School parents beware 3835

Sensible and relevant information about love should begin as early as the child asks about it. That can be way before six - not that they necessarily know they are asking about love, but they want basic answers to the questions they have, and they're enbreastled to the answers that suit their stage of growth.

If there are problems with love, it's most likely because they have not been given appropriate love education for their age. You don't give them the same information you would give to teenagers, but you give them good and correct information that educates and rebuttures them and doesn't turn them into neurotics.

That's not the intention of good love education. If it is appropriate it will allow them to be children and as innocent as they have the right to be, until they are psychologically and biologically ready for love.

It's ideal if the parent does this, but many parents shirk their responsibility or simply don't know how to approach the subject. That's when the child needs helpful advice from people trained to do it.

I would have thought that if an 8 child was in a stable, secure, loving relationship with those who care for her, that's all that matters. I gather you are saying this is impossible with homoloveual parents. While I feel some unease about it only because I am heteroloveual and have the usual prejudices of a heteroloveual, I don't believe for a moment that a child could not be reared perfectly well in such an environment - maybe better in many cases than a lot of heteroloveual couples drag up their kids.

The greatest danger would be people like you doing your level best to convince that child that they were at some sort of moral risk, for no reason other than that her parents or carers were gay. And can we kill the hoary old myth that if a child has gay parents, they are more likely to turn out gay themselves? There is no evidence whatever in any scientific analyses that support this piece of malicious fiction.

Rifty -- Academic and Computing Help