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/^t/What is more, the situation is by no means less awkward at home. Since both parents are of the same sex, they have, more or less, the same to offer to their child. Therefore, the child becomes the object of their unceasing rivalry. Unlike in normal families, where mothers take care of the spiritual and emotional development of their children and fathers teach them to be tough, in the case of gay families both parents go to great lengths to compensate the child for the lack of faminine or masculine element. The outcome is that, trying to be both a mother and a father, they fail to be either because nature has not prepared them for this dual role.