When Daily Mail columnist Norman Tebbit wrote last year, ‘A child’s life prospects are better if it grows up in a family with a father and a mother than if it lacks either of them,’ he was simply articulating what mainstream society has thought for years; that children suffer if they’re brought up by lesbian or gay parents. Tebbit, who served as a cabinet member in Margaret Thatcher’s government, is a long-standing opponent of the lesbian and gay community and supported the anti-gay Section 28.
Whether its the extreme ‘children need a mum and a dad’ school of thought, or the more tolerant ‘gay parents aren’t bad, but society is, so their children will suffer’ point-of-view, the assumption is that being brought up by queers is worse for kids than being brought up by heterosexuals.

Although we may think such notions are nonsense, we can often get very caught up in our own agendas about wanting children. The desire to make babies has always been a selfishly motivated act, as far as I’m concerned, whoever does it. There are plenty of children in the world, and no-one ever wants a child in order to make the world a better place. We want a mini-me for our own experience, fulfillment, etc.