Marriage is a fundamental personal right, but it is also good for families and for society. There are about 9 million gay people in the U.S. According to the 2010 census about 640,000 same-sex couple households, there are a lot of people who were denied of important legal and social benefits unless gay marriage is (1). Gay families have been believed being real families for decades now, even in the absence of full sanction of marriage. They've shown they have the same (2) and need as other families for love and support. There are already 1 million children in the country being raised by gay parents. The social science data show that parental (3) has no relationship to good parenting. Every major child welfare organization and every major psychological professional association support same-sex marriage as a way to improve children's lives. But like everyone else, gay families have the problems with illnesses, with injuries, and with (4) if they lack the irreplaceable social and legal rights that the marriage confers. Marriage is desired to impose obligations and confer rights and sustain a couple in time of crisis, as when one person is in a hospital, you need to (5) that room, or when you need to take time off to take care of a partner. By social expectation, to some extent by law, marriage encourages spouses to (6) each other. It gives them a common language in which to speak about their relationships, and a common framework in which to think about their (7) to each other that gives them a degree of (8) and support that civil union and domestic partnerships which are each a separate and new status under the law simply cannot confer. On the other hand, (9) . In fact, in the states and countries where same-sex couples have been allowed to marry, there has been no harmful effect on marriage rates, divorce rates or out-of-wedlock childbirth. Massachusetts, which was the first state in the country to recognize gay marriages, still has the lowest divorce rate in the country. (10) , that's like telling a Catholic that he is free to go and worship god in a synagoge that's a mockery of freedom. The bottom line in marriage is fundamental in the formation of personal relationships and families for gay people just like for straight people. So the government shouldn't limit the freedom to marry.