SAME-SEX PARENTING: Michael Triplett

Do children need a mother and a father?

This is one of those difficult questions to answer because it requires us to view both a utopian fantasy and then an actual reality.

In a utopian fantasy, every child would have a mother and a father. In this same fantasy, parents would have government-paid family leave, a secure social safety net, no poverty, no racism, no sexism and no war.

In the real world, however, none of these fantasies will ever come true. Divorce will happen, poverty exists, racism exisits, little family leave is available, and war occurs throughout the world. If the choice is children living in orphanages, horrific foster care situations, utter poverty, and homes fraught with violence and neglect, then a child raised in a happy home with a single parent or two
parents of the same sex is a wonderful alternative.

The family advocates on the right who talk about the ideal family are as idealistic and unrealistic as the family advocates on the left who talk about eliminating marriage as the core legal relationship in family law.

Does this mean that one gives up hoping for this utopian fantasy that the social conservative elites have created for what families should look like? Probably not. But since same-sex parents are the least of the worries for American families, time would probably be better spent resolving how families have fallen apart and children discarded, not the impact of having two, loving parents who happen to be of the same gender.
posted by Eve at 1:01 AM VOTE

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