The results are in, folks: Kids who grew up with two moms are thriving. Data shows that children who grow up in two-mom families fare just as well as other children, though the kids may tell you there was no need for academic to determine what they already knew.

Social media has given these kids a platform to tell their own stories, to share with the world just how much they love their moms and how the only confusing part of their childhoods was when other people didn’t understand something so simple: that love makes a family.

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These heartwarming videos depict kids gushing about the upbringings their moms provided, mocking heternormative traditions and assumptions, and overall just enjoying their lives surrounded by the love of the people who worked desperately to create them or give them homes.

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