Meri Perra blogs about the challenges she and her partner face in trying to raise their girls with feminist values
Here’s one to bring us down a notch. Just as last weeks’ Globe article told us lesbians are better parents than straight moms and dads, the New York Times ran a piece in their Lives section by writer Benjamin Anastas about growing up in early eighties suburbia with two lesbian moms.
It wasn’t pretty. Anastas’ older teenaged brother rebelled in a bad way and left home as soon as he could. Referring to his moms as pioneers, Anistas says: “We were pioneers, too, but only by proxy. We were not prepared for the savages behind the hedges and the front gates, their radar for what was different about our house.”
