What makes somebody the best parent in the world? A child May respond to that question by saying a mommy or a daddy who will give them as many cookies as they wanted before lunchtime. Teenagers may claim that the best parents out there are the ones who will give them the total freedom to explore the world, and make it their own. Who is to say that only a heterosexual couple can comply with the wishes of their son or daughter, to make them the best parents in the world? Gay parenting has been around for centuries, although it has not been as open to the public the way it has been for the last past decade. The question is, is gay parenting better or worse for a child’s life as a whole?
“If same-sex marriage does disadvantage to kids in any way,
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It promotes and normalizes a family structure that necessarily denies us something precious and foundational. It denies us something we need and long for, while at the same time tells us that we don’t need what we naturally crave, that we will be okay. But we’re not. We’re hurting” (Cassandra, Adam). It is apparent that a marriage is traditionally by a man and woman, and kids are raised seeing movies, reading books, and adapting to a world where a father and mother raise their children. It is fantastic that everyone in this new and revolutionized twenty-first century world are able to love who they please to, but “The richest and most successful same-sex couple still cannot provide a child something that the poorest and most struggling spouses can provide: a mom and a dad.” (Robert Oscar Lopez). Depriving a child from the bond, connecting feeling of a nurturing mother or an ingenious father can cause a child to feel empty, or feel as if something is missing in their life. “It’s disturbingly classist and elitist for gay men to think they can love their children unreservedly after treating their surrogate mother like an incubator, or for lesbians to think they can love their children unconditionally after treating their sperm-donor father like a tube of toothpaste.” (Robert Oscar Lopez). A child eight to thirteen years of age are at their developing stage, that's when a kid needs a father the most to coach