First Baltic gay pride march takes place in Riga

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Solver
I believe, though, that a child needs two parents, a father and a mother, to grow up in the best possible way. I'm not really sure whether having two parents of the same gender is good for a child.

You're assuming, of course, there's a surfeit of Ozzie-and-Harriet families out there to be adopted into. There's not.

So for the orphan, choose one of the following:
(a) growing up with a gay or lesbian family
(b) growing up in an orphanage, or being shuffled from foster home to foster home.

[Solver]

I'm sure that an orphan who is, say, 4 years old or older would gladly grow up with gays or lesbians - who can obviously be as good or as bad parents as straight people. For a toddler, though, I am not sure if a gay family would be healthy - because the child wouldn't understand it at that point, and would lack attention from the other gender. That might lead to hard-to-predict situations, perhaps.

Assuming that to adopt a child the child's consent is needed (as it often is, and should be, the case), I can easily see how growing up in a gay family is better than an orphanage. Then again, I think that good gay parents should not forget or hesitate to explain to their child why they're two of the same gender, as well as show that it's not an extremely common thing.

[Kuciwalker]

I'm sure that an orphan who is, say, 4 years old or older would gladly grow up with gays or lesbians - who can obviously be as good or as bad parents as straight people. For a toddler, though, I am not sure if a gay family would be healthy - because the child wouldn't understand it at that point, and would lack attention from the other gender. That might lead to hard-to-predict situations, perhaps.

Would they have that attention from both genders at an orphanage? At least, in sufficient amounts?

[Solver]

In an orphanage, they would likely have equally insufficient attention from both genders. Growing up as an infant in a gay family, I assume the child would grow very weary of the other gender - a child tends not to accept easily what he doesn't see, and if he only sees two men caring for him, he might find it hard later to accept that women can do it, too. Maybe I'm completely wrong, but I think that's how it would happen. I don't know, I was lucky enough to have all the neccessary things when being brought up myself.

[Kuciwalker]

Growing up as an infant in a gay family, I assume the child would grow very weary of the other gender - a child tends not to accept easily what he doesn't see, and if he only sees two men caring for him, he might find it hard later to accept that women can do it, too.

Not being a psychologist, I assume you are pulling this out of your ass.

[Solver]

Sort of. That's what seems to be the most likely case to me, though, and then again, I think that psychologists pull 95% of what they say out of their ass and add 5% of obviously simple truths to that .

[MrFun]

The destruction of family values is spreading to other parts of the world!?!?

[Last Conformist]

Originally posted by notyoueither


Maybe they're responding to being told they should be ashamed of themselves?

Maybe so. Daft attitudes don't stop being daft because they're provoked.

[Asher]

This is in no way interesting. In fact, the Baltic should be banned from having any newsworthy events.

[Last Conformist]

Say that again when the Latvian infantrymen come for you!

[Seeker]

I just finished 'the Republic'...there are greeks who are NOT gay??!!

Being proud about arranging a gay march in athens is like talking about how difficult it was to hold an NRA meeting in Alabama.

[St Leo]

Originally posted by Asher
This is in no way interesting. In fact, the Baltic should be banned from having any newsworthy events.

Why must you hate my homeland?^-^

[DanS]

Shoot, they got one of those parades every week around these parts. Blasé.