[Mrs. Don-o]

They are preemptively, deliberately and permanently denying their child's right to a mother.

This is the 2nd worst thing you can do to a child, second only to denying him his right to live at all.

Obviously this arrangement would be based on the adult's preferences, not the child's rights and needs.

[Morpheus2009]

IDK, but sometimes my instinct as a man is more disturbed at a child without a mother than a child without a father, probably because my mother played a prominent role in my lifetime.