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Why does having the opinion that the best environment for a child to grow up in is one with a loving male and female parent mean that you must be against all other scenarios? I’m not against single parent families or same sex families. Your post comes across as bigoted - i.e. as intolerant...

There is plenty of evidence to show the benefits to children of both male and female role models in a family. I quoted earlier the experiences of children with either a single parent or same sex parents who suffered bullying from their peers. What has any of that to do with the sexuality, or...

I really don’t see what sexuality has to do with the subject at all - I’ve only ever mentioned gender. I have nothing at all against any individual, no matter what relationship they may or may not be in, fostering, adopting or conceiving children based on their gender. I do believe though that...

My opinion as well and not really flawed at all. Comparing like with like as regards parental abilities and attributes I believe that children benefit more, (or if you like suffer less), from being brought up by a man and a woman. If you want to put every individual through an assessment...

That’s the first opinion page by Littlejohn I’ve read in years and surprisingly I agreed with much of which he wrote! My only criticism of the article is the lingering feeling I have that had the subject been a mixed gender couple who were paying a surrogate mother to bear a child for them...

The actual situation is the other way round, there are more children awaiting adoption than there are potential adopters - so what would you do if a same sex couple offered to adopt?

No but the girlfriend/boyfriend often is.

Is someone who believes that the ideal is for a child to be brought up by two parents of different genders homophobic? I don’t see what the sexuality of the parents has to do with it.

I am glad that you have not witnessed any bullying but to say it doesn’t occur is just burying your head in the sand. https://www.stonewall.org.uk/sites/default/files/including_different_families_lo.pdf Children from different families can also experience direct bullying. One in ten teachers...

This is where my concerns lie - it is not from the parents’, (whatever the gender), viewpoint but from the child’s. Children are cruel and pick on anything that is different about one of their peers - be that red hair, stutter, number of or gender of the parents. Any adult who ‘abuses’ a child...