Review: Educating about the consequences of marriage equality
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 1, 2013
This book is about two children, one male and one female, that have two uncles that are domestic partners. The uncles do the things that older relatives do for young nieces and nephews, they are depicted as not being unusual in any way. From the flow of the story, the two men appear to be day care providers/home schoolers for the children, for in the story the uncles take the children out to play every day and are teaching them how to read and write. Other activities are baking, washing clothes, taking the children to the doctor, watching television and putting the children to bed. Other adults that appear to be the parents don't appear until midway through the book.The images depict a safe and loving environment, two gay men that are described as pseudo-parents to two normal children. One amusing point was when there was mention of the four watching football on television. There were two images associated with that reference, one that showed American football and the other that showed soccer.In a world where same-sex couples are increasingly becoming parents, there should be more books for children on this topic. Not to educate the children with same-sex parents but to educate those children that do not have two parents of the same gender. American society is now extremely accepting of same-sex marriage and so there is a need to begin accepting the natural consequences. This book is an excellent and beginning step on the road to accepting all that same-sex marriage entails. It is written for ages 4-8.