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Children Hunger For Their Biological Parents

1) The document discusses how children desire their biological parents and how same-sex couples using IVF or surrogacy deliberately separate children from their mother or father. 2) It also argues that children need both mothers and fathers, as fathers influence behavior in boys and sexual activity in girls, while mothers provide emotional security. 3) Evidence on parenting by same-sex couples is said to be inadequate and preliminary, with studies having serious methodological flaws.

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Children Hunger For Their Biological Parents

1) The document discusses how children desire their biological parents and how same-sex couples using IVF or surrogacy deliberately separate children from their mother or father. 2) It also argues that children need both mothers and fathers, as fathers influence behavior in boys and sexual activity in girls, while mothers provide emotional security. 3) Evidence on parenting by same-sex couples is said to be inadequate and preliminary, with studies having serious methodological flaws.

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Children hunger for their biological parents.

Homosexual couples using in vitro fertilization (IVF) or


surrogate mothers deliberately create a class of children who will live apart from their mother or
father. Yale Child Study Center psychiatrist Kyle Pruett reports that children of IVF often ask their
single or lesbian mothers about their fathers, asking their mothers questions like the
following:"Mommy, what did you do with my daddy?" "Can I write him a letter?" "Has he ever seen
me?" "Didn't you like him? Didn't he like me?" Elizabeth Marquardt reports that children of divorce
often report similar feelings about their non-custodial parent, usually the father. Kyle Pruett,
Fatherneed (Broadway Books, 2001) 204. Elizabeth Marquardt, The Moral and Spiritual Lives of
Children of Divorce. Forthcoming. 2. Children need fathers. If same-sex civil marriage becomes
common, most same-sex couples with children would be lesbian couples. This would mean that we
would have yet more children being raised apart from fathers. Among other things, we know that
fathers excel in reducing antisocial behavior and delinquency in boys and sexual activity in girls.
What is fascinating is that fathers exercise a unique social and biological influence on their children.
For instance, a recent study of father absence on girls found that girls who grew up apart from their
biological father were much more likely to experience early puberty and a teen pregnancy than girls
who spent their entire childhood in an intact family. This study, along with David Popenoe's work,
suggests that a father's pheromones influence the biological development of his daughter, that a
strong marriage provides a model for girls of what to look for in a man, and gives them the
confidence to resist the sexual entreaties of their boyfriends. * Ellis, Bruce J., et al., "Does Father
Absence Place Daughters at Special Risk for Early Sexual Activity and Teenage Pregnancy?" Child
Development, 74:801-821. * David Popenoe, Life Without Father (Boston: Harvard University Press,
1999). 3. Children need mothers. Although homosexual men are less likely to have children than
lesbians, homosexual men are and will be raising children. There will be even more if homosexual
civil marriage is legalized. These households deny children a mother. Among other things, mothers
excel in providing children with emotional security and in reading the physical and emotional cues of
infants. Obviously, they also give their daughters unique counsel as they confront the physical,
emotional, and social challenges associated with puberty and adolescence. Stanford psychologist
Eleanor MacCoby summarizes much of this literature in her book, The Two Sexes. See also Steven
Rhoads' book, Taking Sex Differences Seriously. Eleanor MacCoby, The Two Sexes: Growing Up
Apart, Coming Together (Boston: Harvard, 1998). Steven Rhoads, Taking Sex Differences Seriously
(Encounter Books, 2004). 4. Evidence on parenting by same-sex couples is inadequate. A number of
leading professional associations have asserted that there are "no differences" between children
raised by homosexuals and those raised by heterosexuals. But the research in this area is quite
preliminary; most of the studies are done by advocates and most suffer from serious methodological
problems. Sociologist Steven Nock of the University of Virginia, who is agnostic on the issue of
same-sex civil marriage, offered this review of the literature on gay parenting as an expert witness for
a Canadian court considering legalization of same-sex civil marriage: Through this analysis I draw
my conclusions that 1) all of the articles I reviewed contained at least one fatal flaw of design or
execution; and 2) not a single one of those studies was conducted according to general accepted
standards of scientific research. This is not exactly the kind of social scientific evidence you would
want to launch a major family experiment. Steven Nock, affidavit to the Ontario Superior Court of
Justice regarding Hedy Halpern et al. University of Virginia Sociology Department (2001). 5.
Evidence suggests children raised by homosexuals are more likely to experience gender and sexual
disorders. Although the evidence on child outcomes is sketchy, it does suggest that children raised by
lesbians or homosexual men are more likely to experience gender and sexual disorders. Judith
Stacey-- a sociologist and an advocate for same-sex civil marriage--reviewed the literature on child
outcomes and found the following: "lesbian parenting may free daughters and sons from a broad but
uneven range of traditional gender prescriptions." Her conclusion here is based on studies that show
that sons of lesbians are less masculine and that daughters of lesbians are more masculine. She also
found that a "significantly greater proportion of young adult children raised by lesbian mothers than
those raised by heterosexual mothers ... reported having a homoerotic relationship."

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