Well^^ It’s funny that an article so against misinformation is seemingly sprinkled with it.

There’s this:
“Every new baby is a sign of hope, a sign that someone believes in the future.”
Huh. I love babies, and I have all kinds of maternal instinct, etc, but that statement is a huge blanket sweep that covers a lot of things; one could say that a lot of babies aren’t quite a result of a belief in the future, as they are a promiscuous couple not -thinking- of the future.

But this is my favorite^^
“Children of single mothers are more likely… [insert all the bad things here.] Fatherless boys are more likely to end up in prison, fatherless girls are at risk for early sexual activity themselves.”
Here’s where you -really- risk muddling yourself in misinformation.
“Fatherless”? or “without a second parent”?
Two entirely different things; and it’s disastrously misleading to those who are unaware of the difference.
‘Fatherless’ implies that lesbians are thrown into this category; and I’m sure that that wasn’t ever confirmed or even considered in any of the research that yielded your data. If you’d like to prove me wrong, cite your research.

For all this, though, I still agree with most of what’s being said here. Promiscuity is bad, finding true love should be the real goal, and all that other stuff I’m on about most of the time. But frankly, I’m finding that MercatorNet seems to beating us over the head with it as of late. How ‘bout preaching to someone other than the choir?

Anyways, that’s my take on this article as a whole. Fairly nice, but being hypocritical is something to be avoided.

Have a nice day, all^^

It’s really hard for biased self-interested individuals to understand the fundamental facts about humanity. It ain’t preaching, just plain old common sense understanding of who we are. Back to basics, “man and woman He made them...”. Until we act and conduct ourselves the way we were created then we won’t understand the fundamental truths in life.

“How ‘bout preaching to someone other than the choir?” Wow! Nobody’s is forced to read anything: why are you so mad at? Just don’t read it…
If you’ve got any arguments, just write them down (I´ve not noticed any, btw).Words like “hypocritical” are just that, lack of reasons.

Dear Lesbian Down the Street:
Mothers and Fathers are not interchangeable. Father absence produces different results than mother absence. Heck, father absence at different times in a child’s life produces different results. “Without a second parent” covers too many cases which are distinct and have been studied separately. For instance, stepfamilies (two parents in the household) are different from intact married couples, are different from cohabiting couples are different from never married mothers are different from divorced parents.
Lesbian couples are too few and too new to be as thoroughly studied as are opposite sex couples. But the data is quite clear that family form matters, and that parents of both sexes matter.

Interesting article.  But what country do these statistics come from?  The author seems to assume that we know.  That in itself suggests it must be about the US, whose commentators often appear blithely uninterested in other countries.  Is Mercator an American site, or is it international?  If the latter, is it too much to ask that its writers specify what places they are writing about?  The assumption that every article must be about America unless the contrary is stated is a little offensive to people from other places.

The “Lesbian down the street” needs to read a couple of other reports in MercantorNet. “Tell us about love” by Carolyn Moynihan and “Character-based Sex Education” by Thomas Lickana to complete her education on ‘research’ that she suggests. And there has been plenty of research on SSA that she could also read which will educater her and hopefully lead her back to a ‘real’ life by the N.A.R.T.H. If you really want the truth Ms Lesbian down the street, it’s only a couple of key strokes away on your key board. Been there; done that. Recovering SSA man.

Thank God that St Joseph was a ‘real’ man and did not divorce Mary when it “appeared” that she was an adultress.

Every child needs a father and a mother, otherwise it’s a pathology. That’s why so many people are against homosexuals adopting babies. Me too.

I am a social policy writer for The Australian and the picture that is presented in this article is similar to the situation in Australia.In 30 years the number of single mothers in Australia has increased ten fold.This includes single parents who are divorced. But the rate of mothers having children outside wedlock has more than tripled.For reasons that are not clear, possibly better sex education or early contraception the teenage rate of births and abortions in Australia is not particularly high. It has remained static for over ten years. However the birthrate among SINGLE twenty something girls has sky rocketed.So has the abortion rate .In fact most abortions take place in the 20 -25 age group.
This means of course that the rate of FATHERS having children outside marriage has commensurately increased, and the instability financial and emotional that this encourages is obvious. In fact many social scientists have noted a new trend ,an underclass of single twenty something parents who never expect to marry the father - or mother of their child.All approved of by an increasingly individualist society. A.

Dear Lesbian,
Why do you insist on defining yourself by your sexual habit. Isn’t there more to you than that.
Mr Conrad from Nigeria