Homosexual Superdads
July 29, 2013
ADAM writes:
Yesterday, The Arizona Republic published an exuberant follow-up article about a pair of homosexual superdads: Gay dads adopt 2 more children for total of 14.
The Republic previously promoted this nontraditional blended “family” of foster children in 2011 and 2012. The story was picked up nationally by ABC News (which cast the group as a real-life Brady Bunch), Esquire (which named the “dads” among their 2012 Fathers of the Year), and the Huffington Post.
A publication called Gay Parent Magazine also featured them. Rather than calling this a “family,” I think it is more like a privately run children’s home or orphanage. It seems irresponsible for the state to have put so many children in the care of two individuals. I don’t see how it is possible for two men to care for so many children at the same time. Given that all the children come from broken families and likely suffered significant neglect and abuse in their past, these children need more parental attention than a typical child, not less — and it seems likely that with the attention of the two “dads” split 14 ways that each child can only receive small morsels of supervision and care, even if the two “dads” are model caregivers.
I know a couple who were unable to have children of their own and took in several foster children. At a gathering of extended family when the children were playing while all the aunts and uncles were talking, the foster kids acted out sexually (exposing themselves and touching each other inappropriately), as was discovered after the fact through talking to the other children. Subsequently, in order to protect the innocence of the other children (the biological children of the aunts and uncles), the aunts, uncles, and grandparents decided that the foster children would not be allowed to come over to the grandparents’ house at the same time as the other grandchildren. I have read that this kind of acting-out is unfortunately all too common among foster children, many of whom have already suffered terrible neglect and abuse prior to coming to the foster family.
In light of this, I see the “family” of two “dads” and 14 children as an extremely disordered and reckless situation. Divorced parents who remarry have a tough enough time creating a “blended family” of two groups of children who are not biological siblings. Imagine how much this difficulty is compounded by the two adults not being biologically related to the children, and the children not being biologically related to each other (although in the articles I read that several of the children are biological siblings, I don’t have the time to try to figure out how many different groups of real siblings there are among the troupe of 14 — once the traditional arrangement of mother, father, and children is thrown out the window, understanding and describing the nontraditional family relationships that arise becomes a very confusing task). I somehow doubt that the day-to-day reality in this household matches the image that the media is promoting of the gay superdads.
I don’t see how these 14 children will be able to develop normal attitudes about families, sex roles, mothers, and fathers from growing up in such a confusing, chaotic situation. First, they were deprived of their birth family by their reckless, irresponsible, and dysfunctional biological parents. Second, they were deprived of any chance of learning about traditional family roles by the state, whose revolutionary social workers and judges seem determined, with the willing collusion of the press, to promote this “modern family” as an example to live by.
Laura writes:
It seems irresponsible for the state to have put so many children in the care of two individuals.
I am sure it is very deliberate. And I would say it’s more than irresponsible. It’s a form of child abuse.
It doesn’t matter whether these men are taking care of these children well or are the nicest people on earth. They are introducing them all to sexual perversion. And their example paves the way for those not-so-nice men who want to set up pedophile rings. It would be better for these children to be in orphanages.
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Douglas writes:
My wife and I attended a course for the Florida Families First Network when we were considering adopting kids out of the foster system once our daughter left home. One of the things they stressed most during the whole course was the dysfunction these children had experienced, sexual in many cases, and the strength required to help those children.
One case made my wife and I decide to abandon the state initiatives. An instructor told us they had pushed for a child, who had biological family willing to take the child, to be placed with two homosexuals. I asked them why they would do this. The instructor said it was because the biological family lived across the country and the gays had kept the child and knew her better. They did not even consider long term implications of this arrangement. It disgusted us both.
Florida now allows homosexuals to adopt children from foster care where as in the past they could only act as foster parents. It is a dangerous situation in my humble opinion.
Laura writes:
Incredible.
Alex writes:
Adam writes:
I don’t see how these 14 children will be able to develop normal attitudes about families, sex roles, mothers, and fathers from growing up in such a confusing, chaotic situation.
That is precisely the idea behind homosexual adoption. Fourteen more troops for the revolution.
Paul writes:
Blending foster children (unless siblings) is reckless when they are males and especially male and female, which should be forbidden by law.
