There are women who want children, and there is an increasing number of gays who desire their own family.Is heterosexuality a universal "patent" on parenting?<

Although it is not quite common in the Czech Republic yet, at least abroad (to the west) gay/forest parenting becomes quite common things.Of course, the legislation of this or that state is also important, but in some countries lesbians and gay children can adopt without problems, but gays are also available.surrogate motherhood.This requires a certain capital, but it is also a way to give their genes to the next generation.Although not everywhere both partners are recognized as parents, at least one is a rightful father (after all, surrogative motherhood can be used in our country, although the law does not specify it, but does not prohibit it in any way).

However, given that the expectant father should pay at least all medical care to a surrogate mother (and specifically in the USA, a service even provided by specialized agencies), at least so far it is a possibility that most publicly known personalities.But this can also be acknowledged with gratitude, as the famous gay couples are in the center of the media interest and can show on their own example that even two men can provide children with a loving family background.After Neil Patrick Harris, Elton John, Ricky Martin, this is now and many others now the intention to become another famous gay, actor Russell Tovey.

A period of rapid changes in the name of human rights and freedoms

The British actor mentioned this already in 2019 that he wanted to start a family.Currently, however, in an interview with the British Guardian admitted that he is already finding out what opportunities he actually offers him."Substantial motherhood, adoption, all is available," he added, adding that he wanted to become his father before his fortieth birthday, which he will probably not be able to do (40 years this year), but his fatherhood is "absolutelyPlan '.

But he also did not forget to mention how much the last few decades have changed.Although he was already at the age of 18, which, in his words."I am part of a generation of Queer people who still have Article 28 in their blood," he summed up also.

Article 28 was a legal standard from Margaret Thatcher (adopted in 1988 and definitively abolished in 2003) set up against "homosexuality's support".As Tovey summarized the main message of this regulation, actually every Queer was to feel that he was a pervert and there is no place in society - and if he wants to succeed and be happy, he must not report to his orientation."I was lucky to the environment but many people have this law rooted in.But today they live in a world where adolescents already report to the world that they need to be pansexual.And that's just great, ”he sums up.In addition, it is also a world where not only everyone can be themselves, but at the same time lesbians and gays gradually opened the way to parenting.

Rainbow families as a natural development of society?

Of course, opponents of gay/forest coexistence, let alone parenting, are in the world (including the Czech Republic) countless.On the other hand, at least somewhere, this resistance can break through - and as the practice, lesbians and gays suggest to children can be great parents.According to time -lapse studies, not only the education of parents of the same sex does not harm children, but even has a positive effect on them - it is the children of rainbow families that are more receptive, empathetic, and even better study results.In fact, one could say that there is no only reasonable argument why lesbians and gay children could not raise (because the theory of sitting patterns has long been under the table, about absurd theses working with abuse not to mention).

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But while society is about preserving a "traditional family", she literally dies under her hands.Not only do heterosexual marriage today, of course, do not last their whole life, but many women actually do not want motherhood at all.In the US alone, the birth rate in the last decade has fallen by 2 % and at the time of the pandemic - despite the initial speculation about Baby boom - this number doubled.Although the same does not apply to the Czech Republic, according to data from the Czech Statistical Office, the number of free people is continuously increasing and married women and married men.This increases logically the number of children born outside marriage.And as the Summary Report of the CZSO states, although fertility is slightly increasing, the current value of 1.71 children per woman "in the long run does not ensure simple reproduction of the population.“For this, fertility would be at least 2.1 children per woman, a value that was last recorded in the Czech Republic in 1980.So Czech women postpone motherhood and reject many completely.According to demographers there are reasons obvious: economic and political uncertainty and also decreasing stigma concerning childless.Because most of the child's care still lies on the shoulders of women (and eg.In the Czech Republic, only a minimum of men starts on parental leave), it is no wonder that many of them prefer freedom, career and their interests over the establishment of the family, career and their interests.

Right to parenting: For each

It is possible to paradoxically that in the case of heterosexual orientation no one with the parental abilities of women and men is dealing with.If a "traditional biological job" is fulfilled, everything is fine.Regardless of age, facilities, competence.How a poor situation can actually be, then illustrates the bizarre probe into Czech families - the reality show Exchange of Wives, from which it would be possible to draw adepts for immediate intervention of the social worker.But as if there was still a slogan over us: a heterosexual family = the right family.Despite the fact that literally crowds of lesbians and gays could often take care of children a thousand times better (after all, many already prove it, even if the Czech authorities throw sticks under their feet and in their care from children's homes often endchildren who are not interested in “traditional couples”).

Of course, without a woman and a man, a child does not come to the world. Ovšem konkrétněsurrogate motherhood, které je mezi gayi čím dál populárnější, je spíše otázkou „trhu“, nikoliv naplněním „úlohy matky“.And women who are willing to “rent their uterus” are obviously in the world enough.Like women who simply do not want children and gays who, on the other hand, desire them. Ti jsou přitom odkázáni buď na adopci, nebo právě nasurrogate motherhood.Why shouldn't they be allowed?