With all of the terrorizing of GLBT kids/people, it's great to find this from the Netherlands

[Divine Discontent]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA9cNnIyCdw&feature=watch_response


Two Fathers (Twee Vaders) by Terrence Uphoff


Bravo, Boy, Bravo! This song really gives me hope for society seeing a kids television show where this song was performed by this teen with tons of other kids around, and many watching!

I was watching a Cyndi Lauper video and saw that this was just uploaded onto youtube. With all the bullying and violence directed at Gay kids and adults, this really made me smile. And the teenager sounds really good as does his song which others have re-recorded.


LYRICS - Two Fathers
We live in a terrace house
we have nice stuff at home
we live there quite OK with three of us together
Bas works for the newspaper
and Diedrick is laboratorian
they adopted me when I was one year old

I'm still the only child
but that's OK with me
that way I get all the attention and love from those two
Bas brings me to the school
with Diedrick I play violin
and with three of us we watch soaps on TV

I have two fathers
two real fathers
Sometimes cool and sometimes strict
but it's going great with us

I have two fathers
two real fathers
who, if they have to
both can be my mother

When I have to go to bed
Diedrick checks my homework
and Bas does the dishes or is doing laundry
And if I'm ill or have a fever
then there's nobody I know
who can be so caring as Diedrick or Bas

He has two fathers
two real fathers
Sometimes cool and sometimes strict
but it's going great with us

He has two fathers
two real fathers
who, if they have to
both can be my mother

Sometimes I get bullied at school
of course it's not nice
"Your parents, they are homo!"
They find it strange
Then I just shrug my shoulders
"So what! I'm their son!"
It's not ordinary
but for me it's quite OK

Two real fathers
Sometimes cool and sometimes strict
but it's going great with us

He has two fathers
two real fathers
who, if they have to
who, if they have to
both can be my mother




From Wiki:

"Twee Vaders" (meaning Two fathers) is a Dutch language song by Terence Uphoff. He sang it in 2005 on the Dutch chidren's program Kinderen voor Kinderen (meaning Children for children) when Terence was just 11 and is a pioneering song in support of gay parenting. The song also appears in the annual 2005 album released in the Netherlands entitled Kinderen voor Kinderen 26,<1> being track #9 of 13 songs in the 26th album in the program series.

The song is about a child adopted by gay partners (called Bas and Diederik in the lyrics) when the child was just one year old.<2> The lyrics convey the life of an adopted son by two men who the song lyrics say are "two fathers, two real fathers, who, if they have to, both can be my mother".<3> It is not clear if the singer Terence himself is the adopted child as in the song or not. "Twee vaders" became popular beyond the scope of the Dutch program and became well-known internationally with various translations of the Dutch song into English (as "Two Fathers"), in Spanish ("Dos Padres"), French ("Deux pères"), German and many others.
In popular culture

* Didier performed the song with a choir of youth live at the 2007 gay EuroGames in Antwerp.<4>
* Maxim Gijs performed the song on October 13, 2007 during the Kinderen voor Kinderen Song Festival
* The American singer-songwriter and actor Jay Brannan performed the song in Dutch during his concert tour in the Netherlands.<5>

[Cronus Protagonist]

1. Awesome!

Very inspiring... I loved to see the other kids sing along with the chorus. Heart warming.

[Divine Discontent]

2. Yes! When they started singing, I was very touched. That boy was very confident, and his love of

his dads (who, when they need to can be his moms, ha!) truly shines through! We need a real TV station in America that will press forth progressive things like this, and that is national like the TBS Superstation, or WGN Chicago, because there's many thousands of kids who would have felt like they were being spoken for if they saw this boy singing.

Thanks for watching it, CP. I just wanted to share.

[Cronus Protagonist]

3. I shared it on FaceBook

So now ummm dozens of people will see it. :P

[Divine Discontent]

5. cool! thanks. you very well may get it seen by a youngin who really needs to see there's other kids

out there who share their similarities.

:hug:

[1776Forever]

4. What a sweet child and seems like a lucky one too. Bravo to him! n/t

[readmoreoften]

6. That was terribly sweet.

[truedelphi]

7. K & R and commenting so I can listen to this later.

And thanks.

[felix_numinous]

8. OH that was beautiful

thank you for posting this!

[kevinbgoode]

9. I've used that clip when I teach Gender Communication classes

it is interesting to see even college students give pause to the themes of this song - but I've never had a negative response from it at all.