Carmen Chan/ Two Mommies Is One Too Many

The three main points of the article are:

1)What kind of family environment is best for the health and development of children?

2)The importance of a mother and father role (traditional nuclear family)

3)Comparing similar situations to same-sex couples having/ adopting children.

I do agree with in the author that two mommies (or daddies) is one too many.

The article touches on important factors that come into play when deciding if having same sex couples should have children of their own. I agree with the author when he said that 'love alone is not enough to guarantee healthy growth and development...' this is very true as the development of a child is far more complicated than just receiving love from their parents. Hence, i believe that the best family environment for the health and development of the children is when there is a mother and a father looking after the children.

Secondly, i agree with the author when he said that 'A father, as a male parent, makes unique contributions to the task of parenting that a mother cannot emulate, and vice versa.' This is because it is simply impossible for a young boy to learn 'manly' qualities from his mother; nor is it possible for a young girl to learn feminism from her father. Simply put, a child needs both a father and a mother figure to develop into who he or she is to become. Thus, the traditional family nucleus is extremely important.

Lastly, although there a similar situations that involve only one parent of either gender looking after a child,(i.e. single parent families or divorced parents), i concede that although it is not the ideal situation for a child to be put in, i believe that these situations are simply not the same. As the author put it "We should not enter into yet another untested and far-reaching social experiment, this one driven by the desires of same-sex couples to bear and raise children."