Well, your free to disagree. We're all entitled to our own opinions. I believe a child learns a wider array of different and distinct values and lessons from opposite sex parents than from two of the same. I know a couple of gay men that adopted a Vietnamese girl and although their hearts are in the right place, I think they're doing pretty a lackluster job of raising her. Of course that's just one example and not to be taken as a standard from which all others are to be judged.
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Posts: 2473 (11/10/09 1:55 PM) |
Well, your free to disagree. We're all entitled to our own opinions. I believe a child learns a wider array of different and distinct values and lessons from opposite sex parents than from two of the same. I know a couple of gay men that adopted a Vietnamese girl and although their hearts are in the right place, I think they're doing pretty a lackluster job of raising her. Of course that's just one example and not to be taken as a standard from which all others are to be judged.
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Have you seriously never met straight couples who are complete failures at teaching their children "different and distinct values and lessons"?
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Posts: 2476 (11/10/09 2:32 PM) |
Have you seriously never met straight couples who are complete failures at teaching their children "different and distinct values and lessons"? Sure. I've met a few. |
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Posts: 1028 (11/10/09 2:39 PM) |
I met a straight "Christian" couple once, who, being biracially married, had agreed to be the guardian of the biracial adopted child of gay friends,
should anything happen to the child's parents (both male). They told me quite openly that they had no intention of raising the child, but would do their
best to locate another adoptive family for the child, and if this failed, they would allow the child to be shuffled into the foster care system.
They thought straight couples were better parents than gay couples, too. Of course, they're just one example.
It's what you do that makes your soul.
--Barbara Kingsolver
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Posts: 2477 (11/10/09 3:10 PM) |
I met a straight "Christian" couple once, who, being biracially married, had agreed to be the guardian of the biracial adopted child of gay friends, should anything happen to the child's parents (both male). They told me quite openly that they had no intention of raising the child, but would do their best to locate another adoptive family for the child, and if this failed, they would allow the child to be shuffled into the foster care system. Did you inform the gay couple of the Christian couples planned duplicity ? |
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Posts: 3074 (11/11/09 8:06 AM) Footloose and Feather-Free |
Every adult I know who was fucked up by their parents had one of each. Doesn't seem to have provided anything special for generations of children so far.
I'm open to something new.
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Posts: 1345 (11/11/09 1:28 PM) Provocateur in Chief |
I'm totally with you there, MB.
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