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Originally posted by stronger23
I wouldn't want my 5 year old niece or nephew watching a kids show that has gay couples in it, it's doing too way much. They're kids. All they know is mommy and daddy. Its not disneys responsibility to educate children to same sex love.
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Maybe in 1930, but now there are all kinds of families possible.
There are tv-series about divorced families, families where the mother or father deceased, series where both parents deceased and where they live with their grandparents or aunts and uncles or even with foster care. You have series where kids get basically raised by their nanny's etc. etc.
Kids do not only know about their mommy and daddy, kids are smarter than most people give their credit for. Gay couples are also an example of family couples in this world. Kids should learn that, just like they learn about the fact that certain kids don't have either their mother or father around, or why the kid from school lives with her grandma and not her parents.
It is als not about responsiblity, it is about a platform that makes series with realistic and current situations. They could make series about the happy family, with two kids, a dog, a beautiful garden, with a father who has his own company and the mother who makes the best cookies in the world. With the only problems they surface are bullying, parents losing jobs etc. but those are not the only problems and situations in the world and also not a realistic picture to sketch.