Gay Parents
An interesting article about Gay Parents in the New York Times
Some excerpts:
"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — ... These days, there are eight churches that openly welcome gay worshipers."
While 8 isn't great, it's more than I would have expected.
"“We’re starting to see that the gay community is very diverse,” said Bob Witeck, chief executive of Witeck-Combs Communications..."
They seem to know as little about the rest of the world as I know about Jacksonville.
"Black or Latino gay couples are twice as likely as whites to be raising children... They are also more likely than their white counterparts to be struggling economically."
How do those figures compare to straight couples? It's possible these things have little or nothing to do with being gay...
"“What did we do? We wandered around lost. We married men, and then couldn’t understand why every night we had a headache.”"
When I taught English in Egypt, people would come in with some funny questions. Setting aside the difficulty of determining Darlene to be a female's name, they would ask something like, "what does being gay and marrying a man have to do with having a headache every night?" Then we would have a conversation about phrasal verbs. To "have a headache"...
"Moreover, gay men who have children do so an average of three years earlier than heterosexual men, census data shows, Mr. Gates said."
Speaking of phrasal verbs with the verb "to have," I like how "to have children" is slowly shifting from the physical connotation of "birthing" to a more general "acquiring children in one way or another," so that gay men can "have a baby." Or maybe there have been advances in medical science of which I'm not aware...
Some excerpts:
"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — ... These days, there are eight churches that openly welcome gay worshipers."
While 8 isn't great, it's more than I would have expected.
"“We’re starting to see that the gay community is very diverse,” said Bob Witeck, chief executive of Witeck-Combs Communications..."
They seem to know as little about the rest of the world as I know about Jacksonville.
"Black or Latino gay couples are twice as likely as whites to be raising children... They are also more likely than their white counterparts to be struggling economically."
How do those figures compare to straight couples? It's possible these things have little or nothing to do with being gay...
"“What did we do? We wandered around lost. We married men, and then couldn’t understand why every night we had a headache.”"
When I taught English in Egypt, people would come in with some funny questions. Setting aside the difficulty of determining Darlene to be a female's name, they would ask something like, "what does being gay and marrying a man have to do with having a headache every night?" Then we would have a conversation about phrasal verbs. To "have a headache"...
"Moreover, gay men who have children do so an average of three years earlier than heterosexual men, census data shows, Mr. Gates said."
Speaking of phrasal verbs with the verb "to have," I like how "to have children" is slowly shifting from the physical connotation of "birthing" to a more general "acquiring children in one way or another," so that gay men can "have a baby." Or maybe there have been advances in medical science of which I'm not aware...
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