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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Would you be upset if I told my child that that is not really the case? That is back to the zygote thing. BTW, I am open minded enough that my kids at three knew what a zygote was, complete with microscope images. They know all about the human genome and more than most of their friends, so they already know that two women can not have a child. To me it is like calling your father's second wife a mother, just not factual. [/quote]

NP here - No offense, but you're nitpicking the biology here because you don't accept that gay parents constitute a family, and want to pass that message along to your kids without SEEMING like a homophobe.  You know full well that when discussing a family with a 5 yo, the important thing is the familial relationship, not the ins and outs of the biological ancestry.  The terms "mother" and "father" aren't used to identify the biological parents, they're used to identify the role in the family structure.  A female parent is known as a mother, the child has two female parents, therefore, the child has two mothers.  If you're telling them that isn't true, you're the one who's confusing them.

Do you also tell them that the heterosexual couple who adopted a kid in their class aren't really the kid's parents?  It's exactly the same principle.

On another note, I wonder if your slavish devotion to science holds when your kids are taught about evolution?  After all, that is the scientific explanation for the beginning of human life.  Do you let it go at that?  [/quote]

Now that you bring it up. We spend a ton of time at museums and talk about evolution, natural selection, and so on. No Adam and Eve, never was, sorry. The first time I heard about Heather and two mommies, I said, may as well tell them about the stork, just dumb. FWIW, two of my gay friends have kids, and those kids have a mother and father regardless of marriage. In this case, no anonymous donors, just decided to have kids with people they liked. My kids have an adopted cousin, and they KNOW that he has a bio mom somewhere in CA, and he was legally adopted by his parents. [/quote]

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