths Ohio legislators They are pushing an account that for weeks between Mother’s Day and father is designated as a “natural family month”, causing a return reaction from some LGBTQ families, according to reports.
State MPs Beth Lear and Josh Williams, both Republicans, said they had introduced House Bill 262 To celebrate families and emphasize their critical role in society, at a time when marriages and birth rates are declining.
“At a time when the marriage is moving down and young couples often decide to run out of children, it is important that the state Ohio is to declare that marriage and families are the cornerstone of civil society and absolutely imperative if we want to maintain a healthy and stable Republic,” the public said in a statement.
“Since America is facing the decline of birth rates and the reduction of the population, we can no longer afford to neglect the fundamental role that strong families play in maintaining our future,” I said in a statement.
According to the CDC report, the birth rate decreased to the historic low in 2023. (Photo Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
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“HB 262 talks about more than a politics-it is about promoting the economic and social stability that results from the raising of children in healthy, two-born households. We need to use any tool at our disposal to support families that build the next generation of Americans,” he added.
The account does not define what it does “natural” familyBut Williams told NBC News that the law was intended for “promoting natural families – meaning a man, a woman and their children – as a way to encourage a higher birth rate.”
The birth rate in the USA has fallen on Historical low 2023, according to the CDC report published last year.
Has recently reported a CDC This birth rate increased by 1% compared to 2023, which “increased the increase in the general fertility rate by less than 1%”.
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Some marriage rates have also experienced a shift down in the last few decades. Pew Research Center reported that the number of 40-year-olds in the US never got married reached the record 2021.
However, the bill criticized the LGBTQ community, according to WLWT5 and NBC News reports.
The resident of Ohija Vanessa Melendez, who identifies herself as a lesbian, is a married mother of two children living with her wife, adopted daughter and pastor from a previous marriage, at College Hill.
Melendez struck the lawmakers in Ohi for using the word “natural” in their family account, saying that she excludes families like hers and others who adopted, imagined IVF or raise children without partners.
“An elephant in the room about how they positioned it is on the words” natural “,” melendez said WLWT5. “And I think what they say is if there is only one way to be a natural family, which is not completely true.”
One LGBTQ family pushed a Republican account in Ohi to create a “natural family month”. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
“They really come afterwards in a very narrow, exclusive way and give only a description of a kind of family,” Melendez added. “We do not want to take away from that kind of family, but there are so many other types of families.”
Williams defended an account NBC NewsBy saying that the bill is not intended for a discriminator, but it is intended to support the family structure that is “directly related to the creation and upbringing of children”.
“According to the same logic, all families need to be celebrated,” Williams said also said WLWT5. “Then you could go to June and say that we should not have a month because all sexual orientation should be celebrated, not just those who are alternatives to the main course.”
Williams, who is black, raised a single mother, grew up in poverty and experienced homelessness, claimed that Vineyss had negative effects on the black community.
State Ambassador Josh Williams, R-Ohio, said the statistics show that black children were raised without fathers in home experience higher poverty rates, giving up on school and dealing with criminal behavior. (East)
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“And we know the statistics that shows that it results in a higher poverty rate, a higher rate of leaving school, a higher rate, a higher public aid rate, a higher rate of participation in criminal behavior,” WLWT5 told WLWT5.
Williams and Lear did not go back immediately Fox News Digital’s Request for comment.
