AUSTRALIAN FAMILY GUIDE CHALLENGED: From the Herald Sun

CHILDCARE staff are using taxpayer-funded booklets to teach toddlers about gay families.

A booklet called We're Here, used in more than 2000 children's centres, encourages staff to use stories, books, posters, games and dolls to actively challenge homophobia.

Suggestions include:

CHANGING Father's Day to "A Day for Someone Special".

USING the terms Partner A and Partner B on forms instead of Mum and Dad.

TELLING children that "some families don't have dads".

In one suggested role playing scenario, children are introduced to Toby, a doll which has "two mums, June and Alice".

The booklet has been slammed by the Australian Family Association and the State Opposition as an assault on parents' rights.

The We're Here booklet was funded by the City of Darebin through a community grants scheme. It is distributed by FKA Children's Services, which is funded by the State and Federal Governments.

More than 2000 copies of the booklet have been distributed around Victoria in the past year.

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