Many, many years ago when I was twenty-three
I was married to a widow who was pretty as could be
This widow had a grown-up daughter who had hair of red
My father fell in love with her and soon they too were wed
This made my dad my son-in-law and really changed my life
For now my daughter was my mother, ’cause she was my father’s wife
And to complicate the matter, even though it brought me joy
I soon became the father of a bouncing baby boy
My little baby then became a brother-in-law to dad
And so became my uncle, though it made me very sad
For if he were my uncle, then that also made him brother
Of the widow’s grownup daughter, who was of course my step-mother
Father’s wife then had a son who kept them on the run
And he became my grandchild, for he was my daughter’s son
My wife is now my mother’s mother and it makes me blue
Because although she is my wife, she’s my grandmother too
Now if my wife is my grandmother, then I’m her grandchild
And every time I think of it, it nearly drives me wild
‘Cause now I have become the strangest ‘case you ever saw
As husband of my grandmother, I am my own grandpa
I’m my own grandpa, I’m my own grandpa
It sounds funny, I know but it really is so
I’m my own grandpa
The mother of a gay man has told how she gave birth to his baby after a surrogate pregnancy.
Anne-Marie Casson, 46, gave birth to a boy, Miles, who is now eight months old, after she became pregnant with a donor egg fertilised by the sperm of her son Kyle Casson.
He is understood to be the first single man to have a child through surrogacy in the UK, and the first to use his own mother as a surrogate.
The arrangement emerged after a High Court judge ruled that Mr Casson can now adopt the baby and become his legal father, even though he is also the infant’s brother in the eyes of the law.
Mrs Casson has now told the Daily Mail how she felt compelled to help her son have a baby, saying: “When he first came to me and his dad, I thought ‘I could do it’. Some people, when they did find out, said ‘urgh’, but they don’t understand.
“He is not biologically tied to me, other than he’s my grandson. I love being a parent and for Kyle to experience that, I would do that for him.”
I find this disheartening. In the article, and in many comments I’ve seen addressing this situation, no one ever addresses the rights of the child. This isn’t about a gay man being a parent either, though it forever closes off the possibility of the child to ever have a mother.
Any situation that deliberately deprives the child of a parent, either the father or mother, is not good. I recall an article written by a thoughtful man who happened to be gay who realized how much his child was missing having a mom.
I feel the same way about women who “haven’t found the perfect man” using a sperm donor to have a child alone.
Men and women are not fungible. A child having both mom and dad is going to have a close, emotional relationship with a person of their own sex as well as the opposite.
I do not want The State to interfere with people’s choices on parenthood unless a child is clearly in danger. However, pointing out the ethical and moral hazards of single or single-sex parenting is paramount.
Ah, the irony of Obama claiming Americans don’t like uncomfortable truths when his ideological brethren on the Left refuse to honestly state what happens with the destruction of family.
This is simply narcissism at its best. It’s not about rearing a child; it’s about acquiring an accessory to one’s life, because “I’ll look really cute with a stroller!”
Shermlaw: just so. Just exactly so.
Before you plan this kind of reproductive stunt, ask yourself if you’d want to be that kid, without assuming that the kid won’t know any different or overemphasizing social stigma.
Fatherless kids know that something important is missing; motherless kids know it; orphans in foster care know it, and the children of same-sex parents know it too. Worse than knowing it, they feel it, and what they feel is loss.
Narcissists, however, by definition cannot imagine being in someone else’s shoes. God help that kid.
I’m reminded of Edina Monsoon of Absolutely Fabulous finding out that her daughter Saffy is pregnant. She spent an entire episode freaking out that a stinky, loud, demanding kid would be living in her home, until she found out at the end of the episode that the father was African.
MIXED-RACE BABY! she exulted, because if Edina Monsoon knows anything, it’s the shallow pursuit of status symbols.
If your life is looking like an episode of AbFab, sweetie darling, you’re doing it wrong.
Angelina Jolie’s nostrils just flared, and she’s not entirely sure why.
a little baby what would’ve never existed is here on erf cause of these choices praise jesus
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>a little baby what would’ve never existed is here on erf cause of these choices praise jesus <
How long were you in? Most of us have been here for years.
Greetings:
Me, I’m going with POW.
>I just got out of prison.<
hi commie/moe stodge!!11!!
>problematic<
how much soros/putin pays?
>WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU PEOPLE?<
we be allan fuck you
Ok, friends, refresh my memory. Who do we know from West Chester, PA?
oh my, such words from an cowardly troll.
blessyourheart
They just can’t quit us.
Oh, shoot. Did I miss something special?
a little baby what would’ve never existed is here on erf cause of these choices praise jesus
His parents having decided a priori to make his life a living hell.
Know why I haven’t been artificially inseminated, ‘feets? Because the most important thing a mother can give her children is a good father, and until I can do that I have no buisness bringing my offspring into the world.
That’s my gift to the world.
For certain values of “special.”
“His parents having decided a priori to make his life a living hell.”
Statistics have their uses, they’re good for some things…presumptuous predictions like this isn’t one of’em however.
That said, I think it’s fair to say that this kid’s life is going to be harder than it might otherwise be.
Now this, I don’t buy. Since when did the BATFE give a damn about what the unwashed masses thought? I think some damn 1%er with juice decided to short that particular commodities market.
you’d be a good mom you could teach your kids about all the flowers
I personally don’t have much problem with this, other than that it creates a really odd social twist for the kid in question. Which is not to understate THAT aspect of it.
It’s not a direction that I think we as a species want to move in, but for right now it’s just the isolated outrage du jour.