DO CHILDREN NEED A MOTHER AND A FATHER? John Jakala replies to Eve

I don't understand your position. You say "I'm not advocating for rigid, cliched gender roles" but you insist that gender can only "properly" be taught/learned within an opposite-sex parental structure. Why? Wouldn't boys and girls raised by same-sex parents still emerge as male and female? Sure, their particular manifestations of male and female might look different from others', but don't children from different opposite-sex marriages exhibit different flavors of maleness and femaleness? I can agree (with the proper qualifications, of course) that "gender is real and we want it"; I just can't buy into the limited options you seem to be offering.
posted by Eve at 9:05 AM VOTE

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