Warwick
Don't you love the use of statistics without all the other factors being known. Or what are the statistics of these social problems from children who came from motherless homes. How important is income or education on these statistics.

Most children don't come from fatherless homes there is usually a father somewhere in a shared custody arrangement. If the father has run off this is not the fault of a single mother. It is very hard to raise a child on your own and what we should be asking is how can we better support men or women who are raising children without the support of a partner?

It is not the fact that the child is from a fatherless home but from a poor home in many cases. It would be interesting to see the statistics of drug use or incarceration rates from middle and upper class single parent homes.

The lack of either parent is very difficult particularly in low income families.

Suxanonline,

Thanks,

However, how can someone be a homosexual father?

Also, what do you think about hm2's comment, about mothers becoming optional as well as fathers.

I can remember reading about attempts to produce an ovum cell artificially outside of an ovary.

<< Happy Father's Day to all of the fathers out there. May this day be very happy and memorable for you. >>

Thanks Cornflower.

I actually had an early 'Fathers Day' with my younger kids last weekend in Brisbane, which was lovely. Phone calls and Facebook messages today, and a Fathers Day barbecue put on by the local fishing club at the pub - I'm the treasurer. Food, drink, kids, dads, mums, grandparents, mates and the odd blow-in. Lovely day, except for the weather.

vanna, you really need to gain access to a university library. The answers to your questions are there, if you really want to know.

Vanka, there are many homosexual fathers out there.
They have sperm, just the same as other men.

Some homosexual men deny their true feelings and marry, and/or have children with women, before deciding to leave and live their life as they were born to.

Are you suggesting that once they leave the mother of their children, that they should no longer be a father to their children?
Wouldn't that be cruel to the kids?
Should we say the same to heterosexual fathers who leave the wife?

There are also many gay men who father children after being asked to do so by gay women or other women. Apparently most of them make wonderful, loving fathers.

Who are you to say who should or shouldn't be fathers?

CJ Morgan <"vanna, you really need to gain access to a university library. The answers to your questions are there, if you really want to know."

Lol CJ, you are naughty!
But please, don't encourage Vanna with the old university lecturer questions again!

Happy Fathers Day to you.

Cheers,
Suze.

C J Morgan,

You wanted the author to say something good about homosexual fathers's, but previously (on another forum) you couldn't find an academic from an Australian university who has published an article that said something good about the male gender.

Now you say that university libraries do have books that say something good about fathers (but you don't give the author names)

Basically, I don't believe you.

Suzanonline,
So it all comes down to sperm.

Sorry to upset your simplistic view of the world, but sperm may become redundant in the future, as well as ova.

Given this scenario, what would then make a mother or a father, or would they also be redundant in the brave new world.