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Originally Posted by Barefoot
In a perfect world, that would be true. However one-third of American children today, 16 million, are being raised in single-parent homes. And a lot of those families are living in poverty.
I know many same-sex partners who are quietly and successfully raising children in a very stable and secure environment.
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And my bet is that 15.8 million of those children
at least have two parents that are a male and a female who, flawed as they might be, are still prone to teach their kids--by either good or bad example--that it takes a man and a woman to conceive a child, NOT a woman and a physician administering the contents of a test tube.
One of the long-term effects we're concerned about is
the teaching to children that a father is not needed, by way of teaching that artificial insemination is just as good as a
known, loving, married/divorced, rich/poor, live-in/out
father.
This teaching and role modeling of no need for a
known, identifiable, present father is
especially worrisome in light of the above-quoted poverty known to be closely linked with fatherlessness!