I THINK CANADA IS WAY TO CLOSE TO CALLIE FOR IT'S OWN GOOD...THIS IS SAN FRANCISCO CRAPOLO....
Posted on 05/26/2011 2:07:25 PM PDT by NYer
A Toronto couple raising their 4-month-old without identifying the child as a boy or a girl have created a media firestorm in Canada, where some have likened the scenario to a "bizarre lab experiment" that seeks to undo thousands of years of social evolution.
Kathy Witterick, 38, and David Stocker, 39, are raising their third child, Storm, to be free of societal norms regarding gender. Is Storm male or female? The parents won't say, so no one knows except Storm's older brothers, Jazz and Kio, as well as a close family friend and two midwives who helped deliver the baby, according to the Toronto Star.
Since publishing a story about the couple on Saturday, the newspaper has received a "rush of responses" from readers, including some who believe the Toronto couple is acting "very selfish" and "very inconsiderate" in their attempt to undo evolution. Others, meanwhile, told the newspaper that "breaking social norms" is not synonymous with bad parenting.
Attempts to reach Witterick and Stocker -- who reportedly works as a teacher at City View Alternative, a small middle school in Toronto -- were unsuccessful on Tuesday. In a follow-up Toronto Star story on Monday, the couple told the newspaper that they have decided not to conduct any additional interviews.
"We don't want them to feel like exotic bugs, and when consulted, they said no thanks to more media attention," Witterick wrote the newspaper in an email.
Clinton Anderson, director of the American Psychological Association's Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Concerns Office, told FoxNews.com that while the organization supports gender nondiscrimination, there is no research available regarding potential harms or benefits to raising a so-called genderless child.
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Is one a girl?
There is the well known case in Canada in which (twin?) boys were neutered and raised as girls at the direction of a nut case psychiatrist who believed gender is completely determined by environment. There may have been a more recent single case, IIRC, the boy eventually threatened to kill the doctor involved, and eventually committed suicide.
Not sure why people are saying this is all new, or that it isn’t already known denying a child’s gender has disastrous effects.
I wouldn’t want to be one of Witterick’s students.
The article didn’t say anything about their political leanings,
how do you know they’re liberals?
(/SARC)
Actually, if the boy had killed the doc, it would have been entirely justified.
I am of the opinion that families should be free to raise their children in what way the please, but there are decision which not only endanger the lives of the children, but society in general.
These cases are a perfect example. The parents are negligent in their responsibilities, if not criminal in their conduct.
This is political. Throughout our country, Christian homeschooling parents are being arrest simply for choosing to educate their children at home, and these people are being displayed as if we should all embrace their “Progressive” ideas.
This is abhorrent.
H. G. Wells’ ‘Time Machine’, in the future, the people were cowardly eunich-types. This is what libs want.
Keep the child away from bell towers when he or she is 18. This should be deemed child abuse.
If they are raising a genderless child it is obvious that they one day intend for him to play defense for the Toronto Maple Leafs...
OUCH!
Maybe it’ll have the opposite effect if lil’ Stormy is a boy:
And he said “Son this world is rough
and if a man's gonna make it he's got to be tough
and I know I wouldn't be there to help you along
so I give you that name and I said goodbye
I knew you'd have to get tough or die
and it's that name that helped to make you strong”
That’s what the public schools have been teaching the kids for the last 30 years.
“In a thousand years there won't be any more men or women. We'll all be wankers”
~Trainspotting
These nutcase weirdos are making their kids into nutcase weirdos.
Ya got that right!
My newest Godson and his brother came in with my niece for my daughter’s Confirmation. Being the sponsor, my niece had to sit with my daughter in the main while we watched her boys.
Three of us, my hubby, my 11-year-old and myself watched these boys. Holy Moly! They were work! They are 2 and 4.
With whack job parents like this, my guess is the kid is a boy. They’ve got two boys. Probably wanted a girl. Besides, in this brave new society, there is nothing wrong with girls and everything wrong with boys; it’s so easy to denigrate males. This is just a very odd way of both showing how hip the couple is and denigrating males. (The psyc bills for the kid later on should only amount to 20 or 30K.)
Tell me about it. We keep our grandsons 2 days a week... ages 3 and almost 5. My wife grew up an only child and has wondered "Is it normal for brothers to fight like that"? Since I had 3 siblings, I can only answer "Yes".
“Throughout our country, Christian homeschooling parents are being arrest simply for choosing to educate their children at home”
Where?
I’m constantly amazed at how brothers can beat the crap out of each other and survive.
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