L’altra famiglia. Prospettive etico-antropologiche sull’omogenitorialità

Abstract

Although not entering directly into the strictly pedagogical field of the school, this contribution offers some reflections that can explain the social resistance to accepting the flood equality between homosexual families and traditional families, too with a view to better understanding, and therefore overcoming, the episodes of discrimination to which they are subjected, in environments such as schools or peer groups, the children of gay and lesbian couples. The decisive one condemnation of these forms of discrimination, and in some cases of real homophobic bullying, does not exempt us from further reflection broad scope on the ethical, anthropological and legal aspects of homoparenting, and, above all, of its claimed equality with heterosexual family. Behind this alleged equivalence, in fact, the heterosexist prejudice according to which or a homosexual couple is like a traditional family, or it is one half couple. The tendency to imitate the heterosexual procreative model, furthermore, it could expose the same-parent couple, and theirs children, to those uncomfortable comparisons that are at the origin of that same one social stigmatization that the equality would like to avoid.