Same-sex couples can be loving parents

Re. Jackie Taylor’s letter to the Salisbury Post, Feb. 11 (“Same-sex parents?”).

Children and dogs both need the same thing in parents/owners respectively, but rarely do they have a choice in the matter.

If they are fortunate, they are raised by someone who loves and cares for them regardless of the parent(s)/guardian(s)’s sexual orientation, marital status (single, married, divorced) or relationship (grandparents, foster or adoptive parents).

Same-sex parents may choose to have children like other couples in committed relationships. I know many same-sex couples who are dedicated, loving parents, adored by their children. Their main family struggle is not internal; it is external — dealing with the hurtful narrow-mindedness of others.

— Donna Prunkl

Salisbury

All you need is love

This is in response to the letter from Jackie Taylor:

Love makes a family. Let me say it again; LOVE makes a family.

Providing sperm or egg may make one a progenitor, but love is what makes a parent.

— Teresa Rowell

Salisbury