The Australian Medical Association (AMA) has distanced itself from a group of prominent doctors who say heterosexual marriage is better for children.
Around 150 medical practitioners from the group Doctors For The Family, including a member of Victoria's Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, have signed a submission opposing same-sex marriage to the Senate inquiry into marriage equality...
"It's well proven that children who grow up with a mother and a father in a biological mother-and-father family do better than children who don't have the opportunity to grow up in that kind of family," he said.
But AMA president Steve Hambleton has rejected the claims, saying there is no evidence suggesting children with same-sex parents are any different to those with heterosexual parents.
"There is a growing body of evidence that says there's no difference in their psychological development, their general health, their sexual orientation," he said.
