The conception that lesbians and gay men may be parents is frequently perceived in today's society as impossible or immoral. Gay men and lesbians are often viewed as excluded from having children because sexual reproduction is related to men and women only. My approach to this uniquely controversial topic of gay parenting will be that of attempting to analyze the Pro side first. Gays and lesbians are human too and who is to say that they don't deserve equal rights in society. Society has to realize that the modern family has developed into many different forms in recent years in that the "nuclear family" is not necessarily the most common form anymore.
Then I will attempt to analyze the Con side which expresses the fact that two people
Concern usually revolves around the issue that the children will also grow up to become lesbian or gay themselves (Baker, 105).
In most cultures, children are raised to take on specific roles associated with their biological sex very early in life. Therefore, in most cases people maintain an identity of themselves in terms of gender (Blumenfeld and Raymond, 45). (This statement is expanded on in the Chapter of Socialization and gender roles in Looking at Gay and Lesbian Life).
Many also believe that children need parents of the opposite sex to find balance in their lives. Each heterosexual parent socializes their children differently and children need to view this difference for themselves.
An elaborate description of masculinity and fatherhood takes place in, "Fatherhood, Masculinity, and the Goodlife during Canada's baby boom, 1945-1965, Robert Rutherdale. This article depicts how the dad of the nuclear family "had secured his family's place in the consumer markets and recreational opportunities of a profoundly acquisitive period"(369). It depicts some activities which fathers endured with the son to ensure masculinity and machoness as the son matured into a man himself.

Children need to realize and witness how men and women deal with certain situations differently, they need to be informed of different situations that will occur to them