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Originally Posted by Nyororin
I went to school with two girls who had gay parents. One`s father came out of the closet when she was a baby - mom left, and she was raised by her father and his boyfriend. (A relationship which really, in my eyes, should have been seen as a marriage.) No one ever made fun of her. In fact, she always said pretty much no one even knew about it unless they were close friends with her. In grade school, other kids don`t really care. When you`re older, how much do you talk about your parents to your classmates?
She was never bullied as far as I know.
The other had been adopted by a lesbian couple. She called one mom and one by name. Everyone sort of assumed one was her mom and one was her aunt but if asked she volunteered the information willingly that they were both technically "mom". Again, no bullying that I ever heard about.
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One of my best friend's dad came out when he was in elementary school, got a divorce from his wife. It was pretty tramautic for a boy that age to deal with it, but you know what? We all dealt with it and learned about gays together as friends (I think it was 5th grade), and even then it never occured to me, or to anyone that he should be made fun of. Everyone was more sad for him that his parents were divorcing than anything...and even years later everyone in high school knew and no one ever said a word...either to his face or behind his back.
In a perfect world, I do agree that the ultimate situation is for a child to experience life with his birth mother and father. But in a perfect world kids wouldn't need to be adopted, so you can go ahead and say "Gay couples are not ideal parents" but a lot of them are better and more loving than what your ideal of the "perfect couple" would be.