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Parenting Official Says Lesbians Make 'Better Parents'
Stephen Scott, director of research at the National Academy for Parenting Practitioners, says that lesbian couples have traditional couples licked when it comes to raising children. He cites research that suggests children with two female parents are more aspirational than those with opposite-sex parents. From the article, "Research at Birkbeck College, part of London University, and Clark University in Massachusetts suggests that same-sex couples make good parents because children cannot be conceived accidentally — parents must make an active decision to adopt or find a sperm donor. "
A male role-model perhaps? Psychologically important for both males and females. Basic psychology here...
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It kind of seems like men are just big, hairy, smelly, and violent brutes who are completely superceded by women. It seems like all the PC research that comes out says that women are better at basically everything.
There's actually some truth in that : as society becomes more and more regimented and controlled and more 'civilized', men are at a disadvantage. A lot of the risk taking behaviors that men were rewarded for in the past are now likely to result in problems. Since so few people in society die from violence, the protective abilities of men are now not so valuable.
There are some valuable roles for men, still. Basically everything that was ever invented or designed was created by a man, even now. While some may blame societal pressure, I suspect than men's neural nets may make them better inventors and engineers on average than women.
We're biologically programmed to react to the sexes. I know in a comment to an article on gay couples this seems like a counter assertion, but it's not. You can grow up het or grow up gay, but your relationships with women will be different from your relationships with men. It comes from not just the parents but all of society bombarding you with sex role differences. However, the very strongest influence is the one right there in the house.
Rather than go all PC on his ass, a more reasonable tack would be to point to single parents. Kids coming from single parent families can do just fine in the sex role area.
That said, in this case, they have an example (unless the parents break up, which gays do just like breeders) of a loving relationship between their parents, which is certainly a good thing, but certainly they'll have less of a straight-forward, societal norms compliant, sex/role match according to the common paradigm as one would if his or her mother and father were were Farah Fawcett and Vin Diesel.
I knew one little girl who was raised by two mommies. It was interesting. With her mom around, she was a little beast, yelling at me, an adult, if I was walking into the neighbor's yard to chat with him, "You're not allowed there" or if in the kitchen, "You're not allowed to eat that". Etcetera etcetera.
But when her mommy wasn't around, she was a perfect angel, a little precious sweetheart you'd love for a daughter who would sit on your lap for hours while you told her stories - asked politely to hold your hand when you crossed the street. Her mom was putting her up to telling people off. Very unpleasant behavior, really.
But that aside, what are women teaching our children anyway? To sit still in a classroom, and then an office? Not to make waves. To work your eight hours, buy your meat at the store, go home watch Dancing With The Idols, and sleep to do it again tomorrow?
That's a load of BS. It's time for men to be men. We should be able to hunt. We should be able to confront each other. We should be encouraged to compete and to play and to roughhouse.
In an effort to increase the role of women in society, we have changed the role of men. That's why more girls go to college today than boys. That's why girls do better in school. That's why women under 30 make more than men. Congratulations, society has changed. Women did not become winners and equal to men, but rather men lost what they were and what made life fun.
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Well, 4 tits are better then 2, that's only advantage I see otherwise ....
According to the research literature in Psychology, which was collected by lesbian psychologists with a pro-lesbian bias, lesbian parents of adopted children leave the child in a confused state, because the lesbian parents have other sexual partners.
with your "have traditional couples licked.." pun....
You're referring to cunnilingus.......yes, see, because the article is about lesbians...yeah...nicely done. You, sir, are a treasure...
But in all seriousness, I think that it ridiculous that people are against same sex parents; it's not like those of us who are heterosexual have done such a great job - plenty of people do, but plenty of people don't...If someone wants to raise a child and is going to give that child/children love and take care of them, then it shouldn't matter what their gender attraction is. Parents are parents, and the people who have this hatred or bias towards gey people need to get over it, because gay people have been around since the beginning of time and they'll be around - it seems to be inherent in nature.
It makes me wonder why people fight it, but then I remember that often the staunchest anti-gay legislators and politicians are the ones who are secretly gay.....
Unfortunately, I think this is a classic case of correlation being mistaken for causation. The post itself says the reason they're better parents is that they don't have kids by accident. In other words, the real lesson here is that parents who want their kids make better parents. Gasp!
Although I oppose government-defined same-sex marriage, I can't complain about same-sex couples adopting. If singles can adopt, same-sex couples should be able to as well. I may not agree with their morality, but then again, I don't agree with most peoples' morality, and they still get to adopt.
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i volunteer to impregnate these women... so long as they are healthy and attractive to mine eyes. It's for the good of the gene pool!
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