Does Your Sexual Orientation Matter When Raising Your Child?

I read an article today that completely enraged me. Although, I do agree with the main idea of the article, I strongly disagree with the explanation. First of all, this article was about people needing to take a test before having children. In a way I feel that is a great idea. For the most part because many "parents" lack the common sense to raise a child. By common sense I mean, they let their children run wild without guidance and discipline. It seems to me that many parents loose interest in their children's everyday activities and do not try to shape their children into being responsible adults by teaching them morals, manners and respect for themselves as well as others.

The main point I got from the article I read was about drug using and or bisexuality. A point that was brought up in this other article was how traumatized a child would be if it had walked in on their parents with a third party having intimate relations. Well, as most of us can agree, we have all overheard our parents or walked in on them. As adults when we think about it, it grosses us out but were any of us traumatized? Not actually. Most parents do not try to flaunt their intimacy in front of their children, so how can it even be safe to assume a bisexual or homosexual will do other than that?

Sexual orientation should not be a factor when considering who is appropriate in raising a child. As long as the sexual preference of the adult is not pushed on the child. I am a firm believer in honesty with raising a child. I have a very good friend, her mother is a lesbian, and no she has not been traumatized by that. However, I do have some friends that were raised in a heterosexual household that are, well let's say less than happy with their childhood.

A child can be traumatized by many different things. Living in a home with a parent that is an alcoholic, drug user, has a terminal illness, and abusive, to name but a few. Does this only apply to one sexual preference? Absolutely not. For the growing trend that was mentioned about young mothers...