{"id":46361,"date":"2014-10-14T15:00:02","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T15:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/john_stonestreet_on_the_commodification_of_children\/"},"modified":"2014-10-14T15:00:02","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T15:00:02","slug":"john_stonestreet_on_the_commodification_of_children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46361","title":{"rendered":"John Stonestreet on the Commodification of Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This latest story from our brave new world may blow your mind, so I\u2019ll read straight from the Chicago Tribune: \u201cA white Ohio woman is suing a Downers Grove-based sperm bank, alleging that the company mistakenly gave her vials from an African-American donor, a fact that she said has made it difficult for her and her same-sex partner to raise their now 2-year-old daughter in an all-white community.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Now, I don\u2019t doubt the lesbian couple\u2019s love for the child. But I find it troubling which challenges the couple was willing and isn\u2019t willing to tolerate. They\u2019re suing because of the difficulties of raising a black child in a white community, but they were perfectly willing to risk raising the child without a father\u201d\u201da situation that the best evidence suggests poses far greater consequences for the child. Make no mistake: this is one of those stories that\u2019s a mirror of our culture\u2019s view of sex and children.<\/p>\n<p>There is no doubt that having a mom and a dad in the home is the best situation for healthy development of children. The evidence is overwhelming.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breakpoint.org\/bpcommentaries\/entry\/13\/26216\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This latest story from our brave new world may blow your mind, so I\u2019ll read straight from the Chicago Tribune: \u201cA white Ohio woman is suing a Downers Grove-based sperm bank, alleging that the company mistakenly gave her vials from<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46361\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,175,101,168,104,114,96,98,95,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-anthropology","category-children","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-life-ethics","category-marriage-family","category-science-technology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}