A friend of mine is in a relationship with an older lady, she has a daughter and was previously married to a man. The guy basically said when he found out she was pregnant, he didn't want it and handed her the divorce papers. The daughter who is now older speaks of her second mom as being more a parent than her dad ever was ( hardly ever payed child support) I feel that being in a heterosexual relationship with two parents does not automatically qualify the parents as good parents. We see rampant evidence of child abuse and neglect in our country.
Now the above grandparents,if it was my situation where they made that type of threat,I'd probably disown them, they really have no business trying to run the daughters life, and I probably would have moved to a more liberal state just to get away from them.
What makes a good parent for the child has nothing to do with the sexual orientation of the parent but the character of the parent.(And of course the quality of the parenting) How does the sexuality of the parent determine the fitness of a parent?( Our gentalia determine a good parent?)And what about all the shelters that are overflowing with women who had to escape an abusive relationship with their husband? If anything ,what hurts childen is living in the kind of environment these women were trying to escape.
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06-06-2007, 03:15 AM
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