On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 8:14 AM, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote: > "Objectively a child that is raised by a same-sex couple, from the first > determinative years of its life, acquires a distorted perception of the > biological relationship between the sexes. A correct perception of this > relationship is an essential ingredient for its smooth psychosomatic and > social development." >
This is true of course: a child brought raised by two men is in historical terms quite abnormal and it is not at all clear how such an upbringing would affect a child's "psychosomatic and social development". The thing is though, that the same thing would be equally true of a child raised by a man and a woman. The small nuclear family is historically a weird and abnormal thing. Where is the multi-generational family unit? Where are the grandparents, and the uncles, aunts and cousins? Where are the other members in your extended kinship group? The interesting question is: when did the nuclear family become the cultural norm in the US? Is it a peculiarly capitalist institution that is destined to fade away when capitalism does? Conservative society basically says every person is allowed one other person with whom they can have an intimate relationship not mediated by the market (sort of..). There are signs that the younger generations are rebelling against this type of norm. Admittedly this is all self-indulgent speculation on my part. But I would be very interested in leaning about what Marxism has to say about the future of the nuclear family or more generally families and kinship groups in a socialist society. -raghu.
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