"We just get it spoon-fed to us [that] everything’s great, everything’s perfect, there’s no difference between, you know a couple of dads, a couple of moms, couple of bis and a couple of pre-op transsexuals, and a mom and a dad…no difference. Now look, I’m all for gays adopting but let’s not mistake it for being nearly as good as a mother and a father. It’s not nearly as good as a mommy and a daddy… all things being equal, it is much better for a mother and a father to raise a child than it is two of anything, all things being equal."
Adam Carolla on his syndicated radio show LoveLine.
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'it is much better fro a mother and a father to raise a child'
ReplyDeleteGood gawd! That statement bugs the heck out of me as I see the utter destruction that a man and a woman can do to a child. Many of them are my students.
The statement should be a child needs a loving, mature adult. Better yet, a child needs two loving, mature adults. And extended family and friends and neighbors. Children can absorb a lot of love.
The very fact that you are a male, or a female, capable of reproducing guarantees absolutely nothing.
I agree with frogponder! Why can't these people see it can be just as destructive being raised with a mom and dad also. One of my close friends was raised with his parents who just fought like cats and dogs. And he was beat by his father constantly. His uncle and his patner ended up taking him in and was brought up the well. He wouldn't turn all the time being raised with them anyday. He is now married and says everything he learned was from his uncle and his other uncle!
ReplyDeleteAdam was/is 100% right. He didn't say that gay couples couldn't be good parents and he didn't deny that hetero couples were sometimes awful parents.
ReplyDeleteHe merely stated the fact that hetero parents are better "all other things being equal". A child does best with both male and female guidance. A fact that should be just plain common sense.
Personally, I have met dozens of gay people and the lesbians were, every last one of them, severely neurotic and irrational men-haters. I would hate for two such people to raise a child.
Anon,
ReplyDeleteAdam is 100% wrong.
It isn't "better" to have a mom and a dad. It's better to be raised in a loving nurturing environment, whether mom and dad, dad and dad, mom and mom, dad, mom.
Guidance is gender neutral, neither male nor female.
And as for your last comment, that it entirely a bigoted phrase, unless of course I'm wrong and you've met every singl eLesbian couple on the planet and found them to be horrible.
Because I've met dozens of heterosexual parents who were monsters to their children. Doesn't make all heterosexual parents awful.
Expand your mind.
Bad parents are bad parents because of who they are, not because of their gender or sexual orientation.
Saying its better to have a mommy and a daddy than two of something else, is about as logical as saying that a ham and cheese sandwich is 'better' than a cheese and cheese sandwich. Both are delicious and nutritional.
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