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Growing Up With Two Moms: The Untold Children’s View
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| August 6th, 2012
| Robert Oscar Lopez
Posted on 03/26/2013 8:51:39 AM PDT by Maelstorm
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A different perspective from a guy raised in a Lesbian household.
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posted on
03/26/2013 8:51:40 AM PDT
by
Maelstorm
To: Maelstorm
No, this can’t be true. From what we’re told children of queer “parents” are just as normal as can be. He must be “confused”...
/huge globs of sarcasm
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posted on
03/26/2013 8:57:37 AM PDT
by
rockrr
(Everything is different now...)
To: Maelstorm
From the article:
“I thank Mark Regnerus. Far from being bullshit, his work is affirming to me, because it acknowledges what the gay activist movement has sought laboriously to erase, or at least ignore. Whether homosexuality is chosen or inbred, whether gay marriage gets legalized or not, being strange is hard; it takes a mental toll, makes it harder to find friends, interferes with professional growth, and sometimes leads one down a sodden path to self-medication in the form of alcoholism, drugs, gambling, antisocial behavior, and irresponsible sex.”
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posted on
03/26/2013 9:05:47 AM PDT
by
Rennes Templar
(Business owners work harder! You have to support millions.)
To: Maelstorm
Interesting.
Like gay mortality data, one rarely sees clear, unbiased stories and data about gay households.
My best evidence is my own observations - of the danger and damage of the “gay lifestyle” and my own observations of children I know “parented” by gay men and women. If you imagine that 2 lesbians raising kids is screwed up, you should see the result of 2 gay men raising kids....
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posted on
03/26/2013 9:07:52 AM PDT
by
PGR88
To: Maelstorm
After reading this article, I have no trouble believing that if this gentleman were raised in a home with a father and mother who loved each other, had a normal family life, had decent dates in high school, and grew up a typical boy, he would not be at all confused about his current sexuality, and would be a happily married man with a wife and children.
Just my humble opinion based on what I read.
He wasn’t “born that way.”
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posted on
03/26/2013 9:09:28 AM PDT
by
left that other site
(Worry is the darkroom that developes negatives.)
To: Maelstorm
Interesting article, thanks.
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posted on
03/26/2013 9:10:49 AM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Maelstorm
Truly, actions have consequences.
The author's mother, having *chosen* to live with a "partner", turned the author into an embittered, broken man.
In reading between the lines, it sounds like if she had raised the author as a single parent, the author would have had many of the same issues. But, it's hard to tell, and anyone can "what if" themselves to death.
Bottom line, as a parent, your #1 responsibility is to your child, not to yourself.
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posted on
03/26/2013 9:14:13 AM PDT
by
wbill
To: rockrr
A friend of mine has a father who is transgendered.
He used to confide to me how he would get up in the morning and wonder how his father “felt” that day and would he be a man or a woman.
This troubled him deeply. He always said his father was crazy but he loved him anyway. Now that he is grown, he still has a relationship with his dad. He said when his two children were young that they would never stay unsupervised with his parents until they were old enough to know what was going on. I guess his mom didn't care or he never told me how she felt.
So sad to have grandparents you may trust , but not really trust.
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posted on
03/26/2013 9:14:50 AM PDT
by
lucky american
(The Democrats will follow the big "D"even if it means going over a cliff.)
To: Maelstorm
I don’t know if I could have handled two Jewish mothers.
Probably would have ended up goth or something...
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posted on
03/26/2013 9:18:49 AM PDT
by
varyouga
To: Maelstorm
Growing Up With Two Moms: The Untold Childrens View When your home life is so drastically different from everyone around you, in a fundamental way striking at basic physical relations, you grow up weird. I have no mental health disorders or biological conditions. I just grew up in a house so unusual that I was destined to exist as a social outcast.
wait, should we believe him, who lived it, or 'Experts' who do not.
My dad said that an Expert is a 'has been (Ex) drip (pert)' or an expert is someone miles away who tell you what you want to hear!
I hope he recovered!
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posted on
03/26/2013 9:33:32 AM PDT
by
ExCTCitizen
(More Republicans stayed home then the margin of victory of O's Win...)
To: Maelstorm
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posted on
03/26/2013 9:40:28 AM PDT
by
WalterSkinner
( In Memory of My Father--WWII Vet and Patriot 1926-2007)
To: Maelstorm
The raging fang-toothed man-hating feminazis are going to pounce on this.
To: Maelstorm
One of our friends of the family was a former gay stripper who is now a heterosexual and married.
Gays SCORN people like that.
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posted on
03/26/2013 9:50:24 AM PDT
by
struggle
(http://killthegovernment.wordpress.com/)
To: left that other site
I agree but its not about the kids its about the gay. See one of the biggest contradictions in the LGBT is the B.
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posted on
03/26/2013 9:50:44 AM PDT
by
Maelstorm
(This country wasn't founded with the battle cry "Give me liberty or give me a govt check!")
To: Maelstorm
Wow, great point. Isn’t it only intellectually honest that the “L” and “G” members of this community be supporting their “B” members and advocate in favor of being married to both a man and a woman at the same time?
To: Maelstorm
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posted on
03/26/2013 10:33:36 AM PDT
by
left that other site
(Worry is the darkroom that developes negatives.)
To: Maelstorm
I remember watching Patrick Macnee, the actor from the Avengers, on Larry King Live several years ago. He was raised by a lesbian mother and her “partner”, which he mentioned to Larry King. King then said, “And you turned out OK.” Macnee corrected him and replied, “No, I didn’t.” He went on to explain how he became an alcoholic, and had trouble with relationships with women. I think he had been married 3 times at that time. He blamed these things on his confusion about being raised with 2 “mommies”.
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posted on
03/26/2013 11:01:32 AM PDT
by
murron
(Proud Mom of a Marine Vet)
To: rockrr
My kids’ high school had an ED (Emotionally Disabled?) program for kids who had serious social issues that impacted their learning.
Among it students were the children raised in single sex parental households. Not one of those kids was ‘normal.’ Not one. I always had special feelings for those kids because there was not a thing they could do to alter their homes’ lifestyles.
It would be interesting to see where they are now, what they’ve done with their lives, and what lifestyle(s) they’ve chosen to follow for themselves as adults.
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posted on
03/26/2013 11:13:05 AM PDT
by
EDINVA
To: Maelstorm
Did this man ever think of how his father must have lived?
His father who lived with a woman who had sex with him as an act she carried on because she had to cover her trail,and not because she enjoyed it.His mother who took advantage of his father and his paycheck, but was never really in love with him.She slept with him and lived with him in a farce of love.She used him.
Does he ever wonder if his mother ever felt punished by having a male child? Did she use him, like she used his father, and raised him because she had to and not love?
How can a woman sleep with a man, profess love for him and go out and perform cunnilingus on the woman she really wants to be with.If she were honest she would have left his father and moved out before he was even conceived.
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posted on
03/26/2013 11:19:22 AM PDT
by
Venturer
To: Maelstorm; stephenjohnbanker; ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas; Gilbo_3; Impy; NFHale; BillyBoy; ...
RE:
My peers learned all the unwritten rules of decorum and body language in their homes; they understood what was appropriate to say in certain settings and what wasnt; they learned both traditionally masculine and traditionally feminine social mechanisms.
Even if my peers parents were divorced, and many of them were, they still grew up seeing male and female social models. They learned, typically, how to be bold and unflinching from male figures and how to write thank-you cards and be sensitive from female figures. These are stereotypes, of course, but stereotypes come in handy when you inevitably leave the safety of your lesbian moms trailer and have to work and survive in a world where everybody thinks in stereotypical terms, even gays.
I had no male figure at all to follow, and my mother and her partner were both unlike traditional fathers or traditional mothers. As a result, I had very few recognizable social cues to offer potential male or female friends, since I was neither confident nor sensitive to others. Thus I befriended people rarely and alienated others easily. Gay people who grew up in straight parents households may have struggled with their sexual orientation; but when it came to the vast social universe of adaptations not dealing with sexualityhow to act, how to speak, how to behavethey had the advantage of learning at home. Many gays dont realize what a blessing it was to be reared in a traditional home.
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It was not until I was twenty-eight that I suddenly found myself in a relationship with a woman, through coincidences that shocked everyone who knew me and surprised even myself. I call myself bisexual because it would take several novels to explain how I ended up straight after almost thirty years as a gay man. I dont feel like dealing with gay activists skewering me the way they go on search-and-destroy missions against ex-gays, closet cases, or "homocons."
This man's story will be buried for sure. A boy raised by two lesbo wimmin, that is a design for disaster. If one 'single' mom doesnt work, give him two.
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posted on
03/26/2013 11:23:34 AM PDT
by
sickoflibs
(To GOP : Any path to US citizenship IS putting them ahead in line. Stop lying about your position.)
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