To Be a Gay’s Child
Children are not supposed to know about their parents’ sexual lives nor details of intimacy-gay or heterosexual. Being in a steady gay relationship does not change that value. But the focus should be the ‘steady’ (stability or whatever you call it). What matters is that children are raised by a sense of love, appreciation and safety. I think it’s really hard for people to see “gays” as anything close to being capable of providing that love and safety net. Perhaps high-profile stories like this could change the average mind: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/21/opinion/21bruni.html?src=ISMR_AP_LO_MST_FB
Being in a gay family certainly has its own complications, not related to sexual activity of the parents, but questions of paternity, [genetic] lineage and just the general burden of being different. I think another difficult thing to grasp for most, is the making of a child in a lab with donated sperm, egg and surrogate mother. Then again, it seems that gay couples go through so much trouble to bring a child into the world, wouldn’t you rather be THAT child, then the bastard of a drunken prom queen?
