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- From: krueger@galileo.physics.arizona.edu (Ted Krueger)
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- Subject: Re: Alternative Families
- Message-ID: <1992Dec19.222818.18742@galileo.physics.arizona.edu>
- Date: 19 Dec 92 22:28:18 GMT
- References: <1992Dec17.160646.20839@Arco.COM> <17DEC199211424690@zeus.tamu.edu>
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- In article <17DEC199211424690@zeus.tamu.edu> rlc1028@zeus.tamu.edu writes:
- >In article <1992Dec17.160646.20839@Arco.COM>, dprjdg@inetg1.ARCO.COM (John Grasham) writes...
- >
- >|It is important to portray families based on sexual practices because the
- >|sexual activities of the parents matter to the children. It matters a
- >|great deal to them.
- >
- > I have not found young children to be aware of sexual practises between
- >their parents or anyone, with the exception of kissing, perhaps. They
- >know mommy and daddy sleep together, but usually no more than that.
-
- Do you have any children? I have a 10-year-old and a 5-year-old, and there
- is not really any way we can keep our sexual practices out of their attention.
- Without getting into any personal practices here, I would say that IMO, any
- couple who believes that their children are unaware that activities beyond
- kissing are going on, either is naive or very discrete. Children, at least
- mine, are well aware that other activies occur "beyond the locked door."
- >
- >|Any child that lives in a family with two parents of the same sex, will be
- >|well aware of the difference between his/her family and any other.
- >
- > Yes, at some point.
-
- And I argue that it is much younger than you think.
-
- >
- Ted
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- --
- So the Maples formed a union, and demanded equal rights, "The Oaks are just
- too greedy. We will make them give us light!" Now there's no more Oak
- oppression, for they passed a noble law. And the trees are all kept equal,
- by hatchet, axe and saw. - Rush, The Trees
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