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I could see lesbian parenting becoming more common with greater social acceptance. Single or cohabiting though? As a recent parent, I doubt it. Raising child
by nostrademons 7y ago
I could see lesbian parenting becoming more common with greater social acceptance.
Single or cohabiting though? As a recent parent, I doubt it. Raising children remains extremely challenging, and significantly easier if you have a committed partner for it. There's no way my wife would be able to go on, say, a 10-day business trip to Laos or a 3-day industry conference if I weren't holding down the fort at home, or for that matter able to get to the gym tonight if I weren't picking our son up from daycare, taking him to gymnastics and cooking dinner for him.
How a couple chooses to split up the labor in their relationship is their business, but the fact that there's more than enough labor for a couple isn't going to change regardless of technology.
- hinkley 7y agoI think GP is talking about a James Holden or an It Takes A Village Scenario. Where one child or group of children has a larger pool of guardians looking out for them. Doesn’t even have to be that exotic. My aunt’s neighborhood took it in turns to take all the kids one day a week, so the other parents had a few days for their own stuff and appointments.