Wow.
Originally Posted by
le Pingouin
Who is saying the both natural parents won't be known to the child and be involved in raising them?
Both parents, iving in the home, every day? You're really stretching things if you reckon that what you're proposing is a substitute for a married relationships between mum and dad.
Originally Posted by
le Pingouin
Children clearly don't have a right to being raised by both parents - we have divorce and parents moving overseas.
Thanks for making the point nicely. Children have no rights to their Mum and Dad. Their rights to know and be loved by their biological parents are subordinate to the various whims of adults.
We've already discussed how divorce and separation is a step away from the ideal structure of raising kids (as most research will show) but in some situations is the best of a bad situation. You've confirmed quite nicely here that you are quite happy to extend the concept of 'making the best of a bad situation' to simply endorse the 'bad situation' as the new baseline standard.
And you wonder why I'm anti SSM? This is a major part of it right here.