*sigh* TIA I am not trying to rip anyone apart. I am presenting the very real "flip side" of the (currently) politically correct coin.

It's regrettable that so many people obviously would rather not look at it, and take such personal offense to it.

All people face some sort of risk. If you're human, it goes with the territory. My point is that in the past and at the present time, gays as a group have faced and continue to face significantly greater risks than straights as a group - physically, socially, emotionally and psychologically. And any children they choose to involve in their lifestyle also, unfortunately, face those greater risks. For better or worse.

It looks like there are many measures being taken to address those risks and the problems they create, such as the self-help support groups for children and adult children of gay parents I linked to above. And that's a very good thing!

I'm glad that your relatives are happy and well-adjusted. Perhaps I should make it a point to find and study the happy, healthy, stable, socially well-adjusted gay couples in my community (must be here somewhere!) that I haven't had the pleasure (and relief) of meeting yet? I don't think so. That sounds like quite an invasion of privacy, to me. Maybe I'll get lucky enough to meet a few of them sometime soon.

At any rate, I sure didn't "seek out" any of the ones I've known or know now! I'm just living my typical little life, minding my own typical little business ... and there they've been.

Reading this thread is enough to assure me that there's plenty of happy healthy well-adjusted gays out there. So thank you for adding to the positive testimonials, TIA.

I thought the poll had fallen to the wayside so I'd stopped counting, but I'll add your "yes" to the results if you like.

So that's 4 yeses, 3 no's and a moooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooot! (for comic relief).

daylia