The lesbian in the article (I wish I didn't have to refer to her as "The Lesbian", but the article didn't mention her name, sadly) strongly believes that she and her female partner will be able to provide a warm, loving environment for their children, even though they are not the traditional male-female parents that a family is stereotypically thought to possess. She feels that the gender of the people who take on the role of "parents" does not matter, and what did matter is that the children are showered with love, support and "an interest in their well-being".
Personally, I agree with this belief of hers, that children simply need an adult to act as their "parent", to love and care for them, regardless of whether that adult is heterosexual or homosexual. What did it matter if their parent has a less-than-conventional sexual orientation? Perhaps it is because of society's fear that this homosexual parent would influence the child he/she is taking care of. However, I wonder who is better for the child: a heterosexual parent who drops off his/her child to school, and then picks them up only to leave them with a childminder or the grandparents afterwards; or, a homosexual parent who just took time off to return home early from work and have dinner with that child, and who find time to take the child to the playground for fun.
The Lesbian also touches on the "redefinition of the concept of family". An example she uses is the Jolie-Pitt family whereby celebrities Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt adopted children of different ehtnic and nationalities into their family; both also have a child between them although they are not married. Although having a child out of wedlock is still not proper decorum in my opinion, I nonetheless applaud the idea of people welcoming children from tragic backgrounds itnot heir homes, and forming a warm and loving "family" through this. Family should not be solely reserved for blood ties or the narrow-minded view of a group consisting of a male father, a female mother & their children. Like the Lesbian, I think that family should and has been expanded to include those who welcome others into their lives, and give them support and nurture them into good citizens of the world.
This will be the official journal for GP, as requested by Mdm Grace Seow.
I find her to be very interesting as she asked us all to introduced ourselves with the unique addition of voicing out what our favourite word was. At that time, my favourite word was Sanguine, but it may change in the near future. ;D