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[quote=Anonymous]I do think there is value in having parents of two genders to learn how to behave with people of both genders, and although these studies are compelling, I do think something is missing when children don't live with both genders.   This goes for hetero single parents as well.   I think humanity figured this out early on and this is why marriage was structured the way it is, to maximize development of children.

So many gender roles are taught this way. In a way that the occasional visit from uncle, aunt, grandpa, our neighbor doesn't deeply satisfy it.   Our neighbors are lesbians raising two boys.  They cling to my husband when he comes over, because they are so hungry to just see male behavior from a father figure.  Their grandfather visits regularly. but they honestly find my husband more compelling..  The boys mother is very handy and fix most stuff on her own, but again- I think it's just a hunger to be around other men.  When they come over to play, they spend much of their time following my husband around.   I am not pathologizing any of this, and I know that their mothers love them very much.  I just see there is a hole to be filled there that no one is acknowledging in this conversation.  [/quote]

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