Why I think children deserve a Mom and a Dad

I have been noticing something lately about my children that made me think about the gay marriage controversy, especially after my sister and I got into a little conversation about it today.  My daughter is only three and a half and my son, eighteen months but I have been amazed as a mother how set they seem in bonding in a special way to the parent of the opposite sex and I am talking at a very young age, as early as six months or so.  This has to be for a reason, right?  I mean, don't they say that's how we figure out how to have healthy attractions and relationships with the opposite sex?

I will say up front that I agree with the Catholic Church's teachings on the immorality of homosexual behavior but that's not what I want to discuss. Although, I will say the natural moral law plays a huge part in that teaching and that is what I want to discuss. I would love to hear other parents' experience as well. I know as far back as I can remember having a very special closeness to my father that just seemed very instinctual, like it came from a certain complementarity inherent in our genders. Now, having a son I am blown away by the same experience with him. We have an intensely affectionate bond that I simply don't have with my daughter, even though I love her just as much.

I think we need to be careful that we don't forget that men and women were created to complement each other, even though in a sinful world that doesn't always happen.  But, when we are in a marriage where our womanhood and manhood are respected and lived out properly our children naturally have their needs met and come to have a healthy understanding of their own sexuality and the special roles women and men play.

Obviously, cohabitation and divorce are also grave injustices against children and I certainly see that as well.  I know many of you will want to comment and I would love to hear your thoughts on the matter.  I know this is a controversial issue for my first post, but oh well, these are the things that I think about and thus, blog about!

Disclaimer: The below photo was used primarily for aesthetic reasons.  I do not have a particular fondness for John F. Kennedy and did not mean to imply that I did by using the photo.  Anybody who knows me knows that I have a soft spot for the 1950's and 1960's eras!