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To: tutstar

I would be curious to see how it breaks down along family types. Reason would say the experience of a child with two mommies would be significantly different from the one with two daddies. Lesbians and gay males have almost polar opposite lifestyles and values so its an important distinction when sifting the data.

I've always tried to live by the outlook that its not my place to judge my neighbors choices but now that I'm a parent myself its become difficult to maintain such a dispassionate stance. Spending time out in the playgrounds and around the neighborhood with the local pack of kids has made one crisis very clear to me, the father shortage. Not only are they drawn to me but they exhibit enough issues to keep a team of shrinks busy for decades. From low self esteem to lack of respect and everything in between, I know that they are innocents trapped in a situation they didnt create. I do my best to help them where I can, I teach them to ride bikes, set up team games, break up scuffles and so on. Its amazing how readily these kids respond to a father figure, I get better behavior out of them than their own mothers do. It just breaks my heart to see them growing up like that and it makes me furious at their absent fathers. Sorry to rant off the topic a bit but I think missing fathers are a far bigger crisis for our culture and I wish there was a similar pushback against the divorce culture.


31 posted on 06/10/2005 6:22:05 AM PDT by planetpatrol
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To: planetpatrol
Sorry to rant off the topic a bit but I think missing fathers are a far bigger crisis for our culture and I wish there was a similar pushback against the divorce culture.

You're actually hitting the nail on the head. The root cause of many cultural issues today are absent fathers. In regards to homosexuality, read:

How Might Homosexuality Develop? Putting the Pieces Together
A Parent's Guide to Preventing Homosexuality
In 2004, People Can Change surveyed the members of its online support groups to determine what they perceived to have been the most significant causes of their developing homosexual feelings in their own lives. Checkout the survey here:
Perceptions Amoung Men With Unwanted Same-Sex Attractions (SSA) of the Factors Contributing to the Development of Their Homosexuals Feelings
The more we read about homosexuality, the more we see a great responsibility rests with fathers.
32 posted on 06/10/2005 7:37:43 AM PDT by scripter (Tens of thousands have left the homosexual lifestyle)
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