Parenting

Published on 25th October, 2015 in Mid-day. An organisation does not believe that single men and single women can adopt and raise children. It would rather keep children in the orphanage. Can we call their belief superstition, as it is not based on logic or any scientific evidence? Would the rationalists protest against such notions? Probably not. We simply assume that a person praying to a rock is ‘irrational’ and ‘unscientific’ and must be mocked, but a person who believes single men and women cannot be good parents is following ‘a different kind of logic’ that must be respected. Be that as it may, before ..