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Government creating a fatherless society : Comments

By Warwick Marsh, published 15/3/2012

Taxpayer funding for those who want to send the laws of nature into free fall.

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Warwick, it is actually quite safe to jump off a very tall building. It just needs a little planning.

Parents who find themselves without an opposite-sex partner are not dooming either themselves or their children to a squishy end. But they do have to ensure the family has the parachute of regular engagement with adult role models - of both genders - to support the single parent or same-sex parents with nurturing.

The good news is that the most authoritative research shows that children of same-sex parents actually do as well as kids with opposite-sex parents on some scores of developmental outcomes, and significantly better on others.

This may be a result of same-sex parents being aware they are in a minority, are pioneers, and hence are under scrutiny. So maybe when same-sex parents are accepted as normal and the pressure is off, test results will even out.

But for now, you cannot argue that children in unorthodox families will inevitably be disadvantaged. The evidence is the opposite.

For example, from the American Academy of Pediatrics. There are others. Just google same-sex parenting, then weed out those studies with a barrow to push, either pro-LGBT or anti.

And for quick snapshot, here is an impressive 3-minute eye-opener:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSQQK2Vuf9Q

So let's celebrate gravity rather than fearing or loathing it. That descent from the skyscraper can be not only perfectly safe, but quite exhilarating as well.
Posted by Alan Austin, Thursday, 15 March 2012 1:25:20 PM
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With our Parliament stacked with fornicators, idolators, feminist, lesbians, homosexuals, adulterers you are very unlikely to get a commonsense approach. We are reaping decades of immoral humanist calling the shots. What Warwick speaks is 100 per cent correct but unfortunately exposing the degradation of others lifestyles is only allowable if you are mocking a fundie Christian. Why do you think the humanist hate Abbott so much? Most of our pollies and educators are far more comfortable with darkness than light. That is why you lost your job Warwick. Keep up the good fight but comfort yourself that the Just Judge will have His way. In the end children are the ones sacrificed again at the altar of selfishness.
Posted by runner, Thursday, 15 March 2012 1:32:57 PM
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'Personally, I’d rather just call a plumber and save on lemonade.'

Why doesn't that surprise me.

So joyless.

BTW: Many a porn film starts with a plumber...
Posted by Houellebecq, Thursday, 15 March 2012 1:47:36 PM
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There is so much wrong with this article that it is hard to know where to start. But my real problem is that this is such an emotive, badly written,unsubstantiated piece of garble from someone who seems in sore need of some counselling for his anger issues, that I wonder why it was published.
Posted by Jodolena, Thursday, 15 March 2012 3:18:34 PM
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'That descent from the skyscraper can be not only perfectly safe, but quite exhilarating as well.'

So can that slippery slope we're always being warned about.
Posted by Killarney, Thursday, 15 March 2012 4:44:03 PM
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It's incredibly easy to get people to huddle together in families: just keep them poor, ignorant, powerless and servile. Oh, and it helps if you appoint some Morality Police to stone them when they get out of line. But oddly enough, that doesn't seem to make people any more loving and supportive of their children. I wonder why?
Posted by Jon J, Thursday, 15 March 2012 5:01:01 PM
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