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Would you want your children to be gay? As a straight person, given the choice I would want my children to be straight, so they could have biological children w
by pseudo0 1y ago
Would you want your children to be gay? As a straight person, given the choice I would want my children to be straight, so they could have biological children with their partner and a dating pool of ~48% of the population rather than ~2%. Those are pretty clear objective advantages, even putting aside the issue of societal acceptance.
It's completely understandable to have an attachment to one's own identity, but at a certain point trying to impose that identity on one's children becomes ethically questionable. A good example is the deaf community - would it be appropriate for a deaf couple to withhold medical treatment from their child that would allow them to hear? I would argue no, but some people disagree.
- SarahC_ 1y agoThey could always foster some gay kids.... obviously being gay they won't be having gay kids via sex.
- pseudo0 1y agoIt's a hypothetical question... But plenty of gay people have children through surrogacy, or they adopt prior to determining the child's sexuality.
- b3lvedere 1y ago"Would you want your children to be gay?" It may be a corny answer, but i just would like to have them have a happy healthy life. So, i don't really mind or care if they'd be gay or not.
- jjj123 1y agoI wouldn’t want to impose that on my children either way. I’d prefer to let nature decide. There’s no way in hell I’d want to select for straightness in my children. That is frankly insulting to me to even suggest.