nakedemperor
Senior Member
What a horror story. Childen this boy's age have no knowledge of sex or sexuality; the concept of a mommy-mommy family, for a 5-year old, is devoid of any sexual meaning. It is not an 'introduction to homosexuality', it is an introduction to a reality that is without negative or (at his age) sexual connotation.
To date, there haven't been any large-sample profiles of the benefits of a heterosexual family over a homosexual family. The 50+ smaller research papers on the subject have been consistantly positive in their assesment of the capabilities of a same-sex marriage to produce a flourishing child.
An excerpt from a reasononline.com article:
Couple this with the fact that the AAP and the Children's Welfare League endorse same-sex adoption rights, it paints a clear picture that homosexual couples are capable parents. The point I'm trying to make is that there's nothing wrong with acknolwedging their existance in schools, just like there's nothing wrong with acknolwedging heterosexual parent couples in schools. The oft-repeated mantra of 'children need a mother and a father' certainly sounds nice, but lacks any scientific or sociological basis.
To date, there haven't been any large-sample profiles of the benefits of a heterosexual family over a homosexual family. The 50+ smaller research papers on the subject have been consistantly positive in their assesment of the capabilities of a same-sex marriage to produce a flourishing child.
An excerpt from a reasononline.com article:
Reasononline said:Opponents of gay parenting, for the most part, have been forced to fall back on the assertion that the jurys still out. Notingcorrectlythat none of the research on children of gay couples made use of the large random samples that generate the most robust results, they claim studies to date provide no basis for supposing that gay parents wont be inferior. But as New York University sociologist Judith Stacey argues, they have to stretch pretty far to find that. The studies have been very consistent and very positive. Stacey concedes that most of them are small scale but adds that there are some 50 studies now, and we dont see them going the other way. I have yet to see one legitimate refereed publication or scholar come out with a generally negative finding.
Couple this with the fact that the AAP and the Children's Welfare League endorse same-sex adoption rights, it paints a clear picture that homosexual couples are capable parents. The point I'm trying to make is that there's nothing wrong with acknolwedging their existance in schools, just like there's nothing wrong with acknolwedging heterosexual parent couples in schools. The oft-repeated mantra of 'children need a mother and a father' certainly sounds nice, but lacks any scientific or sociological basis.