Black and white, gay and straight, child-ridden and child-free: there's a little of everything, and everyone seems to feel at home.
Gay or straight, children don't need to see that sort of behavior.
After all, there is no risk of pregnancy (which was my main terror, rightly or wrongly, with my straight children) and we had covered all the bases on sexually transmitted infections, at least in theory.
As he weighs how to vote, Mr. Alesi, 63, a Republican from suburban Rochester and the longtime owner of a commercial laundry company, has spoken with proud parents who want their gay children to have the same rights as their straight children.
Studies, however, set the record straight: children who think they're special grow up to be adults who expect success — and the money and fame it brings — to come quickly and easily, who take offense at the slightest affront to their presumed superiority, who routinely look to be the exception to the rule.
Do you think a similar problem exists with straight children being bullied by gay children?
But here's the thing: straight children have nothing to announce.
Gay children, like straight children, crave to know that they are not disposable based on the decisions they make.
Another set of prospective parents, who are not themselves prejudiced, might none-the-less prefer heterosexual progeny because they believe that straight children face fewer social barriers, and less discrimination, than gay children.
One Mormon mother of both gay and straight children wrote to me describing the policy as "a very harsh, almost Old Testament type sacrificing of innocent children over what is perceived to be the sinful lifestyle of their parents".
After the instructor moved on to the next pair, the older man, known as Mr. G., whispered to his young partner: "Whenever you speak, stand up straight," the child's round face looking up at him.
