PHIL 200 Chapter Notes -Hate Speech, Longitudinal Study, Artificial Insemination
12 Jun 2018
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Psychologists constantly warn of the difficulties besetting children of divorce, or those raised
without fathers.
The crime rate among illegitimate males is many times that of males born in wedlock; sons of
divorce entering adolescence are especially prone to academic difficulties, and daughters of divorce
are prone to promiscuity by the end of it.17 It seems obvious that children raised by homosexuals
are much more likely to be troubled than children raised by heterosexuals.
In addition to lacking a normal emotional matrix and a masculine figure, adoptees of homosexuals
face the ridicule of their normally raised peers.
Children notice the deviant, although liberationists of the Koppelman school would no doubt take
this as a reason to ban teasing as "Hate speech" and have the state teach children the value of
homosexual parenthood.
One should view with skepticism any claim that rearing by homosexuals is harmless, since the
phenomenon is too rare for adequate samples to exist, too new for longitudinal studies, and the
conclusion too exquisitely politically correct for its propagation to be trusted.
The topic of adoption by homosexuals naturally leads to the larger issue of homosexual marriage.
Speaking generally, the institution of marriage confers certain rights on the partners involved; the
question is which of these legal rights homosexuals now lack and which of those they should have.
The principle ... that the state may act only to prevent harm is universally understood to apply only
to adults.
The most familiar reason for letting the state intercede on children's behalf in cases such as this is
that children are not fully rational.
Since parents harm a baby by exposing it to a risky world, others may insist they take affirmative
steps to guard it against those risks.
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