The article I read was about how a gay man refers to his daughters' surrogate (biological) mother, as an oven. The author, Max Mutchnick, leads with a confusing opening. The book proposes a "pre-reading" question about our thoughts possible developmental issues of a child being raised by a same-sex couple. That coupled with the title, "My Daughters Have No Mother" lead me to believe that the article would be about children being raised with no actual mother (as in a female) and the effects it would have. However, it was more about how he calls the surrogate mother an oven, because he does not want to refer to her as the mother to his daughters.
This is understandable, but I still believe that he should explain to his daughters where they actually came from. However, to his benefit, as I understand it, this is his response argument blog posted to argue the Huffington Post blog. Knowing that this is more of a blog than an actual article, I can give him some leeway for not exactly being "put together."
The article does include a little insight into the process of getting a child if you are a same-sex couples. It talks about how he went to a website full of woman ready to be surrogate mothers. "She's just three clicks away." (Mutchnick) All in all I thought that the article as a whole was well organized, just a bit confusing in the middle, with a misleading title and pre-reading question in the beginning.
Interesting article! You might want to give some quotes from the source to help give your readers context...
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