Message from @shlendie
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Adopting is great if you also have kids if your own. Adopting is not a replacement for reproduction.
And I didn’t say that wendie
Stop strawmanning
"Children need a father figure"
then all single mothers should have their children taken away from them
"I never made that claim"
Uh yeah
You’re jumping to conclusions that I never said
You literally just said children need a father figure, therefore children should not be raised by a single mother
Uh no
So do children need a father figure or not?
Go back and read what he wrote
It’s better for them to be raised in a traditional nuclear family with a father figure, I never proposed removing children from single mother homes
You can’t just attack claims that I’ve never made
I know you didn't, but if you're against me adopting because of children's "need" for a father figure, it's hypocrisy to be against lesbians adopting for lack of a man
while not for a single mother
If I were to say, “children should eat meat”, that doesn’t mean I want to remove children from all vegetarian homes
But I am against single mothers adopting
That doesn’t mean I’m proposing confiscating kids though
You can’t just assume that
But the fact of the matter is, a father and mother figure are essential to a child’s development
And the idea that you would want to deny your future children of that, is selfish and negligent
Studies find no differences in the mental health of children raised by gay parents vs straight, while children in foster care suffer from pstd more than our soldiers
Reallly
I’d like to see these supposed studies
Just in case you needed a few different sources ^
Meanwhile, children in foster care are very likely to develop mental health issues
https://www.fosterfocusmag.com/articles/post-traumatic-stress-disorder-not-just-soldiers-problem
https://sparkaction.org/content/study-one-four-foster-children-suffer-ptsd
So how can you sit there and call me selfish for not wanting to bring more children into this world and instead help some children that would otherwise be miserable, when there is proof that my adopted children won't turn out any worse than if I were to marry a man?
https://www.google.com/amp/www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-1027-goldberg-family-structure-20151027-column.html%3foutputType=amp
https://www.hindawi.com/journals/drt/2016/2410392/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0049089X12000610
https://www.childwelfare.gov/pubPDFs/fatherhood.pdf
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4240051/
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/o1xf78EltKM/maxresdefault.jpg
Don't get me wrong, I am well aware that there are shocking statistics to show that children from fatherless homes are more likely to have issues, however, these types of fatherless homes aren't gay homes, but rather they tend to be situations where the father just left and the family is struggling to get by and dealing with more problems than just the absence of a man
Look at all the links wendie
That first link has "opinion" right in the name
But I'll still read
I’ve got stats regarding same sex couples too
Again, Adoption is noble but not a replacement for reproduction. If you want to adopt, go ahead, but you should also have children of your own in order to secure the existence of our people and to not destroy your bloodline.
Otherwise, after your death, you won’t live on through your children. Your genes will be destroyed forever. Thousands of years of lives and reproduction and history that lives inside you will be dead forever due to your personal choices.
I have a brother, my bloodline will be fine. I have cousins and they have kids, my decision to not have children won't hurt my bloodline
Besides, I have a few genetic problems such as being prone to cancer that I wouldn't want to put onto a child