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Originally Posted by NitroNutter
Well start with academcally at school, children are the meanest of beings at times and if something is different about the odd child here and there it leads to bullying, verbal and physical.
6 out of 10 have opposite sex parents
3 out of 10 have a single parent
1 out of 10 has same sex parents
That in itself is a disaster waiting to happen
Financially in the future, the bullied child leaves school because they cannot take the bullying any more, on the streets, mix with the wrong groups, get into alcohol and drugs early and become a lout, etc
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If that were a reasonable piece of logic then all children who are bullied would end up with your melodramatically foretold future. But they don`t, so I`m not sure that this is a valid argument here.
I`ll agree that there is the potential for this situation to result in bullying, but how much of that bullying is the result of prejudice instilled by the parents? By treating homosexual couples differently you only reinforce prejudices. You are essentially arguing that it is too difficult to confront those prejudices so we may as well reinforce them. If the school took a pro-active and thorough approach to bullying then the issue becomes moot. If you can tackle the problem via two different routes, then surely it is better the tackle the problem of bullying itself rather than the arbitrary differences that "inspire" someone to bully.