I recently read an article quoting Pope Francis about how children must have a father and a mother. I’ve liked much of what this pope has said and done lately. I like his focus on the Church being more concerned with taking care of the poor, and I like how he handled the Bishop of Bling case in Germany. Having said that, right now I’m going to say he can kiss my ass.
I am so sick of people attacking nontraditional families, and I’m especially tired of the ongoing rants against LGBT parents.
Currently, there are around 104,000 children awaiting adoption from the foster care system in the United States alone. Each year about 20,000 of those kids will age out of the system without having a permanent family.
I was one of them.
Imagine how much better it would be if all eligible people were encouraged to adopt rather than being exposed to round after round of ridicule and disdain. At an adoption conference I went to a few years ago we were told that if just 1% of the LGBT community adopted, there would be no waiting children to adopt.
But rather than looking at how we can support single and LGBT parents, political and religious leaders often choose to crap all over us in their rhetoric.
And they aren’t just doing it to us, they’re doing it to our children. How do you think one of our kids, who probably had no choice about being part of a nontraditional family, feels when they read or hear things like this? Should they feel they are subpar because they were unlucky enough to have only a mom who loved them? Should my son feel even worse that he lost his biological parents and siblings only to end up with a gay dad?
We see so much violence in the US, and I have to wonder if things might be different if people stopped preaching hate against and being derogatory toward certain groups.
When I was a teenager and so desperate for a family, I wouldn’t have cared what gender mix, how many parents, what color or even what religion they were. I just wanted a family! I wanted someone who loved me and wanted me. Unlike the mother and father duo who decided to not adopt me because I wasn’t as easy as they had hoped. And, they didn’t realize how much their life would change with a teenager in the house.
Unlike my father who abandoned me and my mother who sexually. emotionally, and physically abused me before abandoning me as well.
Had a nontraditional family been able to adopt in those days, maybe I would have a family that extends beyond me, my son (who is adopted), and my “family by choice.” Not that I’m not grateful for all of them. My chosen family has been phenomenal for both me and my child. But what I wouldn’t have given to have my own parent(s)!
We see constant discussion about the sanctity of life. So many people want to force a woman to carry a pregnancy to term, but they don’t give a crap about what happens to that child once it’s born. Instead, that single mom, if she decides to keep it, will be berated for being a single parent. After all, don’t we all know that a child needs both a mother and father?
What a skanky ho she must be!
This is something that is quite peculiar to the human race. Most animal species do not raise their young as a two-parent unit. In most cases, once a child is old enough to fend for themselves, it’s sayonara time!
Our human family units are unnatural by that very definition.
These types of ignorant people would rather over 100,000 children wait in foster care with no permanent family than allow them to be adopted by a single man or woman, or—God forbid—a 2-mother or 2-father household.
And, really, that is the greater crime.
People like the Pope who are more concerned with parental gender and numbers are visiting more unnecessary harm on children, and for that they can all kiss my ass.
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