Comments on: Cat Cora and Wife Each Pregnant With a Boy!

By: SZ

SZ — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:40:58 +0000

I love Cat and I think the idea is so sweet

By: Susan

Susan — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 05:42:42 +0000

Congrats on your wonderful blessings, as a sous chef and lesbian mother of two children, sleep is a precious commodity. I would also like to comment on the honesty of this couple,being open with the details of thier pregnancies is amazing. I’m impressed with the acceptance and tolerance of other posters and please keep up the postive responses in the face of ignorance and negativism.

By: Laura

Laura — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 15:24:01 +0000

I have to agree with automaticstop 85, brannon and Margaret on the school issue -

I went to school with a girl who lived with her gay mother and partner and while that would have been a much bigger deal 12 years ago than it is now, she wasn’t teased by the kids. A couple asked her questions (out of genuine curiousity) when her two mums showed up to parents’ evening, but she grew up no differently than the rest of us.

I can do nothing but applaud these ladies for taking on the challenge of being pregnant at the same time! Good luck to them and I hope their family will be very happy with the new additions

By: bambi

bambi — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 03:01:17 +0000

Congradulations ladies, best wishes and good luck.

By: mp

mp — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 22:13:52 +0000

Cat & Jennifer have a whole lot more energy than I do! I’m exhausted just THINKING about two babies three months apart, not to mention the older boys. I wish them all the best.

By: dennis

dennis — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 18:27:03 +0000

as a single father i think it’s great that their doing this. and i wish them the very best

By: Lisa

Lisa — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:27:49 +0000

Congrats! I’ve been waiting to find an ad about this type of senario. I congratulate both of them! Best wishes. Be happy & healthy.

By: Anamaste

Anamaste — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:39:01 +0000

While it’s a good thing that this topic has been opened up for discussion, I think all of us are being a little presumptuous. We have no idea what the Cora children’s lives will be like. Wait– stop– read it again. WE HAVE NO IDEA what their lives will be like. They may have a male role model, they may not. They may wish things were different, they may not. They may have 8 million nannies, they may not. They may look back on their childhood fondly, they may not.

The point is that we are entirely too fond, as a culture, of feeling that we know the best way for other people to live. We like to play armchair sociologist and predict future doom because people choose different paths than we would. Every family, and every situation, is different– no matter what your sexuality, income level, or religious beliefs.

As a bisexual woman engaged to another woman, and considering something much like what the Coras have chosen (although just one baby at a time, thank you!), I have long been very wary of conservative and religious people because I ran across a lot of them who felt completely justified in trying to make my life hell. It’s been very educational for me to try to overcome that prejudice– there are many people who don’t live the way I do that are caring, open, and wonderful.

All I’d ask for each of you is to consider the possibility that the people who you disagree with/disapprove of are not all monsters.

/soapbox

By: MiB

MiB — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:16:40 +0000

First of all; I wish Cat and Jennifer all the best in their pregnancies. I am sure they have though about male role models, it is important for every child to be surrounded by people of different genders, ages, colours, opinions, you name it!

Secondly, to those who took up bullying as a reason for bi- and homosexuals not to have children; I am in my early thirties, and know several people my age who have bi- and/or homosexual parents (in fact, I went to the same school as 5 of them). Omly one of them was ever teased, and that was because of her hair!

By: sueperfly

sueperfly — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:20:52 +0000

Although I do not fully understand because I am not a lesbian, and although I can understand people wanting these kids to have a “strong” male role model, I know plenty of children who grew up with a “strong” male role model around, and would have been better off growing up without one. Not every “strong” role model is a “positive” role model. Ideally, these boys will grow up around some positive male influences (uncles, grandfathers, family friends, etc), but in the end, we can only wish for every child positive role models, no matter what sex they happen to be.