ENDEAVOUR FORUM NEWSLETTER No. 134, JUNE 2009
BOOKSHELF
“Out From Under: The Impact of Homosexual Parenting” 
by Dawn Stefanowicz.
Publisher: Annotation Press, $14.95 (Canadian).
Review reprinted from Reality, a bimonthly publication of REAL Women of Canada.
If ever a book has pointed out the need for a strong, protective male figure in a family, this book is it. This book is not for everyone, however, since it portrays human degradation and sordid behaviour that is difficult to read at times. That is because Dawn Stefanowicz writes of her horrendous experience growing up with a homosexual father.
The latter failed utterly in protecting and affirming her both as a person, and as a woman. Instead, her father, who was himself the product of a drunken abusive father and who was sexually and physically abused many times as a child, spent his entire life looking for a father figure himself who would love, affirm and attend to him. That is, he longed for and sought to obtain male companionship and love through his gay lifestyle to meet his own emotional needs. In so doing, he failed to provide attention and affection for his wife and children who were left to cope alone. Unfortunately, Dawn’s mother was an ineffective and submissive person who was overwhelmed with her own neediness, and did little to help her children in their agony.
Dawn’s father brought a succession of lovers into the home where his sexual acts were often carried out, and which Dawn sometimes witnessed. Her father used Dawn to lure and attract men when he cruised, since homosexual men also apparently like to have attractive women around them even though they are not sexually attracted to them. Dawn was forced by her father to watch sexually perverse and violent TV. His succession of lovers in and out of the home over her childhood taught her the bitter lesson which was to trust no one or never allow herself to become attached to another human being as they will only betray and abandon her in the end.
The book does show, however, that through a deep faith and the genuine love of a good husband, healing and forgiveness can take place, as occurred to Dawn, who forgave her father by the time he died of AIDS in 1991.
The lesson learned from the book is that homosexuals who demand the “right” to adopt children or bring them into their same-sex relationship by way of medical technology, on the basis that they are supposedly equally as good parents as heterosexuals, is a fraud. Vulnerable children need both a father and a mother to love and protect them. They should not be used as instruments of social experimentation by narcissistic needy individuals who seek their sexual gratifications and their identities outside the traditional family.
The promiscuous lifestyle of most homosexuals should be a warning sign to common sense Canadians that society must prevent children from experiencing the corruption caused by same-sex attraction and behaviour.
Dawn Stefanowicz’s book does a tremendous service by telling a terrible tale in its stark reality, and not according to the picture that homosexual activists would like a gullible public to believe.
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