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WAY OUT PARENTING: 5 SYMPTONS OF GAY UBER PARENT SYNDROME—AND THEIR DANGEROUS CONSEQUENCES

Submitted by Way Out Parent on Mon, 08/25/2008 - 7:36am.

Are you a Gay Uber Parent?

Virtually everyone approaches parenthood with a secret belief that they can somehow avoid all the mistakes other parents have made through time in memoriam. You, as gay a parent, are particularly vulnerable to this dangerous fallacy. Because your rights and qualifications to be parents have been challenged by the straight world, you may feel the need to send a defiant message to all of your detractors: Just watch. My child will be superior to yours in every conceivable way. And in a desperate attempt to fulfill your prophecy, you may impose on your child a series of unrealistic rules designed to make them perfect. You may be a Gay Uber Parent. Read the warning signs and the potential consequences.

WAY OUT PARENTING: WHAT IF BRITNEY SPEARS HAD BEEN A CHILD OF GAYS?

Submitted by Way Out Parent on Sat, 08/16/2008 - 6:18am.

Do you ever imagine how your life might have been different had you been born into different circumstances? Imagine for a moment that Britney Spears had not been born the daughter of Lynne and Jamie Spears. Instead, she’d been the child of two gay moms or dads who conceived her with the help of high-tech reproductive technologies rarely employed in rural Mississippi where vodka tonics and Budweisers on a Saturday night are more typical precursors to pregnancy.

Would Britney’s life trajectory have been any different? Would she have been a “better” person? Would she have learned to wear underwear? Would she have lost custody of her children? Who knows. There’s plenty of evidence that addictive, self-destructive personalities are born, not made. But it’s fun to conjecture, so let’s look at some Britney milestones and how they might have played out differently had she been a Child of Gays.

Way Out Parenting: 4 simple rules for enjoying a successful "date night" without the kids

Submitted by Way Out Parent on Sat, 08/09/2008 - 1:33pm.

Every parent experiences the mind-numbing exhaustion of raising children. It may be, however, that gay male parents succumb to the exhaustion more dramatically and often than straight or lesbians parents. Some researchers have theorized that over millennia of procreation, humans developed a Parenting Stamina Gene (PSG) that becomes activated in both men and women by the tidal wave of hormones released at puberty. These researchers speculate that in gay men the PSG fails to activate.

Way Out Parenting: The 6 Cardinal Sins of Straight People Writing a Reference for Gay Prospective Parent

Submitted by Way Out Parent on Fri, 08/01/2008 - 7:28am.

A critical element of your adoption or second parent adoption paperwork are letters of reference from people who presumably know you well and can attest to your outstanding character and fitness to be a parent. These letters can be important tools that sway social workers and pregnant women to consider you as suitable parents. And let’s be frank: you need letters from straight people.

Way Out Parenting: When should our children use public restrooms alone? Will they use toilet paper, and will they be safe?

Submitted by Way Out Parent on Sun, 07/06/2008 - 7:35am.

Gay fathers with a daughter and lesbians with a son face these questions sooner than heterosexual co-parents. Because you don’t represent both sexes, at some point you must allow your child to venture into a world where you have no access. What is it like in there? Will your child be safe? How can you prepare him or her? Below are questions you may have and some answers to put you at ease.

Way Out Parenting: The Supplementary Sex Education Course for Children of Gays, Ages 0-12+

Submitted by Way Out Parent on Sun, 06/29/2008 - 6:54am.

Every parent—gay, straight, or in between—struggles with how and when to teach their children the technical points of human growth and development. You are advised to lay the groundwork early. Use the scientific vocabulary of sex education before your children know what anything means. Fling words like penis, testicles, vagina, ovary, and uterus at your one-year-olds with reckless abandon. They won’t understand what you mean, and it gives you the opportunity to desensitive yourself to words you never imagined you’d have to use with someone so young.

BLOG: My life as a stay-at-home dad

Submitted by mikeandmichael on Sun, 06/15/2008 - 12:43am.

I have always known that one day I would be a dad. Looking back, my fantasy always included another husband; yet, I often wondered how I would make my dream a reality. My fantasy was usually abruptly halted by the reality that a woman was needed to make this dream come true. Little did I know that my dream would become my life.

My partner and I will celebrate nine years together in July. We plan to commemorate our life together by getting married. Wow...I'm getting married. How many gays and lesbians can actually say that? I digress.

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