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Children need love, stability, security. One parent can provide those things. 2 parents, all the better. The gender of the parents is absolutely immaterial.
So your dad could have been a woman and everything about your life would have been just the same?
I know many other families with no father, or 'father-figure',
and the offspring are all highly non-functional.
If they are "non-functional" according to you then the problem lies with their parenting skills and not their "gender".
Please tell us how many "non-functional" kids we have that have a "mother" and a "father"?
Answer? Plenty!
It's hard to say as the personality would have been different.
I'm not saying that lesbians raising a child is a tragedy, imo it's just not as optimal.
Daughters have a special relationship with their fathers and mothers have a special relationship with their sons. These relationships can't be substituted with someone of the same sex.
I'm not saying that lesbians raising a child is a tragedy, imo it's just not as optimal.
Daughters have a special relationship with their fathers and mothers have a special relationship with their sons. These relationships can't be substituted with someone of the same sex.
I don't really think that's true. All parents have special relationships with their children, they are special because they are unique. If you are talking about parental gender influence and modeling, just having 2 parents of different genders is not always a good thing if one of them is ineffective. In my opinion having 2 involved parents who love their children, and surrounding the family with people who offer positive influence is optimal.
When the info on Wiki can be vetted from other reliable sources, why not use it?
All the vetted info can be found at the bottom of the page and examined.
I agree!! Then there's this.............Guess it's all in who's reliable opinion your looking for................
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