Shouild Same-Sex Parents Be Featured In School Books?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/10171005/Same-sex-parents-should-be-featured-in-school-books.html

Would this type of thing be beneficial to children as young as five, or only create confusion?

[Octavius]

Oh trigg, did you not know? She died.

[ummmm]

WHY? Why tell him that? He'll be so upset now!

[naomi24]

Oh, triggs, I'm so sorry! It's not true..... I was telling fibs!! She's alive and kicking - just like that supreme dude you mentioned. There! Happy now? :o)

[Octavius]

Sorry trigg. You needed to know the truth.

I suppose this is also the appropriate place to tell you that she was also a man called Brian who just liked wearing fairy dresses.

[joeluke]

Good job kids can also be educated at home to right the wrongs that schools and the rest of society try to teach them is normal

[jim360]

Quite. Like respect for others' private family life, and respect for other cultures... It's those sorts of thing that are a real blight on our society these days.

[sp1814]

naomi24:

[i]The real reason that people object is because adults associate both marriage and same sex relationships with sex – but little children don’t do that. I know a little boy who often asks me where my friend is. He means my husband – but in his mind, my husband is simply my friend – and I think that is how little children perceive relationships between adults. I know gay couples who are raising happy children – and I’ve never known any of the children or their friends to question the relationship between ‘daddy’ and ‘daddy’ – or ‘mummy’ and ‘mummy’. To a child, that’s just the way it is. I can’t really see the problem.[i]

What a thoroughly perfect answer.

[joeluke]

So how come we don't see Merry Xmas ‘daddy’ and ‘daddy’ – or ‘mummy’ and ‘mummy’ cards in High Street shops then if it's so 'normal'?

[jim360]

Because we barely even legalised the things!

[sp1814]

joeluke

Have you ever seen a Merry Christmas Mummy and Daddy card?

Not common are they.

[joeluke]

sp......Merry Xmas Mam and Dad?

Pretty common I reckon

[pixie373]

It's taken long enough to get cards for stepdad!

[LazyGun]

I am not saying you are wrong, joeluke - but I honestly cannot remember ever seeing a "Merry Christmas Mum and Dad" or a "Merry Christmas Sis" card.

I have seen plenty of merry christmas cards which the sender then personalises by addressing them to mum and dad or whatever.....

Like any other naming convention though, the fuss over this will die down and it will bed in, over time...

[Octavius]

joeluke, especially for you.


http://www.greetingcarduniverse.com/holidays/christmas/forfamilyrelationspecific/bothmydadsfathersmytwodads

with love at Xmas.
xx

[joeluke]

Octavius......my post said High Street not website

[sp1814]

Nope joeluke...I can honestly say that I've never seen a merry Christmas Mum and Dad card.

Have you?

Did you source these cards each year for your parents?

Also, I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. I think you're conflating 'normal' with 'common'.

I'd argue that they are not necessarily synonyms.

[Sqad]

Joeluke

http://www.greetingcarduniverse.com/shopping/zoom.asp?pid=962787&w=1&ref=details_large_view&view=front

There we are....even Santa's reindeers are homosexual......

We are sailing now into uncharted and exciting waters and is now a time for a change at the helm. i am confident that we have people of the calibre and expertise that can guide us into a New World with all the advantages that it will give.

Let's get behind them (ooooh! sorry)