On the December 13 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, Bill O'Reilly dismissed scientific research on same-sex parenting to assert that "[n]ature dictates that a dad and a mom is the optimum" form of child-rearing. O'Reilly asked "why," if children suffer no psychosocial deficit from being raised by same-sex parents, "wouldn't nature then make it that anybody could get pregnant by eating a cupcake?"
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O'Reilly: Why Can't People Get Impregnated by Cupcakes?
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O'Reilly: Why Can't People Get Impregnated by Cupcakes?
"We could have done something important Max. We could have fought child abuse or Republicans!" --Oona Hart (played by Victoria Foyt), in the 1995 movie "Last Summer in the Hamptons."
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O'R's lack of knowledge of history and other societies would be astounding if it weren't so common in America. Before the agrarian society invented male ownership of spouse and offspring, children were always raised by same sex groups. The women's groups raised both genders of children until about age 10 or whenever a little boy performed some significant act that indicated he was ready to move over to the men's group. Women taught finding food and making clothing and shelter to both preteen genders, and first aid and child bearing to the older girls. Men taught hunting, tracking, and fighting to the older boys. Too bad we don't still have some variation of this today.
Barbara Fitzpatrick