Well, this is news to me. According to Stephen Scott, “director of research at the National Academy for Parenting Practitioners,” lesbians are better at this parenting thing than a mom and a dad:
His controversial position draws backing from research that suggests children with two female parents are more aspirational than those with opposite-sex parents. Some studies also also shows children with lesbian parents are no more or less likely to have tendencies towards homosexuality.
Research at Birkbeck College, part of London University, and Clark University in Massachusetts suggests that same-sex couples make good parents because children cannot be conceived accidentally – parents must make an active decision to adopt or find a sperm donor.
On the surface, this could be a convincing position. These are people who have to make a conscience choice to have a child. They really put a lot of thought into it.
But, this assumes that a majority of male/female couples don’t plan to get pregnant. And then when they do, they are poor parents.
It also assumes that parents who put thought into children make better parents.
Have you ever met a couple who, regardless of the amount of thought involved would just make terrible parents?
Planning for a baby doesn’t make you a good parent. Loving the baby does.
The question is, does a child fare better with heterosexual parents than it does with homosexual parents, or does it matter?
What do you think?
