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Originally Posted by jambutty
Then what happens when it comes to mixing with other ‘normal’ kids in school? I know that kids are resilient and tend to accept life as it is but they can also be very cruel. Imagine what a child of a lesbian couple is likely to go through once it becomes known that it has two mothers and no dad? There is enough bullying in school for all sorts of other reasons without giving the bullies another arrow to their bullying bow.
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I belive this view is one that is incredibly out of touch with reality.
First of all, bullies will attack for reasons of personal cowardice, fear, and ideas of social gain. They will pick on
any peer they view as weaker than themselves.
Secondly there's such a wide variety in family diversity on a modern day playground that any one child's family circumstance is
very likely to differ greatly from that of any other respective child. For this reason I think the "I'm in a regular 2.4 children family and you are not" view of a bully is non-existant. There's more lone-parent families, inter-racial families, young families etc. than ever before and if anything I think it's the safest time for a child to be born unto a same-sex couple.