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GAY PARENTHOOD AND THE END OF PATERNYAS WE KNEW IT
19 | Durg all the speculatn that Parenthood‘s Drew might be gay, did you ever, even for a send, thk Haddie would turn out to be the show’s (sorely lackg) gay character?! Bee homosexuals are rarely monogamo, often havg as many as three hundred or more partners a lifetime — some studi say is typilly more than one thoand — children those polyamoro suatns are ught a perpetual g and gog. Gay fathers were once as unthkable as they were visible.
Was by nvcg policians and the public to regard risg rat of fatherlsns as a natnal emergency, 1 growg numbers of gay men were embracg fatherhood. Examg the experienc of gay men who have openly pursued parenthood agast the odds n help to unrstand forc that unrlie the cle of paterny as we knew . Contrary to the fears of many the marriage promotn movement, however, gay parentg is not a new symptom of the mise of fatherhood, but of s creative, if ntroversial, reventn.
When I paid close attentn to gay men’s parentg sir, efforts, challeng, and achievements, I unearthed ccial featur of ntemporary paterny and parenthood more generally. Gay men nont the featur of postmorn parenthood a magnified mo.