Is Same Sex Parenting Wrong?

[naomi24]

There has been a suggestion that same sex parents should be featured in school books, a proposal which has produced conflicting opinions – see AOG’s thread in News, “Should Same-Sex Parents Be Featured In School Books?” Consider this scenario. Two very young children, a boy and a girl, born to a drug addicted wreck of a mother and a drunken, serial criminal father, are thoroughly neglected, and subjected to daily mental and physical abuse. The authorities, quite rightly, remove them from the family home, and the children are subsequently adopted by two gay men - highly successful, wealthy, fine house in the country, apartment in the city – who provide their every need and, most importantly, love them dearly.

I know those children – and they are happy – but of those who say that same sex parenting is wrong, given the opportunity, who would remove them from their new home in favour of subjecting them to a life in care?

[jomifl]

The question should be 'Is it good for the children who are being 'parented''.
It seems to be a poorly thought through social experiment with children as guinea pigs. Can we rely on the children not being brainwashed ? it might just happen.

[jim360]

What would they be being brainwashed into? Homosexuality can't be forced on anyone, just as Heterosexuality can't be forced, despite the efforts in some parts of America to "cure" people of it.

[jackthehat]

Brainwashed?
Into being gay?

If that were possible, there would be NO gay people as they are usually the product of heterosexual relationships........and they haven't been brainwashed into being 'straight'!!!

[jno]

if you mean brainwashed into thinking gay is okay... well, I wouldn't have a problem with that. Tolerance is worth teaching.

[Arti]

It's a tricky one this. I think that it shouldn't matter what gender the parents are, but I remember how embarrassed I felt at school being from a one-parent family (even though it wasn't that long ago). I can't begin to imagine how a child of a same-sex couple must feel. I know that the only way to progress things like this is for it to happen, but I feel that it's not fair for a child to be the vanguard.

[jomifl]

Jumping to conclusions again, as expected.
Perhaps brainwashed into thinking that heterosexuality is abnormal. Some gays can be pretty strident. Consider that some deaf couples want their children to be deaf because they consider deafness to be normal. I don't know how they arrive at that conclusion but some do, really.

[jackthehat]

I don't think any gay couple would be 'strident' enough to overrule a child's innate sexuality.

As I've already pointed out, it certainly doesn't work in the opposite direction....

[jomifl]

JTH, I think there are just too many unknowns. I don't suppose that gays are any better in that respect than heterosexuals, they might well have good reason to load their children with baggage to some degree. I expect some sociologists will do well out of it over the next couple of decades.