Should Gay people be allowed to adopt?

Question

why do people always slag the gay community off.
im not gay personally but they should have the same rights as non-gay people in Britain.
who agrees

Answer 1

everyone should have the same rights to adopt whether you are gay or straight or single parent, just the same as straight people/couples

Answer 2

I think that the question that people need to ask when considering any adoption is can the prospective parent provide the physical and emotional support that a child needs to be healthy and happy. if the answer to this question iyes then it should not matter what gender sex or race that person is because at the end of the day a child deserves a happy safe home and if someone is offering to provide this then we should as decent people be glad that there are still people who care enough to take on a child which is not their own.

Answer 3

They should only be able to if the kid is not wanted by a traditional home, and has some kind of illness, like AIDS.

I don't think they should get the same or special preference for newborns on waiting lists,

Traditional loving homes with a mommy and a daddy should get preference every time.

After all, gays grew up in traditional homes, THEY had mothers! Why would they want to deny a child a mother, since they had one?
Did they not love their mothers?
Lesbians can get pregnant easier due to IVF treatment, and in my opinion,
it's not as bad to deny father than a mother.
Fathers have taken off and been away at war through the millenia,
but women have always been there to raise the children--even if not the mother, aunts, sisters, the women kept the domesticated child rearing home, not the men,-it's the same globally.
so in essence, a small child has no place in a home with men and all their boyfriends and male friends about,
but children always have a home with the female community, though male role models are important, it's much easier to get father figures than a "mother" figure in an all male gay home.
Sorry, but that's the way it is.

Answer 4

I do not agree to that, children's benefit must come first and a child has the right to have a normal life among a mom and a dad or alternatively an adopting male and female performing the role of a mom and dad. Why do we have to dis-privilege children who were given for adoption even more and make them feel something is wrong with them?!
The only way for gays to have children is through adoption, and that will highlight these poor children who strive to feel they are just the same as any other child!

Answer 5

Yes, they should be able to adopt! Every child deserves the right to grow up happy and healthy and to be loved. Denying a child a family because of sexual preference is WRONG! People think it will mess up the child? Thats a bunch of BS cause I know alot of hetro couples who should have never become parents!

Answer 6

I totally agree.

Why are we so convinced that people need a mother and father, and that's the only thing that makes a "proper family"? Other cultures have totally different ways of organising families and child rearing which work just fine- we need to be more open minded about families in general. Single parents can raise perfectly happy and healthy kids, all by themselves. We certainly shouldn't worry about a gay couple's ability to provide a home, based just on the fact they are gay.

To the person who said "as long as they're allowed to choose their sexuality"- well of course! Are you suggesting that gay couples will try to raise their kids gay too?! That's horribly unfair. Straight couples can raise gay kid- since when does everyone copy their parents sexual orientation?

Also, to people worried about the kids being seen as "different"- if we let gay couples adopt, it won't be that unusual in years to come. Everyone's parents are going to embarrass them or make them feel different at some point- because we ARE all different. Let's not try and make everybody, and every family, exactly the same.

Answer 7

I think it's about providing the best home for the child. As I understand it, there are more couples wishing to adopt than there are children who need adopting, so it would have to be on some kind of point system that does not discriminate on anything so pointlessly arbitrary as the sex of the parents.

That said, if it could be proved that a child of same sex parents would have a more difficult life due to social prejudice against their home situation, then this factor - though reprehensible - would have to be included as points against when choosing parents.

Answer 8

As far as I'm concerned,anybody that can provide a loving and secure home to a child in need should be able to do it regardless of sexual orientation,marital status,colour,etc..
A child that is loved,wanted,and secure will grow into an adult that is confident,happy,and succesful. Don't we all want that for our children?

Answer 9

It's not really natural - but it has made me think, I had a very drunken violent father my childhood was hell - I wondered when I read your question - would I have preferred same sex parents, instead of the profound misery I suffered. - Still thinking !!!

Answer 10

they should absolutely have the same rights. how many nasty scally kids do you see on a regular basis who are being brought up by a supposedly 'normal' couple? it's got nothing to do with who brings kids up it's HOW they do it. if a gay couple can raise a child in a healthy, loving, intellectually stimulating environment then they should be allowed to. their sexuality shouldn't have any bearing on the matter.