Many believe gay & lesbian's cannot be sufficient parents for a number of reasons. I do understand where many people can think not having a mother or a father in their life can affect their upbringing. I, personally, don't understand why somebody cannot have two mothers or two fathers. Many time's in a heterosexual upbringing children are raised by either one mother or one father, and often have a close friend of the parents or an aunt/uncle helping to raise them. So , for example, if a mother is widowed and her close friend ( who is a woman) becomes some sort of second mother figure to this child because it is hard for a single parent, is this wrong?
This mother cannot help that her husband has passed away , and needs help in some ways raising her child so she reaches out to a friend , does the friend have to be male? Likewise if this would happen to a man. And trust me there are TV shoes and movies that point this out. There should be no reason gay's or lesbian's should not be able to have children, they aren't any different then somebody who is heterosexual ( except for their sexual preferences). Many children turn out gay or lesbian with heterosexual parents. Which brings me to my last question, Do you think having gay or lesbian parents influence affect a child' sexual preference?
I think that a parent's sexual orientation plays a huge role in the developement of a child's views. Growing up as a kid I always wanted to be just like my Dad and I believe that played a role in influincing my heterosexaul orientation.
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