“Dad” has been removed from a taxpayer-funded baby guide after a single complaint that same-sex couples were being excluded.
The Scottish NHS guide, called Ready Steady Baby, now features the word “partner” instead of “Dad”.
Critics said the health service should not be wasting money on such a change.
The pregnancy and parenthood guide, which is 220 pages long, has been given to parents for the last 14 years.
But following one complaint that the book was “not inclusive of people in same-sex relationships”, the NHS in Scotland replaced all references to “Dad”.
Norman Wells, Director of the Family Education Trust, said: “The NHS should not be squandering tax payers’ money to advance the cause of a minority interest group.”
He continued: “No matter how much effort is made to present positive images of families headed by same-sex couples, the fact remains it takes a man and a woman to create a child.”
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OK men; when the next war comes around we sit it out and let the perverts and women fight for their damn self.
REK, I agree.
No men on the cover of the guide either.
What about the same-sex couples who use a surrogate mother? They should get rid of the term "mom," too. They should also add the word "adopted" or "adoptive" when referring to children/pets of same-sex couples, to distinguish from the real parents.
Behold the Brave New World......
Better start fighting, Britain, because your children are going to be indoctrinated into this nightmare world where even the doctors are prevented by law from pointing out what a what a Dad is.
Stand up and fight.
instead of deleting the word "Dad:" from their guide, why not just add the word "partners"? Oh wait, the term "Dad" offends Pete / 14th Admendment & gay couples. Silly me.
When are they going to attack Father's Day?
That's not inclusive, either. And it reminds lesbian couples that the children in their possession actually have a father. And it makes children ask those uncomfortable questions about their fathers. And it forces those poor lesbian couples to make up more lies.
No doubt about it, Father's Day has to go.
@Barb Chamberlan
That has already happened.
" And it makes children ask those uncomfortable questions about their fathers."
So what did Maggie's first child do in fathers day? Peter Gallagher certainly doesn't have his fathers last name? Please apply your simple, insensitive drivel even now, your leader is about as untraditional as any gay couple. What's her Hindu husbands name again and why don't we see him and the family like Brian?
Pete.
You need to go now.
You have no ideas, no arguments, no insights, no understanding.
You have only your Stalinism.
Moderator: Please ban this fellow. His contribution here consists entirely in personal attacks and not a whit in the examination of ideas.
I'll tell you what Maggie's child didn't do on father's day: He/she didn't ask, "Are either of you 2 guys my real dad?" Or, "Did either of you create me with my dad?" Or, where the hell did I come from anyway? Or, am I gonna end up homosexual like you two?
What kind of a civilization allows a 2-3% minority group to impose its views on the rest of us.
John:
To the extent that a civilization is prepared to surrender marriage, gender itself, and the formation of the conscience of their children to a tiny minority of fanatics determined to impose their sexual disorientation upon our species' basic procreative and child-nurturing unit....
That kind of civilization is a contemptible one, which has lost its moral fitness to survive.
Glad to hear a voice of reason from Director Wells.
Society is going to get tired of bending over backwards to please same-sex couples, and participating in their denial of reality.
@Barb, great post.
You do realize, don't you, that the word "partner" INCLUDES dad? And mom?
I mean, you can't really be that thick that you don't GET that, right?
The GLBT crowd intentionally tampered with Father's Day years ago when they put Gay Pride Day on the same day.
They will never get the word DAD out of my family's vocabulary.... HE is held up as the model to all the boys as to how they are to be when they grow up.. I can't even imagine the confusion of the little boys raised by two lesbians or little girls raised by two gay men.... how do they learn their gender role or is that the point... the little girls in our family learn how the men they meet or marry should treat them... DAD is the guy they look up to... how can kids learn of the affection between a man and a woman when being raised by two women or two men...this is ridiculous...
Sadly, this is what I foresee and it is only the "tip of the iceberg". This is what I mean when I stated folks are not looking at the long-term & future effects of the SSM movement. Only seeing the "now", the popularity, money gain & not the ethical & worldly destruction coming. It will be a true "mess" if allowed to keep happening, not only for the children, but for society. Hospitals, churches, restrooms, gyms, dressing rooms, proms, schools, you name it, are going to have to suffer this unecessary headache & expense.
Rick - you're right. Pete shouldn't be contributing here - I've seen him write garbage on other posts. Go back to your SS Gestapo basecamp, Pete.
Honestly, Mom and Dad matter. Any kid raised by SS parents is going to feel slighted, and probably depressed. There is no way they wouldn't feel uncomfortable, unless they were home schooled and never watched TV and never left the house. There is a girl in my workplace who is "married" to another girl that is pregnant (NY). I feel bad for that future kid because where is "the fun with dad"? If the child is a boy, where is he going to have "guy talk"? Is he going to have to go outside his own family to find another guy to talk to and put his trust into? Oh buy wait...gender doesn't matter anymore...so I guess he can talk to both of his "moms" since they both made him. SS couples are selfishly slighting their children for their own sexual desires. No matter how you explain it, you know in your heart that it is wrong.
As for this post - shame on you, UK. This is just stupid. Do you see all of us complaining over here, yet not one of our voices are making changes? You reprinted a 220 page manual because of one complaint? Maybe in that reprint you should increase the diversity on your cover.
Homosexuality is abnormal.
Homosexuality is immoral.
Homosexuality is sin.
It is outragious that one person puts in a complaint, what about offending the men, I am a Dad and if this happens here, who ever did it, I will e-mail them, send letters call them untill they give up, because I won't give up. Dad's are being put on the side and it is time for the dad's to wake up and defend the family. This country is being taken over by homosexual activists and it is the activists that seek to destroy this country.
Sam raises some great points about dads. Where does a boy raised by lesbians learn about how to establish and nurture a relationship with a woman? And in these days of tolerance of homosexuality, isn't the male child who has no at-home basis for establishing a heterosexual relationship more likely to be susceptible and agreeable to sexual experimentation with older boys who have already adopted the homosexual label? Of course they are; and it is those very encounters - often rape-like - that we hear of time and again that psychologically damage and lead boys to adopt the homosexual label.
Robert:
Welcome to the fight.
NOM is a winning political organization and it gets stronger every time a citizen such as yourself sees pseudo-marriage for what it really is, and stands up to fight it.
The devil is winning the battle friends unless we take an agressive stance and say "we are putting a stop to this perversion".
Yet another example of the war on men and masculinity.