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Originally Posted by Gn2Dlnd
I agree with everything you say, except the part about a parent of each gender. My growing up Gay wasn't at all helped by my (eventually divorced and constantly screaming at each other) intergender parents. I don't think gender should enter, at all, in a child's education regarding interpersonal relationships. However, all things being equal, I was fed and clothed, driven to school and rehearsals, given swimming lessons, inocculated, taken on camping trips and to Disneyland, and generally raised as well as anyone else was raising kids in the 60's and 70's. Best? No. Good? Usually. Could it have been better? You bet. I love my parents, but I wouldn't want to live with them.
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I do think that kids are served better by regular and consistent exposure to adults of both genders interacting in a sane and positive way. The most convenient way to do this is to have one sane and functional parent of each gender interacting in a thoroughly nurturing and positive environment. [This is based in large part on my belief that men and women ARE different and pretending otherwise is a bunch of hoohaw. But that's another discussion.]
The reality is that we're all human and Utopia Happy-Family Land doesn't exist. Plenty of hetero parents scream at each other night and day. And plenty of gay and/or single parents do an exemplary job of filling in the gender "gap" with assistance from family and friends. Might not be best/perfection, but it's pretty damn good.