> From: "amy and her computer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: to star > > "nothing i say has anything to do with how i personally feel, i > just think > that it would be really hard for a kid to go through and the > other kids wouldn't necessarily understand it." as my screwed up dad likes to say: "there you go thinking again". who gives a fuck about what other kids understand? i don't know what it feels like to be raised in a single parent or gay family, but i would choose either if it meant being loved and cared for instead of screwed over by my straight dad who abused drugs and stuck around and did not work or contribute to the marriage/family in anyway, leaving my mom to work her ass off, raise my brother and i into the decent human beings we are, no thanks to him. and my mom tells me when i was 20 "i didn't leave him because i didn't want you to have a broken home". well, ya know what? my home was "broken" by the fact that i lived in fear of verbal and physical abuse by my dad, and my mom did nothing to get us all out of that situation. hows that for something other kids don't understand? do you think my friends understood why we were evicted so many times when my mom couldn't pay the rent? why my dad didn't have a job? why i never invited them over to my house? i'd take a single mom or gay parents any day over this, as long as i was loved and cares for and my developmental needs were taken into account over an adults addiction. ps. sorry i had to bring up all my shit, but i think Amy needs to see that straight marriages/families are not necessarily any better than any other kind. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com/