At 08:39 AM 2/28/2004 -0700 Michael Harney wrote:
>"that child's reasonable expectations for a mother and a father"
>
>How many children have you questioned regarding this, particularly, how many
>orphans or other children put up for adoption or are in foster care? I
>think it's far more important to provide a stable family than to be picky
>about the sex of the adoptive parents, but maybe that's just me...
Given that every child is produced by a mother and a father, that is surely
a reasonable expectation of that child.
Are stable homosexual parents better than abusive parents? Of course.
But ceteris paribis, every child can reasonable expect to have a mother and
a father, and we should do our best to meet that expectation.
JDG
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