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Genealogy 21 gender/sexuality of children is under constant monitoring and policing through concerns about proper femininity/masculinity and heterosexuality. Foucault also made this point when he noted the role of parents, families, educators, doctors and psychologists in taking charge of ‘this precious and perilous, dangerous and endangered sexual potential’ (Foucault, 1990: 104). This, of course, relates to one of the key arguments against gay parenting, or any association between the ‘not-heterosexual’ and the child, which suggests that children will be corrupted or tainted by such association (see, for example, Morgan, 2002).
But he also argues that ‘the enforcement of the incest taboo for purposes of social reproduction’ is not relevant as a structuring device for most gay male relationships (Borneman, 2001: 35): ‘The relationship between Dieter and Harald resembled neither marriage nor parentage, while containing elements of both over time’ (Borneman, 2001: 37). In a second case, he describes a lesbian couple, Bärbel (aged 42) and Mirka (53). Mirka’s son, Martin (34) is married to his mother’s partner, Bärbel, ‘out of loneliness, out of flight from homosexual desire, and due to the strong “recommendation” of the local Communist party boss that he normalize his domestic relations’ (Borneman, 2001: 38).
Patricia Morgan, author of a book opposed to all gay parenting (Morgan, 2002), published by the Christian Institute (UK) – an organization that campaigns against gay adoption (Christian Institute, 2002) – is quoted as saying, ‘they do not wish to discuss the pros and cons of gay adoption ... They do not appear interested in evidence about the outcomes for children’ (Doughty, 2009). BAAF immediately released a press statement from their Chief Executive, which read: The quote attributed to the British Association for Adoption & Fostering (BAAF) in today’s Daily Mail was in fact the words of one gay adopter, out of many who featured in our new Pink Guide to Adoption.