Having children for a lesbian couple offers a number of different issues.

Firstly, how do you have a child when there is no man in your life? Adoption, or sperm donor are the likely routes, but one (or both) of a couple may have a child from a previous relationship.

But once you have your child,that is when the problems start. Schools, social groups, friends, other parents and so on. So many different occasions when the roles of mother and father come to the fore and when you have to deal with being different from these "tranditional" and "acceptable" family units