Who's your daddy? And does it really matter in the end?
Who's your daddy? And does it really matter in the end?: "Such giddy rearrangements of the traditional family pieces is a terrific
and good thing, overall, despite (or perhaps exactly because of) how much
consternation and pain such reconfiguration induces in the vicious religious
right. Because the fact is, by almost any measure, the traditional, man-woman,
Christian family configuration has been an abject failure, an utter
embarrassment to time and culture and the art of favorable statistics. Oh yes
it has.
Show me a single scientific experiment where fully 50 percent of the
results turn out negative and induce collapse and emotional breakdown and
childhood therapy and Xanax and alcoholism and screaming, and I'll show you a
scientist who will quickly scrap the whole thing and start all over. Which is
not to say it's not one hell of a lot of wicked fun to try anyway, should you
be wired that way. You just gotta know your odds.
But then it appears the quirky alt-family options aren't exactly gilded
slabs of congenial bliss, either. Seems a funny thing happened on the way to
the alternative family: People still have issues. People still have just a
tremendous number of hang-ups and emotional dramas regarding family and babies
and who the hell gets to shape and mold and influence the consciousness of
another human life. Go figure."
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