Jaden's letter asking Prime Minister Tony Abbott why his mothers can't get married. “So then he said, society will change if it’s ok to be gay, and he started carrying a notebook around with him all day, and wrote three drafts of the letter before he read it to us.” In the letter, Jaden asks if mothers can get married and is confused as to why Mr Abbott “won't let them get married”. “But if they did married, how would it hurt you? I mean like you wouldn't even see them and dude your sister is a lesbian! And if you can accept that I'm sure you can let gay and lesbians get married!” Jaden then attempts to appeal to the Prime Minister's conscience: “Thank you for listening and if you let my parents get married then my life and there [sic] life would be so much easier” - before using another strategy altogether.

Jaden, 10 posting his letter to Tony Abbott. “So if this works maybe when I'm older and all the other people would for vote for you! You would be famous for it and rich,” he writes. Before signing off with a pithy “Thank you Mr Prime Minister!” the 10-year-old makes a definitive statement, saying that he “also get to choose whether being gay or lesbian was right or wrong and I chose right and no one will persuade me to change and I mean it”. Jaden's letter. Ms Wood, who is an English teacher, said she did not edit the letter before it was sent off on Monday afternoon. She said Jaden had been practising persuasive writing in class and wanted to use his new-found skills to help fight for a good cause.

“It was actually out of character for him to write this - usually, we can’t get him to write anything,” she said. Despite his letter attracting media attention, Jaden’s intention was not to court fame, Ms Wood said. The passionate 10-year-old just wants to hear from the Prime Minister himself. “We told him about the media attention, and all he cared about was if Abbott read it,” Ms Wood said. “He asked if we could get married now. He doesn’t really care that everyone has seen the letter.” But Jaden's mothers have prepared the 10-year-old for an unfavourable outcome.

“He knows how it is, he has come to a gay protest march before," Ms Wood said. “He’ll be disappointed if he doesn’t get a reply, but we’ve prepared him so that if it comes out like that, he’ll know what to do. He's a resilient boy.” Ms Wood said her son was teased at school for having unmarried parents, and that, “in his mind, he just wants to be normal”. “He just can’t understand why we can’t get married,” she said. Last month, 11-year-old Orlando Burcham caused a stir after asking Mr Abbott why gay men and women can't be married in our “beautiful country”.

“It is so pathetic that you aren't letting the gay people of Australia and other countries get married here,” he wrote. “You were elected to represent our country, not yourself. Just because you think it's wrong, does not give you the right to make it illegal.” The letter went viral and ended up on websites around the world. Mr Abbott responded to Orlando's letter a few days later, telling him that “though we disagree on this issue, I respect the views you put forward”. Follow us on Twitter