A new Australian book aimed at pre-schoolers is courting controversy with its aim to teach children about lesbian couples getting pregnant with sperm donors. Where Did I Really Come From? also includes details descriptions of intercourse, reports the Daily Telegraph. In a chapter about surrogacy, one drawing shows two men holding a baby, while ways a female couple can have a baby is explained elsewhere. The book's author Narelle Wickham says it is suitable to be read to two-year-olds and has defended the book as a mainstream publication. "It is just trying to normalise to children that there are many ways to conceive a child,'' she told the paper. But conservative groups are outraged. "It devalues the traditional family unit and at the very least desensitises us," Focus On The Family spokeswoman Deb Sorensen said.
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First published: Tuesday, 5th May 2009 - 6:39pm