1.   Lawyers for the state argued before Chang at a nine-day nonjury trial in September that children are best raised by two heterosexual parents.

2.   Most, it said, found that the children of gay or lesbian parents were as well adjusted socially and psychologically as the children of heterosexual parents.

3.   None of the children of heterosexual parents reported such a relationship.

4.   Several studies find that lesbian co-mothers share family responsibilities more equally than comparable heterosexual married parents.

5.   The names of both members of the civil union will go on the birth certificate, just as in the case of heterosexual parents.

6.   Unsurprisingly, a few studies find that lesbian parents worry less than heterosexual parents about the gender conformity of their children.

7.   The proposal was based on findings from a parliamentary research committee, saying homosexual couples have the same ability to care for children as heterosexual parents.

8.   The thrust of those studies was that children raised by same-sex parents were no different from those reared by heterosexual parents.

9.   But researcher Sune Innala from Lund University argued that children with homosexual parents are no different than those with heterosexual parents.