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Your parents are unhappy with your grades; your teacher has decided to give you extra homework; there is a big test next week. What else can go wrong? So many problems at the same time, what to do? Well, dear friend, welcome to the world of “pressure”.
“Pressure” means that people are expecting a lot of you. It also means that you sometimes have to do a lot of things in a short period of time. Pressure seems to be a part of modern life; everyone feels it. People feel pressure at work, students feel pressure at school and everyone sometimes feels the pressure of trying to please their friends and family.
Pressure can be good thing. When you are under pressure it helps you to concentrate and think hard about the problems that have to be solved. It forces you to organize your time, to decide which problems are more important and which are less important. And, in the end, when you have faced these problems you become a better,
ay marriage, and especially gay parenting, has been in the cross hairs in recent days.
On Jan. 6, Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum told a New Hampshire audience that children are better off with a father in prison than being raised in a home with lesbian parents and no father at all. And last Monday (Jan. 9)， Pope Benedict called gay marriage a threat "to the future of humanity itself," citing the need for children to have heterosexual homes.
But research on families headed by gays and lesbians doesn't back up these dire assertions. In fact, in some ways, gay parents may bring talents to the table that straight parents don't.
Gay parents "tend to be more motivated, more committed than heterosexual parents on average, because they chose to be parents," said Abbie Goldberg, a psychologist at Clark University in Massachusetts who researches gay and lesbian parenting. Gays and lesbians rarely become parents by accident, compa