Everybody needs somebody to love

I don't think it's that easy to just say yes or no to this issue because the people I have met that grew up in a same-sex household. Most people are so afraid that saying no would hurt somebody's feeling that there would an overwhelming yes to this issue. I think that Homosexual couples are more then adequate to raise a chid in a loving and nurturing environment, but on the opposite side of the coin the child could be raised in a very dysfunctional home... but the same thing could be said of straight couples. The problem for me from only saying yes is that it can get confusing for a child later in life. No matter how progressive some of us may say we are there is an overwhelming portion of the population that would not accept it and actually make the child's life hell. Now is that the parent's fault? No, but there's a lot of things that a parent can't do to protect their children 24/7. About 10 years ago I use to work with this kid who was raised in a same sex marriage. This kid was, to say the least, an odd duck. After I got to know him, he revealed that he was just angry because he was teased so much. Not to say that it's his parents fault, but his mothers can't be there to protect him 24/7. It can be very confusing for a teenager who wants to fit in, but can't because the other kids want to make fun of him for growing up with a, "Couple of Lesbos." There was a lot of things the guys around the shop had to teach him. These were things that we thought was common sense, or so I thought until I met him. Most men are taught that we shouldn't cry about our problems all the time. I mean really cry. He was confused why the girls he was dating always ended up dumping him after a while. Now most people in the class might interject and say I'm wrong on this, but it's been my experience that if a guy is way to open about his feelings and has no backbone then the girl, who might have thought it was refreshing at first, ends up getting bored with it and moves on. As my friend Patrick once said, "I don't want to date a guy who's cries all the time and shares their feeling with me every chance they get. If I was going to do that, then I would just date women."
All in all, he wasn't a bad guy, just took a long time for him to get over the years of emotional abuse that the other kids had put him through.
I also dated a girl who grew up with two moms. Now she was ok, but her brother... not so much. He was just like the last kid I described. He was angry, and again, it was hard for him to find a social identity that would allow him to fit in. I also think it's important that every child should have a positive male role model in their life, especially young boys. Being a teenager is tough enough on both sexes and it's hard to take advice about the body changes that are happening in your life from the opposite sex. I mean what mom really wants to explain, and what boy wants to hear it, that the body changes are normal and the random boners that they're getting is normal and will go away. Now I can't say that this is an issue that every child has coming from a same-sex home. In these two instances the parent's family had disowned them and they had to do everything by themselves.

Children are amazing in that they can adapt to almost every situation. As long as the home they grow up in is stable and they are loved it doesn't really matter if they have same-sex parents. It's just when they get older and the outside pressures make it harder on them. Now the world has changed a lot in the last decade. More people are understanding about the whole issue, and less likely to make fun of them for it, or at least it'll be easier to find people who do understand or don't care. There are countless children who grew up in a traditional family who were abused and had promiscuous parents that were terrible role models. I don't think that argument really holds a lot of salt these days. I think as the world is starting to become more understanding and exposed to it, Neil Patrick Harris is a good example, this will be less of an issue.

The video below is a great clip about the whole issue.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSQQK2Vuf9Q

1) After watching the video did you feel like affirmed or changed your belief on what a family really is?
2) Does any of this even matter to any of you?