A Post For Peiper

 

1. Someday I hope to hear of an article from Britain that is not based on raving lunacy.  Without even touching the homosexual adoption question, the idea that a woman 46 years old and a man 59 years old are too old to be parents is the beginning of the insanity. 

   Given the ages of the children, the wife would have been 41 and 42 at the time of the births and the man 53 and 54.  Especially in the last decade, women in their forties conceiving and carrying babies to term is no longer that unusual.  Does this mean that the child of a forty something woman should be taken from her immediately after birth because she is “too old”?  As far as the man is concerned, I am only slightly younger than he is and I would have absolutely no trouble conceiving a child, nor raising one if required.

   Last, but not by any means least, is the whole idea of what qualifies someone to be a parent.  The children are of the grandparents blood and obviously loved and wanted by the grandparents.  The grandparents are experienced at raising children.  Being raised by the grandparents would give the children the traditional mother and father family roles, that are still the best known way to raise children, regardless of the functionality of any other possible option.  By being raised by the grandparents, the children would have a connection with their family.  I presume that would be the usual collection of aunts, uncles, cousins, great grandparents and the rest.  The children would have a dependable place in the scheme of things to help them locate themselves in the world, they would not be disconnected from their blood kin, their family.  What other possible requirements are needed?  What could be better for the children than to know that their family fought tooth and nail for them?  What possible question could remain that they were wanted?

   I can’t leave out the part that makes my blood boil:

   The final blow came when they were told the children were going to a gay household, even though several heterosexual couples wanted them. When the grandfather protested, he was told: ‘You can either accept it, and there’s a chance you’ll see the children twice a year, or you can take that stance and never see them again.’

   I believe that individual would best serve British society by going to sea - in the bait tank of a fishing boat.

   Posted by Dr. Jeff       01/30/2009  at  02:17 AM  

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