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First gay couple to become fathers in UK expecting fourth child

CaptainCourtesy said:
I'm lucky. I can go long periods of time completely ignoring chocolate and other desserts.

I've never tasted coffee, but I'd imagine it'd be too bitter for me, too.
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Very lucky. If i cut out sugar from my life, i'd probably be so skinny but i can resist chocolate or toffee.

I hate coffee, don't bother. It destroys your tastebuds.
 
Laila said:
Don't want my favourite MOD dropping dead from exhaustion now do we? :mrgreen:
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Nah...at least I better not.

I'm young enough to still be in the habit of grabbing sleep when i can, i'm only 23. I can still last on a few hours sleep
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Eh, I'm somewhat older, but I can usually handle it, too. Every once in a while a nap during the day helps. :mrgreen:
 
Laila said:
Very lucky. If i cut out sugar from my life, i'd probably be so skinny but i can resist chocolate or toffee.
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I love fruit, though, so I get some natural sugar that way.

I hate coffee, don't bother. It destroys your tastebuds.
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I don't do caffeine, anymore, so I wouldn't see the point of even trying.
 
CaptainCourtesy said:
It's a reference to the movie, National Lampoon's Vacation, starring Chevy Chase. How it relates to this thread is completely lost to me.
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Wally World is also the slang name for Wal-Mart.

Oh, and I love you, Captain Courtesy! In a heterosexual-male-who-reads-your-posts-a-lot kinda way. :2wave:
 
Sergeant Stinger1 said:
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OK! I'll post my evidence BUT you post YOUR evidence that these kids were NOT harmed by abnormal parents.
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My evidence:
John and Hank (i'll leave the last names out) got (married:roll:), adopted 2 boys and moved around here. They were in my next door neighbors grandsons class and so many of the other boys and girls made fun of them that they took the kids out of school and moved to another state.
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The problem in this little scenario isn't the homosexual parents, it's the children who were allowed to make fun of them, and maybe even the school itself. Think about it; children can handle a little ribbing, but if it gets to the point where parents have to move to another state to protect their children, that sounds like a lot more than simple 'making fun of'. That sounds like 'making fun of' became 'threatened the health and well-being of', in which case - again - it's the children commiting such acts who are at fault, as well as the teachers and school administration for allowing this to happen in the first place. Those children should have been disciplined and taught that two daddys or two mommys is perfectly acceptable, and certainly nothing to terrorize a child over. The school teachers and administration should have been disciplined as well if they allowed this stuff to happen.
 
This thread prompted me to research this topic of homosexual parents in depth.

The fundamental arguments against homosexual couples raising children is that the children will face additional stresses due to the stigma associated with homosexuality and will not develop as well due to not having a mother and a father. These arguments seem entirely speculative.

The first argument does not seem to account for the type of homosexual population that would adopt children. In other words, arguing stresses faced by the homosexual population as a whole would be experienced the same as the population of homosexual couples who wish to adopt children, is statistically fallacious reasoning.

There is compelling evidence that children need exposure to both sexes to have a healthy development, but I could not find evidence which indicated that the parents have to be opposite sexes. It would seem that children can find role models of different sexes outside of their families.

I did find a consistent consensus among peer reviewed research that children of gays and lesbians demonstrated no better or worse development than children of heterosexuals, so the speculative arguments may be moot.

http://www.ru.edu/faculty/rboughner/courses/Alternative activities/Children of gays.pdf
 
Owl said:
God hates the workers of iniquity,Psalm 5:4-5.He hates sinners who refuse to obey His commandments and follow Christ.Yes God hates disobedient people including gays who live in their reprobate lifestyles.
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If you want to spend your life being hateful of people that God created with purpose go right ahead. But it's sad that you don't understand God.
 
Singularity said:
The problem in this little scenario isn't the homosexual parents, it's the children who were allowed to make fun of them, and maybe even the school itself. Think about it; children can handle a little ribbing, but if it gets to the point where parents have to move to another state to protect their children, that sounds like a lot more than simple 'making fun of'. That sounds like 'making fun of' became 'threatened the health and well-being of', in which case - again - it's the children commiting such acts who are at fault, as well as the teachers and school administration for allowing this to happen in the first place. Those children should have been disciplined and taught that two daddys or two mommys is perfectly acceptable, and certainly nothing to terrorize a child over. The school teachers and administration should have been disciplined as well if they allowed this stuff to happen.
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Well yes, it got that bad somehow or other.
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Sit the kids down, discipline them and teach them that 2 daddys or 2 mommys is perfectly acceptable???
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So, you want our teachers to get into telling the kids that 2 Gay mommys and daddys are ok or they are not ok????
Your way out there!
What they should do is teach the children their ABC's and nothing more because they are not qualified to give those answers to any kids.
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The kids daddy and mommy thought that it would be better if they moved away.
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Like I said in a previous post here one of them was a brother to a guy that worked for me and we all honestly tried to get them to stay but they didn't.
They moved 40 miles away in Mass.
They bought a really nice house there with about 4 bedrooms, a huge rear patio and a swimming pool.
How do I know?
We all helped them move after we could not convince them to stay.
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Its a real sad situation all around.:(
 
CaptainCourtesy said:
Yes. So?
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Enjoy your golf game.

I'm curious, do you yell "four" when you hit the ball, or do you hold up pictures of smilies? :mrgreen::mrgreen::mrgreen:
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Capt. I gotta say that that is a great one.:yes:

You guys must have brought me luck because I shot way over my head.
I'm a 12 handicap but I shot 7 over.:mrgreen:
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Guess where i'm headed to in a hour or so?
Yup! I'm not satisfied leaving well enough alone so i'll try again.
 
CriticalThought said:
This thread prompted me to research this topic of homosexual parents in depth.

The fundamental arguments against homosexual couples raising children is that the children will face additional stresses due to the stigma associated with homosexuality and will not develop as well due to not having a mother and a father. These arguments seem entirely speculative.

The first argument does not seem to account for the type of homosexual population that would adopt children. In other words, arguing stresses faced by the homosexual population as a whole would be experienced the same as the population of homosexual couples who wish to adopt children, is statistically fallacious reasoning.

There is compelling evidence that children need exposure to both sexes to have a healthy development, but I could not find evidence which indicated that the parents have to be opposite sexes. It would seem that children can find role models of different sexes outside of their families.

I did find a consistent consensus among peer reviewed research that children of gays and lesbians demonstrated no better or worse development than children of heterosexuals, so the speculative arguments may be moot.

http://www.ru.edu/faculty/rboughner/courses/Alternative activities/Children of gays.pdf
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I applaud you for doing research and coming to conclusions based on that research.
 
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