nfitz
Superstar
Your mother's personal failings have nothing to do with whether same sex parents are better or not. Given the article in the Globe on Monday that reported on a study that kids raised by lesbian parents have fewer behavioural problems and rate higher in social and academic competence than their peers, it's pretty clear that the issue has nothing to do with sexual preference.If you took my views of actually understanding the validity of having both genders being represented in the rearing of children as attacks on same sex couples and single familes, then that's your your problem.
I come from a single family background. My mother tried raising both my brother and myself without my father but she tried to have male role models around and later told us both that we needed men in our lives particularily a father figure. She flat out told us that as a woman, she didn't know how to shape boys into men. She understood the importance of the other gender with raising children.
And she was right. There are no clear cut studies that have studied the long term consequences of same sex rearing of children because it's such a new construct in our society.
Your mother's issue wasn't that she was a female; it was that she was a single parent.
To take this and make such despicable and horrible bigoted comments is unwarranted.