Posted on 08/04/2005 5:37:57 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
CHILDCARE staff are using taxpayer-funded booklets to teach toddlers about gay families.
A booklet called We're Here, used in more than 2000 children's centres, encourages staff to use stories, books, posters, games and dolls to actively challenge homophobia. Suggestions include:
CHANGING Father's Day to "A Day for Someone Special".
USING the terms Partner A and Partner B on forms instead of Mum and Dad.
TELLING children that "some families don't have dads".
In one suggested role playing scenario, children are introduced to Toby, a doll which has "two mums, June and Alice".
The booklet has been slammed by the Australian Family Association and the State Opposition as an assault on parents' rights.
The We're Here booklet was funded by the City of Darebin through a community grants scheme. It is distributed by FKA Children's Services, which is funded by the State and Federal Governments.
More than 2000 copies of the booklet have been distributed around Victoria in the past year.
Also widely used is a collection of 10 laminated family posters, one of which features two lesbian parents.
Australian Family Association president Bill Muehlenberg said the material was taxpayer funded propaganda designed to brainwash children.
"The idea that same sex couples are on par with a mum and dad family is a real assault on children," he said.
Opposition education spokesman Victor Perton said it was the role of parents rather than childcare workers to raise such issues.
"It's madness for childcare workers to actually be promoting these models given that most parents would be unaware they are in circulation," he said.
FKA Children's Services assistant director Melinda Chapman confirmed the booklet was used to promote awareness of homosexual issues.
"There are many staff members who feel it is not appropriate to ignore the fact that many types of families exist," she said.
Judy Radich, president of the Australian Early Childhood Association, said many childcare workers talked to children about gay families.
"We've all got a responsibility to expose children to the diversity of the world we live in," she said.
But she said it was important for parents to be aware of what was being discussed.
University of Western Sydney academic Kerry Robinson has called for young children to actively confront gay issues.
Writing in the Australian Journal of Early Childhood, she suggests Barbie dolls and fairy tales should be changed to include gay characters.
Our children's minds need to be protected from these sickos.
Teaching this crap to TODDLERS?? Those poor, poor children!
What a sad sick and sorry world this has become...
"There are many staff members who feel it is not appropriate to ignore the fact that many types of families exist," she said.
Well, Melinda, maybe you need a higher class of staff member?
A small percentage of the population is forcing this on us. Who is ready to see affirmative action in gay adoptions? Do you think it can't happen?
Or how about "Sperm Donor Day"? /sarcasm
Makes me sick.
An addition to the last post. It will be against the law for a mother who gives up her child for adoption to require that the child be adopted by a normal couple.
Not "maybe"...
Within a year or two in California, New York, New Jersey, Hawaii, and a few other Blue states . . . imposed by the courts on the rest of us soon thereafter.
Toddlers?????
ping.
Early Childhood Conference... 16-18 June 2005
Developing responsive relationships; the Koorie and multicultural perspective, Melinda Chapman
Respecting children’s cultural and linguistic rights, Melinda Chapman FKA
Children’s rights to be Included
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Friday June 17th, 9.00 – 12.00
Advocating for children’s rights: the challenge for early childhood educators
Melinda Chapman; Assistant Director, FKA Children’s Services Inc
Melinda has extensive experience and knowledge in working with children who have lived in situations of war this includes 8 years working with refugee families as a practitioner in a Long Day Care Centre in Melbourne. She has coordinated the Adult Migrant English Program Child Care Consultancy Service in the provision of specialist support for refugee families. She also coordinated the Play Centre for the Puckapunyal Safe Haven for the Kosovar and East Timorese families. She is a founding member of Real Rights For Refugee Children and is passionate about children’s rights.
They say that this is about consenting adults but what child consents to be adopted into a same-sex household?
Religion is the parents' business.
I WILL ping this out later!!
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