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Even when family relationships are solid, a parent's unconventional sexuality can complicate life for children, particularly during adolescence. Atlanta bookstore owner Linda Bryant adopted a 10-month-old biracial boy before she came out. He is now 18 and heterosexual. Growing up, he sympathetically compared her situation to the racial prejudice he encountered. When he was 12, she recalls, he said gently, "Mom, you know, it's not an accepted thing." Will Dixon-Gray, who lives in Freeport, New York, with his adopted son Ed, 16, says the boy was uncomfortable for a long time with his father...
...majority of gay parents are women, both because courts are more apt to award custody to mothers and because of the lesbian baby boom. Gay men are increasingly seeking to join them. Tim Fisher lives in Montclair, New Jersey, with his longtime lover Scott Davenport and their daughter Kari, 3, and son Fritz, 1. The children, biologically Fisher's, were conceived via surrogate mothers. Fisher is a stay-at-home dad: "I didn't just want to become a parent. I wanted a family. I wanted the hands-on experience." Davenport admits, "I was skeptical. But becoming parents...
Gays say that what makes their children uncomfortable is not homosexuality itself but society's intolerant attitude toward it. Conservatives counter that the discomfort comes from learning the useful lesson that a parent's life- style is immoral...
...Patterson by pointing out that she is an acknowledged lesbian, with a presumed ideological interest in the subject she studies. They counter with the Family Research Institute study of 1983 and a further survey in Dallas in 1984. Of 5,162 respondents, only 17 reported having had a homosexual parent. Of those, 11 "explicitly attributed their sexual orientation, in part at least, to parental homosexuality." Even the people who conducted this survey concede that the sample was far too small to be reliable. Moreover, if recent research is right in suggesting a genetic basis for homosexuality, it may be that...
Most people agree that a child is best off growing up in an intact family with two loving parents. Most heterosexuals, and even a lot of gays, think it is better if there is one parent of each gender. Rarely is that the choice. Custody battles arise because parents split up. Children available for adoption have already lost their birth parents. Children conceived by artificial insemination would not otherwise have been born. For Tyler Bottoms and countless children like him, abstract assumptions about bettering his future mean far less than the present pain and confusion of having his family...