True story here. My daughter is currently 8 years old. Recounting events in chronological order in her short life thus far:
1) She wanted to marry daddy.
2) She wanted to marry her then best friend Neely (girl).
3) She claimed Trevor (boy) was going to marry her NUMEROUS of times.
Currently, she now cringes every time she sees affection such as two people kissing on television whether it's live action or animated. Let me be clear that these are NOT phases she was going through. She was just expressing herself as a developing kid. In regards to relationships, she's seen straight, gay and lesbian relationships on screen. We once had a lesbian couple that lived across from us with a daughter in which we always gotten along width. In a nutshell, I'm teaching her that not everyone is going to agree on everything, and you live your life as the best person you can while appreciating others as you want to be appreciated. And if others cannot look past what they don't agree with, that's their problem, not hers.
With all that said, Charlize Theron is a NUT. I wouldn't call her actions (or lack there of) child abuse, but I would say that it's idiocy at best and parental neglect at worst (which that is arguably child abuse). Even thought there are some men who are more feminine and some women more masculine, we have to accept the scientific biological fact that men and women are inherently different due to hormonal factors produced by organs that are specifically in men and women. And then there's DNA. Women are women and men are men. But how you express your sexuality is all your doing. To borrow a cliche "Kids will say the darned things." But Charlize's son is a boy. There is no room for argument, and no need for justification. Now, if he prefers to play Barbie over Hot Wheels, that's a different scenario. As a parent, you teach your children what's fact and what's opinion. And then you allow your child a certain extent of moderated freedom to develop and mature that doesn't cross the line of chaos. Then you have to acknowledge that this will vary from household to household. But for a parent to allow a child to determine his or her sex is undermining the authority of a parent and sets up a precedence of poor parental judgment as the child continues to voice and make more decisions as he or she develops.
Last edited by LivingMetal - on 26 April 2019
