While state legislatures and courts continue to struggle with same sex marriages, civil unions, and adoptions by gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered people, the states have pretty much resolved how to handle family disputes arising in these groups. Families come in all sizes, colors, shapes-and sexual identities. While state legislatures and courts continue to struggle with same sex marriages, civil unions, and adoptions by gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered people, the states have pretty much resolved how to handle family disputes arising in these groups.