Foxfyre wrote:My point all along has been that children benefit from having a mother AND a father in the home; otherwise they do not benefit from day in and day out parenting from each gender and the genders do, most often, parent differently providing a different kind of emotional undergirding to the developing child. Like the author of the above piece, I don't have time to hunt up a lot of statistics to support this though I have done so elsewhere in other places.
But what is it about having a mother and a father in the home that is so beneficial?
Is it because one is male and one is female?
Or is it more of the fact that they both have important roles in shaping the psychological and emotional development of the child? Conversely, if the mother acted like the father and the father acted like the mother, surely the children would still get the same "emotional undergirding"?
To deny otherwise would be sexist, stating that a woman cannot do a man's job in this world and that a man cannot do a woman's job. Obviously, a man cannot breastfeed, but apart from that what can't he do if he puts his mind to it?
Obviously, therefore if a homosexual couple were to adopt the roles of mother and father, that would result in a psychologically healthy child?
