http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2814642/Sculpture-real-family-unveiled-Birmingham-Turner-Prize-winning-artist-boasting-two-single-mothers-children-Kyan-Shaye.html
Does this statue reflect single parent families or is there more to this than first meets the eye, and is in fact a sly way to immortalise same sex parenthood?
/// Her £100,000 work representing what it means to be an ‘ordinary’ family in 2014 is of two single mothers and their children. ///
/// Dr Patricia Morgan, a leading researcher on family policy, said the artist’s decision to portray a fatherless family was ‘a disgrace’. ‘We should know whether or not there’s a man involved here,’ she said. ‘Is he taking responsibility, living with them, or not? These are things the viewer needs to know. ///
/// ‘They are putting this up as some kind of ideal which people have to be like or have to evolve in this direction, but it represents under 1 per cent of the population.’ ///
/// The sisters say the sculpture will help other families with unusual set-ups feel welcome in Birmingham. ///
I didn't realise that one must meet a certain criteria before they feel welcome in Birmingham?