Illuminattile said:
I suppose you think that if a mother dies in childbirth, the child should be taken away from the father and put up for adoption?
LOL you are way too quick to make wild assumptions!.
Just because a mother died at birth that doesn't in anyway mean the father is left with no choice but to give his child up for adoption or raise his child
alone. The support needed to raise a child by an unexperienced father would start rolling in from every direction. From his Parents, Sisters, Cousins, Aunts, Friends and so on. Thats not mentioning his wifes family and relatives as well. Plenty of help available to raise the child in a rare unfortunate case such as this one.
And if a baby is abandoned by her mother and the adoption agency cannot find a same-sex couple to adopt it, you'd rather the child have no parents than two parents of the same sex?
You mean if the agency can't find an opposite-sex couple?
In this case, if opposite-sex couples and foster care etc are out of the picture thus leaving the agency with 2 choices either 1. throw the child away or 2. give the child up to a same-sex couple, i'd choose the latter
Dont get me wrong, 2 fathers or 2 mothers are always better than a child left with no parents at all. I just think same-sex couples adopting should be a last resort, for example in cases such as the one you mentioned.
fathering scholar Dr. Kyle Pruett of Yale Medical School in his book Fatherneed: Why Father Care is as Essential as Mother Care for Your Child.
Pruett says dads matter simply because “fathers do not mother.” Psychology Today explains, “fatherhood turns out to be a complex and unique phenomenon with huge consequences for the emotional and intellectual growth of children.” A father, as a male parent, brings unique contributions to the job of parenting that a mother cannot.
Likewise, a mother, as a female parent, "uniquely impacts the life and development of her child", as Dr. Brenda Hunter explains in her book, The Power of Mother Love: Transforming Both Mother and Child. Erik Erikson explained that father love and mother love are qualitatively different kinds of love. Fathers “love more dangerously” because their love is more “expectant, more instrumental” than a mother’s love.
Like you said studies have shown that children raised in gay and lesbian households fare no worse than those reared in traditional families.
however, Upon closer examination and more recent Research and studies, do infact state children raised in traditional families by a mother and father are happier, healthier, and more successful than children raised in non-traditional environments.
