Any abuse is unacceptable in my eyes. Problem is, a lot of abused men won't report the abuse they suffer so what can be done about it - and it's not just women who think it's funny, other men will mock as well.

To me it makes no difference the sex or orrientation of good parents. I would have preferred to have been raised in a loving and caring environment by same sex or a single parent than my natural parents who were not, IMO, fit to raise children.

We suffered what I call 'respectable abuse'. No physical abuse, but verbal and mental with care just the right side of the minimum needed, leaving me with problems it has taken me fifty years to sort out and a brother who has been involved with drink and drugs and is incapable of working at fifty. We were a disfunctional family who no longer keep in touch. Would we have been better with same sex parents, our own or adopted? I don't know, but maybe there would have been a chance that we might have felt wanted, rather than just an impediment.