He’s going to have two daddies

who has a problem with banning videos of rape, torture and bestiality in this country

You're the sort of person who needs to be kept well away from children.

My only position is that on the whole all others things being equal children benefit from having two sex role models inside the family and teachers outside of the family is in no way a replacement for sex role models inside the family...
Frankly I can not see for the life of me what your problem could be with those statements.

Sorry but would you care for me to post the hard crime statistic showing that children that grow up in households without any male role models for example are far more likely to become involved in the criminal justice system and have other bad outcomes.

I have to deal with your callous dismissal of my wife's death, followed by a period of pontification on matters you know absolutely nothing about. I wouldn't have minded had this come from some evangelical, because I would have known that at the very least they were concerned about the welfare of children.

That is the problem, in such households there is hardly any involvement with male role models, because most of the primary teachers, health and social workers are women.

As far as teachers are concern I am sure they made great role models for their own children but it is not either their job or place to have strong emotional bonding with the children that they teach of the kind that family adults would hopefully have with the family children.

Lord so let see it is now PC to take the stand that women and men bring the same things to the table in raising and enacting with children?

Same-sex couples can be effective parents, researchers find
1/21/2010
By Sharon Jayson, USA TODAY

Children raised by same-sex couples appear to do as well as those raised by parents of both sexes, suggests an international research review that challenges the long-ingrained belief that children need male and female parents for healthy adjustment.
"It's more about the quality of the parenting than the gender of the parents," says Judith Stacey of New York University, co-author of the comprehensive review. It will be published Friday in the Journal of Marriage and Family.

Sociologists Stacey and Timothy Biblarz of the University of Southern California, spent five years reviewing 81 studies of one- and two-parent families, including gay, lesbian and heterosexual couples. "No research supports the widely held conviction that the gender of parents matters for child well-being," they conclude.

"Children being raised by same-gender parents, on most all of the measures that we care about, self-esteem, school performance, social adjustment and so on, seem to be doing just fine and, in most cases, are statistically indistinguishable from kids raised by married moms and dads on these measures," Biblarz says.

Three researchers critiqued the effort; their comments appear in the same issue of the journal. Lisa Strohschein of the University of Alberta in Canada takes issue with the review's attempts to "tease out the effects of the parent's gender" from an array of variables.

She notes that many of the studies cited place differences in family type "in context with other factors that influence child outcomes," including number and gender of parents in the household, sexual identity, marital status and biogenetic relationship to children. The review, she says, "provided no such context."

Kyle Pruett, a clinical professor of psychiatry at the Yale University Child Study Center and co-author of the 2009 book Partnership Parenting,has not seen the research review. But he says "you can't take gender out of the world."

He says that as adults, "we are struggling to be politically correct about gender" when we should be thinking more about the children. "It's not about the supremacy of one gender over another or about the necessity of one gender over another," he says.

In addition to child outcomes, the sociologists reviewed parenting styles and found "two women who choose to parent together are slightly more likely than a heterosexual couple to be actively committed to hands-on parenting. We don't have data yet on two men parenting, but I think it will come out fairly similar," Stacey says.

Fatherhood expert Michael Lamb, a psychology professor at the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England, says he has changed his views about gender roles based on more recent research.

"Nothing about a person's sex determines the capacity to be a good parent," he says in an e-mail. "It is well-established that children do not need parents of each gender to adjust healthily."

And what about single parents?

"What counts a lot more than the number of parents is the quality," Stacey says. "It's definitely an advantage if there are two parents who get along over one parent. But if the two don't get along, sometimes one parent is better."
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2010-01-21-parentgender21_ST_N.htm

The picture that emerges from research is one of general engagement in social life with peers, parents, family members, and friends. Fears about children of lesbian or gay parents being sexually abused by adults, ostracized by peers, or isolated in single-sex lesbian or gay communities have received no scientific support. Overall, results of research suggest that the development, adjustment, and well-being of children with lesbian and gay parents do not differ markedly from that of children with heterosexual parents.
http://www.apa.org/about/governance/council/policy/parenting.aspx

So to state therefore that there is an intrinsic benefits to having role models of both sexes in a child life is no longer PC?

[Whoever else is in his life, and their gender, really is unimportant in the context of this thread, and frankly is none of your business.

Also, any family that feels there needs to be a 'sex role model,' is a family that should be investigated by social services.

role models in the home and increased involvement with the criminal justice system is also compounded (and contaminated) by factors such as low income and poverty, as well as the high risk factors of drugs, violence, gangs, and over-all crime, that permeate certain low income neighborhoods . It is not just the lack of a male role model in the home, or even in the school, socio-economic factors are a very salient variable.