There are more or less two thousand children in my pediatric medical practice. No fewer than thirty are the children of same-gender couples. Some are adopted, some the biological offspring of one of the parents from a previous heterosexual relationship, and some were conceived by artificial insemination. All are loved and treasured, as all children should be.
Which is why I was stunned this week when a parent, whose child had been called back as one of my same-gender couples was exiting, asked me in a whisper as the nurse was weighing his child how it was that I could "condone" children being raised "unnaturally". "I feel bad for that kid (a boy), having two moms and no dad", he said.
I answered that I didn't feel bad at all for him, that he had two parents who loved him very much, and that little else mattered. He looked at me as if I had two heads, shook his slightly, and we moved on to his child's appointment.
Read More