What makes a family? Laura, her partner Lisa, and their 8-year-old daughter Mya are proof that you can have a family without a mom AND a dad -- in fact, the only essential ingredient in making a family is love. Seems obvious, right? Not to everybody, unfortunately. There are still plenty of people who look at Laura, Lisa and Mya as more of a curiousity than a family. Comparisons are made, says Lisa, to what people call "traditional" families. But she doesn't think her family isn't like or unlike traditional families ...
"Our family is two people who are devoted to each other, who respect each other, who love each other ... who brought a child into the world and both people give 100% to that child," she says.
Not only does that sound like a family, that sounds like an amazing family. Every child should be as lucky as Mya!
Do you know any families like Mya, Laura and Lisa?
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They were heartwarming, sweet and their child is happy and appears well adjusted. I wish them well and I wish them equality.
Tennessee you simply cannot say that you are not a hateful bigot then say something hateful and bigoted. You completely contradicted yourself.
Every family is different and this family is just that. A family who loves eachother.
And Tennessee, I'm not a lesbian but my sons father isn't in the picture. And he isn't lacking in any way from that. He is a happy, thriving little boy. Do you even have children? I'd almost bet no. And probably no experience with child psychology either. There have been studies done. And so long as the one parent the child has isn't abusive or otherwise unfit, there is no effect on the child not having a father figure.
In answer to the question, I DO know families like this. And they have kind, well-behaved, well-adjusted kids. One mom even headed up our school's PTO......
i have a best friend of 14 yrs she is the best friend i could ever ask for and it just happens that she is in a same sex relationship with a woman who is very sweet and they are very happy together and in about a yr they are going to have a baby and they are also foster parents and i could be happier for them its thier choice thier lives and no one has the right to tell them they are wrong
i was raised in a 2 mom family with my little bro! my dad killed himself when i was almost 4 and my bro 2 he killed himself in our family home when my mom left, they fought and and dad broke things it was a bad life! he shot him self with my brother and i alone in the house, thank god we didnt die there with him! but after my dads death my mom met my step mom who raised us and loved us! and to add i didnt need a dad i wanted mine around but it didnt happen that way now i graduated college at 21 and have a perfect family and my little bro serves our country! not bad kids if my dad was still around i would of been different!