Let us say at the very beginning that we do not want to disrespect a single mother or father in any way. Many of them are really brave Moms and caring Dads. We personally know such single parents and we admire them for how much they struggle trying to be the best parent they could. We just think that this is a very sad phenomenon. Also, this is a bad and alarming symptom that the American society started to accept it as something normal. With all the respect to the single parents, we have to say loud and firmly: IT IS NOT NORMAL! And even the most proud and independent single parent has to admit that many times she or he experienced a situation when a presence of the second parent would be helpful. It is not an easy task to raise a child or children being alone. Not only that everything is "on her or his shoulders", but also there is a lack of examples of behavior and attributes of the other sex the kid could learn from. And properly functioning human needs to contain elements of both the sexes. Also, being a boy, he needs to watch a man to be prepared to be a father himself in the future, and opposite - a girl by observing her mom learns how to be a future mother. In a way, a kid raised by a single parent is a disabled person, practically from the moment he was born. Besides, very often kids from such families become single parents themselves.

In our country, it was a shame to be a single mother. Especially in small villages it was something others did not accept - they could make a life of such a woman a real nightmare. Was it good? Well, at least it was making women think first about consequences. As a result, a single mother was a very rare phenomenon (excluding widows with kids).

Of course, we do not support stoning woman for becoming a single mom (as they still do in some countries) - every extreme is bad. We are kidding, but the situation is not funny at all. Because the opposite extreme - to take it as something natural, normal and unavoidable - is also a very bad approach. Of course, we do not vote for depriving poor single parents all their rights and privileges the government provided for them - they are absolutely entitled to the help since this situation already exists. But - we should do anything possible to reduce amount of such cases in the future. A family should play here a major role - parents telling their kids about responsibility and about the importance of a normally structured, full family. Again, parents cannot be alone in their attempts - it has to be a massive action, involving as many families as possible, schools, mass media. Television plays here a very important role, and producing programs that talk about the importance of a full family won't help too much if kids will see single parent in every second movie. We were shocked when we were reading with our kids - second or third graders - some of their schoolbooks, and many times there were only a child and a single mom in the story. As if it is a perfectly normal, natural situation.

But a "single parent" family model is nothing compared to the latest phenomenon that should alarm every rationally thinking person. We have a legalization of marriages within the same sex in mind, and a right to adopt children by such couples. To us, somebody's sexual orientation is this man's or woman's personal business, but only as long as it does not affect the others. In this case, it is horrifying to even think how badly it would influence the entire society. Couples consisting of two women or two men complain that they have right to enjoy a normal family life, to experience a pleasure and a joy of a parenthood, just like everybody else. The point is that it is not a normal family life, it is not and will never be a normal parenthood. These people simply want to satisfy their selfish need to be a parent and they try to place it under a very popular and delicate category of "personal freedom" and "personal rights". What right do they have to do that? Do they think about personal rights of the child that will be deprive a normal family, that will be hurt and deformed mentally before he even knows what harm somebody does to him? What kind of parents such abnormal relationships will produce (we have the kids raised in such a family as future parents in mind)? The abnormality will be going deeper and deeper, spreading all over the society, affecting it in a horrible way. It is insane, it is amoral, unethical and purely egoistic. And we should seriously think it over, think about all the consequences before it is too late. A sound society has to be built on sound principles, and to neglect these principles is like to let a hidden disease deceitfully deteriorate its body, its inner structure. Don't let it happen that some day we will discover that our society is a wrack eaten by cancer, and it will be already too late for any action.