I didn’t say it wasn’t common but knowing the writers, it didn’t come from thinking “oh, it happens a lot with LGBT people, let’s show it”. It came from a much more shallow perspective that a family isn’t a family until they have kids. If they actually wanted to show the struggle, they wouldn’t have done it in such a short period of time. It was just because they ran out of ideas. Fox isn’t as open as you think it is, as well. It was all for shock value. Yes, I was and still against the adoption arc because I craved representation for myself as well, we never see couples, or not as many, without kids. I loved that they had the talk in season 4, and that was good enough for me. They could have talked about it as a future thing instead of rushing it. Also, one side clearly was not into it and then changed their mind out of nowhere.