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Thread #92467   Message #1768621
Posted By: alanabit
25-Jun-06 - 08:42 AM
Thread Name: BS: 'Gay' parents?
Subject: RE: BS: 'Gay' parents?
Akenaton: I have been away for a day - busking, karate training and the World Cup! So I am only now able to respond to a couple of your points.
Where I think you are on stronger ground, is that it is possible that a climate of political correctness may have given increased protection to perverts (who also happened to be homosexual). I have not lived in the UK for over twenty years, so I am open to the suggestion that may have been the case. As for the suitability of homosexuals in general to have care of children, I am unable to improve on Don T's remarks.
There are a couple of questions, which you asked earlier, which deserve an answer. The most important was about in what cases it would be the best solution to place a child in the care of two male homosexuals. I would say in rare cases, but that there are cases. I saw a TV documentary in Germany, where just that had happened to a couple of lads in the Eifel, to the south west of Cologne. They seemed happy, content and well cared for. They certainly preferred it to living in a children's home or returning to a disfunctional family. I could also imagine that in a household, in which a gay teenager's sexuality was emerging and was neither accepted nor accommodated by the family, it would be better to place the child with understanding carers.
The less important question was about whether I experienced unwanted attention from potential abusers in my childhood. If I did, I am unable to recall it now. I do not want to repeat the story again, as it is elsewhere on Mudcat, but I certainly was one recipient of brutal treatment, when I was eight. That was from the headmaster, who was in charge of a small, private school. To the parents, he came over as the most urbane and charming man. He was not homosexual. If anyone dares to handle my children as he handled the kids in his care, they had better hope that the police catch them before I do.