A rant.

So I just finished reading someone else's blog in regards to the 'gay children's books' and, subsequently, gay parenting. The person was against both, stating that the best place for a child is with both a Mum and Dad. Of course there was no mention of whether this Mum and Dad were the best parents for the child.

But then, being heterosexual and also in a couple, surely they must be?

Well, no actually. What about the parents recently in the news who starved their eleven month old baby to death weighing only 10lb? Or the Mum who pitted her children against each other making them fight in front of a video camera 'for a laugh'? Or, in the most extreme circumstances, Fred and Rose West?

Are these people good parents? No. Not by any stretch of the imagination. But they're the child's natural parents. So should they be left with them? Apparently so if 'the best place for a child' is with their Mum and Dad.

The UK recently ranked lowest in Europe for our children's well-being, so clearly something is going wrong somewhere along the line. Could it possibly be that so many people are getting pregnant without thinking of the consequences, later treating the child no better than they would a dog?

I don’t think that a pregnancy has to be planned. But I do think that when a child is brought into a home it should be looked after and loved.

And love has nothing to do with sexuality or marital status.

I guess the point I'm making is that parents should be assessed on the people they are as opposed to the label they carry.

A good single or gay parent is better than an abusive mother and father.

The people who hide their own prejudices under the façade of 'children's best interests' are doing no-one any good, least of all the children they're claiming to protect.

In an ideal world a child would be safe with any adult it was left with. But this isn't an ideal world by any means, so wouldn't it be better to find parents that will look after children properly?

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