What do you think about gay adoption?

Question

I'm not gay and can't really say that it is the most ideal of environments to bring up kids, however, i'm sure gay people are just as able to bring up kids in a respectable manner

Answer 1

I think as long as the people are properly vetted there is no reason why gay couples cannot adopt a child. As long as a child grows up in a loving environment, I don't think it matters who provides it.

Answer 2

If you think about it. I dont believe it matters who is doing the parenting as long as it is getting done. Lots of familys now a days are raising children in broken homes so it is just the father or just the mother. What does it matter if there is two men or two women in the household. It doesnt matter if the parents are gay that doesnt mean that the child is going to grow up gay which is what the issue is whith this right now. The way that parents fight with each other is crazy right now. That could also contribute to the violence rate we have but Im not saying that if you are raised by gay people you wont have the violence but I believe it would be less. I think it is no ones business what you do with your life besides your own and how your child reacts to you when he/she is grown. You can only trully figure out what it is like if you let it happen so who is to judge right now.

Answer 3

I have read the above answers...and wonder just what those who say, "a child needs a father and a mother" will say when their child's father leaves and doesn't return. Perhaps they will put their child up for adoption, for they will no longer fit their own description of what a child needs????
It has be demonstrated that children of gay couples do better in school, are better adjusted in society, are high achievers, have very good lives, and are loved...they fare better than most children from "straight" families. The incidence of Gay or Straight children coming from these gay families is NO higher than the national norm...so there goes all the arguments against such adoptions. Here, there are many who would rather see a child live in an orphanage, denied love of a family, and denied the benefits of schooling that most Gay couples bring to children. These people sit on their high horses and make judgements that are highly detrimental to children. Do they rush to adopt all unwanted children? NO! But they want NO ONE to adopt them either, especially "sinful gays" who will "molest them and make them faggots." Truth is, it is the straights who molest their daughters and sons....the percentage difference is astounding! Homosexual child preditors do NOT adopt children, they operate alone, and the percentage of child molesters being gay is the same as the national aveage of straight to gay...about 10% or less of child molesters are Gay....but you would NEVER know it if you listened to fanatic fundamentalists, would you? To them, every social ill is Homosexually based...small minds operate in a very small world. Good luck.

Answer 4

I can see there are a lot of the same bulls**t reasons on here for same sex couples not having children these mainly being

1) A child needs a mother and a father
2) They will get bullied
3) They would commit suicide
4) They will force their children to be gay

Response

1) Explain single parent families?
2) Hands up all the people who had heterosexual parents but still got bullied at school
3) Half of the population are thought to have at least contemplated suicide, how many of them had heterosexual parents?
4) Did their heterosexual parents force them to be gay in the first place?


When people answer these questions do they merely state their own opinion to be scientifically proven fact or is that my imagination.

It has been proven that for a child to be healthy they need nourishment, stability and love; all of which can be provided by gay men and women a lot better than the people out there who are abusing their own children. There are children in orphanages crying out for a family and someone to love them and it's the bigots like those on here objecting against it who stand in the way of hundreds of these children having homes to go to each night.

Childen at school get bullied because the other children are bullies. If it wasn't for them having gay parents it would be for having big ears, the wrong shoes, the wrong coloured hair.

Lets face it the ones doing the bullying are likely to be the offspring of those on here objecting to gay adoption simply because they passed on their prejudice to the next generation. Well done, you will probably succeed in perpetuating the very thing which you are currently objecting about. Einstein had nothing on you lot!

Answer 5

Im not gay either but I dont see what the problem is with this. Gay people choose a member of their own sex as a life partner for the exact same reasons hetrosexual people do. the only difference is they cannot have children naturally.loads of kids are brought up in far from ideal enviroments,[alchoholics,drug addicts] are we saying thats okay so long as the parents are not gay.A child brought up in a Gay setting will probably receive more love and support than the above examples. I used to live next door to two gay men and would happily let my kids go to their house.The key point is they were gay, not perverted

Answer 6

In all honesty, I don't think it matters which way you swing.

Whether you are gay, straight, bisexual, backwards, forwards, who cares? As long as you can provide a roof over their heads, food in their bellies, and unconditional love, who's to say gay people can't adopt? I think it's great!

Just because somebody wants to be with someone of the same sex, it doesn't mean they don't want children.

I don't think you can judge a person's parenting skills based on their sexuality, that's ridiculous. That would be like saying deaf people can't adopt, black people can't adopt, left-handed people can't adopt, tall people can't adopt.. I'm sure you get the idea.

I think that if you can provide love, a home and a good life, then anyone can adopt, regardless of sexual preferences.

Answer 7

I'm all for it. I'd love to adopt a gay! Just kidding.

Gays can great parents. There is no study that shows children of gay parents turn out messed up in any way.


I may adopt myself one day, and I believe I will be a great lesbian Mom!

Answer 8

My late partner Gwenneth and I had discussed this very seriously. Eventually we decided not to go ahead, firstly because of seemingly insurmountable legal problems at the time and secondly because her extremely homophobic family would have done all in their power to destroy that child's chance of happiness.
How I wish we had tried to adopt. The love we had may not have moved mountains but would have surely protected our loved one.
Too late now. I must stop before the tears start.
Strength to those who take on this labor of love.
Rose P.

Answer 9

the idea of people discriminating against gays and saying that it isn't a good environment is the environment that kids should not grow up in. If gays bring up kids, at least the kids wont discriminate other people and will understand peoples feelings more. btw, i am not gay.

Answer 10

As long as the couple can support the child and provide them with a loving environment, I see no reason why not. We all have the capability to love and nurture.