Watch with daddies: BBC ‘equality’ drive embraces children’s story time

Feb 4, 2019 by Jill

Modern fairy tales about same-sex parenting.

by Ann Farmer, MercatorNet:

As part of the BBC’s contribution to “LGBT history month” the singer Will Young is to read a story about same-sex parents on the CBeebies channel show Bedtime Stories. “Two Dads”, Mr Young told The Telegraph, is “the tale of a boy who has been adopted and finds himself happily raised by two fathers.”

He continued: “Children’s books are one of the first ways we learn about the world around us so I’m overjoyed to be reading a story to mark LGBT History Month. More so than ever, families in all forms should be recognised and celebrated – whether that’s two dads, two mums, families with a mum and a dad, those with a single parent, adoptive families and so on. I’ve never been more sure that inclusivity starts from the youngest possible age.” (“Will Young to read same-sex parents story on CBeebies,” Telegraph, February 2, 2019).

Two Dads was written by Carolyn Robertson — also author of Two Mums and a Menagerie — who is raising two adopted boys with her female partner, and is described as “a keen advocate of the rights and needs of adopted children and children within LGBT families.”

Apparently, neither she nor the book’s illustrator Sophie Humphries were raised by “two dads”, Neither was Will Young, born into an affluent middle-class family, the offspring of a man and a woman, but despite that “sure” that same-sex parenting should be celebrated.

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