> It feels extremely unusual to me to specifically call out a mother/father relationship if they weren't intending to exclude queer relationships

When most relationships are hetero, just calling out hetero pairing as a proxy is.. perfectly fair. That's not some kind of secret exclusionary dogwhistle just to use common language.

If parents are almost always a man and a woman and you say "kids with a mom and a dad"... you're just using the English language.

Dogpiling someone and attempting to shame them for "a lack of inclusivity" isn't some kind of meaningful attack, it's just a failure to be a useful communicator.

Hard disagree. Saying "two parents" is faster and easier than saying "a mom and a dad". Listeners can fill in the gaps with their own biases; the speaker doesn't need to.

Anyway, I'm not the one failing to communicate usefully here. Did you actually read the original comment? It has no meaningful content. It is just a more verbose way of saying less than the title of the article -- unless you read it literally, in which case it's an explicitly homophobic way of restating the title.

Every child on the planet is guaranteed to have a male parent and a female parent.

I'm not aware of any ways to create a child without that.

Call them a "sperm maker" and an "egg haver" if it makes you feel better but that's reality.

Encouraging both of those people to take on the role of mother and father and parent together isn't some crazy, outlandish idea.

the best outcome is always for a child to be with both biological parents. any other constellation may still provide a wonderful environment, but it always implies the absence of at least one biological parent, and this will affect the child.

Absolute dogshit take.

If we're making things up wholecloth, the best outcome for any child is to be ejected into deep space cryogenically frozen to be collected by an insterstellar AI and raised in a zoo. At least then they won't have to deal with their abusive biological parents.

abusive parents are the exception and not the norm. and even then, if the parents can be fixed and live with the children (under supervision if need be) then the children are still better off. because the worst feeling for a child besides outright abuse is the feeling of being abandoned by those who are supposed to care for them.