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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: Lane3 who wrote (71432)8/4/2003 10:50:00 AM
From: The Philosopher  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
There is but
one independent variable. We risk that the children will have gender identity
problems.

Not at all. There are numerous studies that show that children raised by a single parent of either sex are prone to weaknesses in other areas of their development. Men and women bring different things to the process of child rearing. A child with both male and female role models has a better chance of developing into a fully complete person.

Of course, there are bad role models as well as good, bad parents as well as good, and all that. There are children of single parents who turn out fine, and there are children of intact couples who turn out to be disasters.

But the ideal for a child appears pretty clearly to be an intact, healthy family with one male and one female role model bringing their different skills, experiences, and attributes to bear on the raising of children. Anything less than this is less than ideal.

We do accept that there are many times when this ideal doesn't exist. Despite the imprecations of Dr. Laura, we allow parents to divorce even when we know it will hurt the children. We don't force single parents to marry.

But those are somewhat different from legally creating and sanctioning a relationship which starts out being less than ideal for children.
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