No need for the um der

The point here is not about children in abusive households. It may be yours but not mine.

Yes, we all by accident of birth, get born into different parental circumstances, be it abusive parents, single mother, given up for adoption or whatever.

The point of my thread is that a group of 150 Doctors in Australia has come out in support of the concept that "raising children in a family where the parents are a loving heterosexual couple" is the healthiest environment for a child to grow in.

That 150 Doctors would agree on that is a milestone. For two Doctors to come up with the same diagnoses on the one set of symptoms is rare enough but for 150 Doctors to agree on one thing has to be noteworthy to say the least.

The ABC news service thought it was important enough to publish it nationally.

Maybe you had an unhappy childhood myusernam. Let me tell you about mine.

My parents married less than a year before I was born. Don't know how much less but the marriage was in 1949 and I popped out in August 1950.

My father was schizophrenic and my mother an English Rose upon whom he often beat which did not dim her love for him.

From age 6 to 8, I was sent to boarding school in Toowoomba though home was Brisbane. Bit of a tender age for an only child from the city to be going to a school populated mostly by country boys.

Then my father contracted tuberculosis as a result of his war service in New Guinea, had one of his lungs progressively removed a lobe at a time over the next year and as he was recovering he managed to get hold of a scalpel and slash his wrists and died.

Fortunately for me I had the greatest Mum in the world, which I will argue every day of the week and 100 times on Sunday, who was heterosexual and after the appropriate time of mourning found herself another man, whom I love to this day, but who could never take the place of my real father.

Do I wish my real father had not topped himself and was still around today so that I could talk with him though he would be in his 90s???

You better believe it, especially if my Mum was still around too.

Imagine sitting around on a Sunday arvo with a couple of old men or old women and wondering whose dick or fanny you actually came out of. No thanks.

dinsdale said...

poor relative said...

Link me to a credible scientific study that supports that statement and reinforce that point.

Whilst neither of these is a scientific study, you can easily get to the studies, if, as I very much doubt, you're interested. I have seen a list of a little over 1,000 peer-reviewed published studies on precisely this subject, but am having trouble remembering where it was. I'll keep looking though.

www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/falling-marriage-rates-hurting-children-report-20110905-1jubf.html

www.heraldsun.com.au/opinion/children-need-mum-and-dad-for-best-mental-health/story-e6frfhqf-1226132579875

www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/8064435/Children-in-single-parent-families-worse-behaved.html

Children in lesbian homes scored higher than kids in straight families on some psychological measures of self-esteem and confidence, did better academically and were less likely to have behavioral problems, such as rule-breaking and aggression.

"We simply expected to find no difference in psychological adjustment between adolescents reared in lesbian families and the normative sample of age-matched controls," says Gartrell. "I was surprised to find that on some measures we found higher levels of [psychological] competency and lower levels of behavioral problems. It wasn't something I anticipated."

www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1994480,00.html#ixzz1v5P3RStq
www.nllfs.org/images/uploads/pdf/nllfs-quality-life-january-2012.pdf

I also think that a child should have both a mother and a father, but if the facts say otherwise I'd have to change my opinion.

cisco said...


The point of my thread is that a group of 150 Doctors in Australia has come out in support of the concept that "raising children in a family where the parents are a loving heterosexual couple" is the healthiest environment for a child to grow in.

89,850 Drs disagree and have distanced themselves from this group.
Isn't that more significant?

One has to ask and answer the question:- If children being raised by adoptive parents, single parents and homosexual parents is sooooo correct, why do sooooo many of those children in later years make extreme efforts to connect with their biological parents?????

Seems to me they don't want to:-

"Imagine sitting around on a Sunday arvo with a couple of old men or old women and wondering whose dick or fanny they actually came out of."