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Homoparentality: what shrinks think
Jean-Pierre Winter, more against homoparentality
“Every child necessarily has a father and a mother. The two identities are there, why remove them? “, Such is the opinion of the psychoanalyst Jean-Pierre Winter. For him, the two figures are essential to the construction of a child. ” It is a reality, the father and the mother bring to the child two visions of the world, two different ways of being. As a result, even unconsciously, there is a specific expectation on the part of the child vis-à-vis each of his parents. Without knowing it, he knows that his father is there so as not to leave him under the total influence of his mother, for example, ”explains the psychoanalyst.
“This question of knowing whether the child needs heterosexual parents for his development is imposed on us by associations for the defense of homosexual rights,” said Jean-Pierre Winter. According to him, the real question to have is “what happens when you deliberately decide to deprive a child of its father or mother, excluding accidental causes, of course.” “The psychoanalyst assures us that one cannot make love a condition of well-being.” I do not see why, for the first time in history, we should legislate for what a minority claims, in a minority . “For Jean-Pierre Winter, the desire to marry and have children among homosexuals,” who claimed to be marginal, enjoying a liberated sexuality, stripped of any notion of conception, is only “a need for bourgeois normality ».
As for homoparental adoption, the psychoanalyst believes that there is not enough hindsight. ” It cannot be resolved in a generation. And all the studies on the subject are irrelevant. They are carried out by associations for the defense of homosexuals, that is completely biased ”.
Geneviève Delaisi de Perceval, for homoparentality
Psychoanalyst Geneviève Delaisi de Perceval does not share this opinion. “In view of my long experience, I believe that there is no fundamental difference for a child to be raised by parents of the same sex”, she explains. According to the specialist, the most important thing for the well-being of the child is that the parent couple is strong and gets along. “You should know that adoption within homosexual couples is even more considered than among heterosexuals. And homosexuals with children separate much less than heterosexual couples. For Geneviève Delaisi de Perceval, the main thing is to tell, from an early age, his story to the child “so as not to embark on a difficult situation. “
* National Institute for Demographic Studies, 2005