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To think life is unfair - regarding natent sexuality?

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PrincessOlga · 03/10/2024 11:09

I have read horror stories of feckless fathers mistreating their babies (and worse, I don't want to even think about these stories, they make me physically ill). I also have an acquaintance who has a daughter who has, unfortunately, just become pregnant with her useless boyfriend (who tried to get her on drugs, is violent to her, etc.).

I could not help thinking why it is that the feckless men seem to "breed like rabbits" (for want of a better phrase) - while I also know a guy who is homosexual, who loves children and is kind, hard-working and gentle, yet as he once explained to me, he is "wired up" so that he just cannot reproduce. I suggested adopting to him, because he is great with kids, but he feels strongly that a child should have a male and female parent. He has lived with women in shared flats and says he prefers female company, yet he is like a computer with hardware that has just not been "programmed" like the majority.

This is just one example I know, and there is probably some bigger "reason" in nature why it is so... but it just seems wrong to me and that it should be the other way around!

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Getitwright · 03/10/2024 11:30

You do get “feckless” women as well, those who cannot see a train wreck of a relationship on the horizon despite all the signs being so obvious to others. Your friend’s daughter for example? Lots of gay couples manage to have loving families, albeit not in the same biological way. Human beings are all wired differently, you just have to accept it.

TheFreaksShallInheritTheEarth · 03/10/2024 11:23

Not all heterosexual men are "feckless"; and not all homosexual men would be wonderful parents.

It's a shame that some people can't have children when they'd like to, whatever the reason and whatever their sexuality.

Sugarplummama · 03/10/2024 11:21

Of course it’s unfair, it’s the way life is. It can be cruel sometimes. Why did I lose much wanted pregnancies when there are woman on drugs who are crap mothers that pop one out after the other.

There isn’t much you can do about it though, it’s hard not to be angry at the world. But your friend has to focus on his life rather than how crap the world is.

InformerYaNoSayDaddyMeSnowMeIGoBlameALickyBoom · 03/10/2024 11:18

I'm not really sure what you're trying to say?

Homosexual people should be able to have kids and heterosexual people should struggle?

If it were that way round then you would find plenty of gay people being feckless and abusive too. It's not like that because they have to go through such a difficult process to have kids that it will weed out all those who don't really care.

It's hard to see a friend who wants kids and is unable to have them though.