Happily ever after.Whether you're you're Contraction of you are. you're you are you're be gay or straight, getting married improves mental health. That's the conclusion of a majority of representatives in the American Psychiatric Association The American Psychiatric Association (APA) is the main professional organization of psychiatrists and trainee psychiatrists in the United States, and the most influential world-wide. Its some 148,000 members are mainly American but some are international. , who voted during their annual meeting, held in Atlanta Atlanta (ətlăn`tə, ăt–), city (1990 pop. 394,017), state capital and seat of Fulton co., NW Ga., on the Chattahoochee R. and Peachtree Creek, near the Appalachian foothills; inc. 1847. on May 22, to urge legal recognition of civil marriage for gay couples. If approved by the association's directors in July, the statement, which cites the "positive influence of a stable, adult partnership on the health of all family members," would make the nation's top psychiatric psy·chi·at·ric adj. Of or relating to psychiatry. psychiatric adjective Pertaining to psychiatry, mental disorders group the first major medical association to take such a stance. It goes beyond the association's 2000 statement supporting same-sex civil unions. |
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