[the invisib1e hand]

1. I don't know how you can tell that these people are wealthy. Neither the pictures nor the article suggest that they are rich.

2. This kind of thing goes on in every social class and is not at all restricted to the rich.

I guess it would require too careful a reading of my post to see that I said nothing about being "rich." The term I used was "relatively well-to-do," and I even italicised the word "relatively" for emphasis. In this case, we're talking relative to the "natives" I referred to, and well-to-do relative to them wouldn't mean "rich."

Do you maintain, though, that "every social class" has lesbianism and lesbians raising children as "parents?"

Perhaps it is so in a relatively well off society. I have a hunch, however, that sexual (and other) deviancy tends to increase in proportion to a society's prosperity. Sort of along the lines of the cliche' "idle hands are the devil's workshop."

[Capriole]

I guess it would require too careful a reading of my post to see that I said nothing about being "rich." The term I used was "relatively well-to-do,"

You used the term "wealthy," which is a synonym for "rich."

Do you maintain, though, that "every social class" has lesbianism and lesbians raising children as "parents?"

Yes. There are lesbian couples who are raising children in every financial bracket, rich, middle-income, and poor. But I agree with you that simpler societies tend not to tolerate such things. They don't have the ACLU in places where subsistence is the principal issue in life.