Homosexuality within marriage still a taboo subject

20/03/2007

With regards to the issue of Gay Rights and tolerance (Mature Times, March 2007), what about women such as myself who unwittingly married a gay man because of taboos and ignorance?

Whilst I am now in my sixties and society has changed a great deal since I was a young woman, the marriage of a heterosexual woman to a homosexual man still has a taboo about it. It is simply swept under the carpet. The men concerned can become violent whenever they felt threatened, leaving mothers emotionally isolated, and often eventually abandoned.

Children need to see grown up behaviour in the home, and I will always regret that my children didn't, as it has had such wide repercussions for us all.

In my view there is no "normal" conception of marriage for a gay man, but I feel that lonliness can lead to wanting a child to offset being left out of society.

R Olden, Hythe