the consequence of your life compared to that? Ned : 15 May 2012 5:25:10pm If you weren't raised by a same-sex couple then how could you possibly know what is different? You were presumably raised by one man and one woman. How do you know the things you learned from them would not have been totally different than if those people had been different personalities? Ever considered that your idea of gender roles only actually reflect that of your own parents? Maybe your own father was more feminine than many women, and exhibited more stereotypically female parenting attributes? It cuts both ways, you don't know what you didn't get. pooki : 15 May 2012 5:28:40pm Wow, Fred, that is a terribly mean reply. As I see, many of the children born to those around me are from a night of boozy fun, or an 'accident', or unplanned, or sometimes unwanted by one parent, etc. For a gay couple to go jumping thru a few hundred hoops to have their own family just goes to show that those children are dearly wanted, they didn't just show up by accident from a bit of leg-over in the back of a panel van... adam : 15 May 2012 5:33:24pm And vice versa, right? By growing up with both biological parents (male and female) you have no idea of the reality of having two loving same-sex parents who must have taken more time to think about having children, clearly making a more conscious effort