Letters: Sole custody, LGBT issues

Published: Tuesday, Jan. 1 2013 12:00 a.m. MST

One area of focus ought to be modifying notions connected with the idea of sole custody, which has recently resulted in a child spending seven-eighths of the year with one parent.

JEFFREY D ALLRED, DNEWS

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Summary

In her book "Mothers and Sons," Carol Klein says that a sole-custody mom can predispose a daughter toward fearing "dangerous closeness" with men. Quoting Romain Gary, Klein describes how a sole-custody mom can predispose a son toward avoiding a "dangerous closeness" with a woman. If his mother had a husband or lover, he would not spend his days "dying of thirst, beside so many fountains."

Today, social commentators and churches worry about the increase in homosexuality and the numbers of homosexual youth who end up homeless or committing suicide. One area of focus ought to be modifying notions connected with the idea of sole custody, which has recently resulted in a child spending seven-eighths of the year with one parent.

Louise Silver

Logan

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Truthseeker

SLO, CA

.???
What a strange letter.

Who is Carol Klein? When was her book published? (1980s)

Who is Roman Gary?

What qualifications do these people have? Why should we care about what they have to say?

9:31 a.m. Jan. 1, 2013
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Hutterite

American Fork, UT

Social commentators and churches worry about what keeps the cashflow coming in. Don't sweat about the idea of gay people somehow created by single moms who ultimately commit suicide. Worry about the gay people born that way, as they all are, who More..

1:37 a.m. Jan. 1, 2013
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Dektol

Powell, OH

A bunch of baloney. Polygamous ancestors seldom saw the husband and their kids seem to have turned out OK. Two parents in the home is nice but not necessary.

7:54 a.m. Jan. 1, 2013
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