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I have a gay friend in a relationship and they have been together for seven years. My friend used to be married and they had two kids. These two kids have been raised by the two males for the last seven years. The mom is a mess, never in the picture, hardly pays child support. These kids are the most well behaved, well taken care of and smart kids with excellent well adjusted personalities that you would ever meet. If you have two parents on board with the same plan for raising the kids, the gender doesn't matter. The kids are learning to love themselves, love others and be productive members of societyy regardless of what's going on at home.
We do hear from the gay couples that adopt babies, but babies can't tell the public how they feel. Now, what about hearing from older children that are being raised with a gay couple. Please go back and read my earlier reply to this Thread. I think I have some very viable statements/questions.
One thing to remember people, in any Thread there will be people that will totally agree with something and others that absolutely will not or are in the middle with "yes and no".
How do children handle it if they see their gay parents showing affection around them. A hug, a kiss, snuggle up on the couch......the type of affection that a man/woman parents could/would do around their children. In a man/woman parental situation, kids come into the bedroom and wake their parents up on Christmas morning. Do kids of gay parents do this? If kids are babies, they don't have a say on who they live with. What do older (pre-teen to teen) kids think of their gay parents sleeping together? How do the kids classmates treat them when they find out that the parents are gay? Just how does a kid introduce their gay parents to a friend?
Question would be......do gay parents have to act differently around their kids than man/woman parents?
You seem to be operating under the assumption that gay people live and show affection in a strange manner that would be a problem for children. Gay parents aren't any different from straight parents.
I don't know.......seeing two guys or ladies give each other a kiss is certainly different that a straight couple! And, yes, the kids going into the bedroom to wake up mom and dad to say "Santa's been here!" would seem somewhat odd being that it would be two women or two men in the bedroom!
There is a difference, at least in my opinion.
With what a large, part of society thinks about gay couples in the first place, I wouldn't want to be a child living with a gay couple in todays society. Do gay couples go to their kids sporting events, PTA meetings and other things that involve their kids? Just curious.
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Originally Posted by fleetiebelle
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you seem to be operating under the assumption that gay people live and show affection in a strange manner that would be a problem for children. Gay parents aren't any different from straight parents.
I like his point that gay couples don't have children by accident--they have to really want children to go through all that paperwork.
That’s a fantastic point. It’s unbelieveable how many parents there are out there that SHOULDN’T or DIDN’T WANT to be parents, but it just happened. No child needs a life like that.
Do gay couples go to their kids sporting events, PTA meetings and other things that involve their kids? Just curious.
Why wouldn't they? Again, gay parents aren't any different from straight parents. They go grocery shopping, they help with homework, they walk the dog. A child growing up in a household with gay parents isn't going to think that seeing their dads or moms hug each other or sleep in the same bed is unusual. And really, it's not.
wow what a great speech if a man and a woman having a kid is perfect, why are kids in foster care in the first place? great point. whoever is going to be a great parent to a kid should be allowed to adopt one!
I don't know.......seeing two guys or ladies give each other a kiss is certainly different that a straight couple! And, yes, the kids going into the bedroom to wake up mom and dad to say "Santa's been here!" would seem somewhat odd being that it would be two women or two men in the bedroom!
There is a difference, at least in my opinion.
With what a large, part of society thinks about gay couples in the first place, I wouldn't want to be a child living with a gay couple in todays society. Do gay couples go to their kids sporting events, PTA meetings and other things that involve their kids? Just curious.
Let me ask you this....do you think a kid would prefer living with foster parents and being bounced around to group homes in between moves or be with a stable gay couple that possibly might get the kid teased a bit. And i don't know what universe you live in but most kids straight or not don't want to see anyones parents showing affection .
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if a man and a woman having a kid is perfect, why are kids in foster care in the first place? great point. whoever is going to be a great parent to a kid should be allowed to adopt one!
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