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Thank you for this. I am so grateful for your work!

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If Erica's work makes us mad because we can't all be home with our kids (or don't want to), your work makes me mad because I can't have support of the village I need and the shared parenting dynamics I've evolved for!

I'm not sure what the study was measuring in terms of outcomes, but I cannot believe that a child 'of' two gay men does not miss out on something essential. The bond with his mother. He is separated from his mother at birth, and as we know from some surrogate children who are now speaking out about this practice, it leaves a life-long abandonment wound, regardless of how devoted at parenting the gay couple are. I see this in my work on a postnatal ward.

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