Rights of children in a gay marriage?

Question

I understand the right of gay people to marry - Canadian law has allowed it. However, is it not unfair for the children the adopt (or have) to have to grow up in two-father or two-mother families? Similar to single parent families, wouldn't these kids be disadvantaged for not having a father and a mother?

Answer 1

Exactly why gays shouldn't be allowed to raise kids, or have them because if they have them naturally that opens up a whole other immoral can o' worms.

Answer 2

Although I disagree that gays should be allowed to marry ,I can't imagine why anyone would object to someone giving a child a home and raising them .Any one who would take a child and raise them in a loving,secure home should be praised not questioned. Who ever said that children have no rights in a gay home? They have the same rights as any one else.No harm comes from a child being raised in a home with two woman or two men.No more harm than any other.I am one of those people who believe children should grow up having a positive male and a positive female influence in their lives.I raised my children basically on my own and even then I made sure they had a positive male figure in their life. I'm sure gay people know that advantage as well and do everything possible to make sure the children grow up normally .Homosexuals are checked out like heteros before being allowed to adopt and probably more so.Just be glad they have been given a home regardless of their parents sexual preferences.Gay homes have bedroom doors that close too.

Answer 3

If they had two parents, they'd still have the love of two adults in the home. Not all single parent kids are disadvantaged. There are ways to get male/female role models into your child's life without marrying that role model.

The thing is, when gay people adopt...generally they're adopting kids that would otherwise not be adopted. Is it better for them to be in a loving home, or to spend their entire childhood in foster care or in a facility of some sort? One loving parent, or two loving parents of the same gender is better in my mind, than being handed off from one place to another.

Answer 4

studies have shown in the long run children in any of the three main types of family- 1 parent, 2parent str8, 2 parent gay- the kids (now adults) have done no worse than the others.

its more money,how many hours parents work, and the completion of a person's needs (love, social interaction, disipline, stability, food, shelter, clothes, ect) that matter.

there are different problem experienced by each kind of family that the others don't experience- but as the studies ahve shown over all there is no worse or better off child based on their parents.

Answer 5

i will withstand the urge to throw insults at you and ideas-set your arguments from a logical attitude. at the beginning, your argument against gay marriage. It makes 3 very great assumptions, those being: a million.) God exists. 2.) God created the corporate of marriage, fairly than it being a societal invention. 3.) God additionally intends marriage to in undemanding terms be between one guy, one woman. as quickly as you're making an attempt to justify those 3 assumptions, your argument might carry some weight. in any different case, that's baseless. Secondly, your argument against adoption. This argument additionally makes assumptions. You claimed that little ones raised in gay families will grow to be gay themselves, yet presented no info for this. if it is the case, why do gay little ones come from heterosexual families, or, sometimes, fundamentalist non secular anti-gay families? besides, you presented no mathematical/statistical info on your declare that, if comparable-intercourse adoption have been universally criminal, gay human beings could outnumber right this moment human beings. concerning comparable-intercourse adoption and consent. mutually as that is real that a toddler/small newborn can not consent to being raised in a similar-intercourse enjoyed ones, it is desirable to ALL mom and dad AND CARERS. a newborn won't opt for to have been observed, yet in lots of situations it is the only selection by using unlucky situations. a newborn does not come to a determination who his/her mom and dad are the two. If the final, maximum loving, maximum stable enjoyed ones attainable for a newborn is happens to be a similar-intercourse enjoyed ones, how is is bigoted on the youngster?

Answer 6

What I don't understand is that it is such an issue because of the "possible" influence of homosexuality to the child. Where that argument fails is when you take a look at the gay community and know that most of those gays came from straigh families, a mom and a dad. Now no one seems to mind that single parents raise children so why is it an issue if they have two daddies or two mommies and are deprived of a mother figure or father figure.

Answer 7

Maplewood NJ is closing its library between 2 and five because of unruly children. Everyone I asked on Yahoo thought it was because of divorce, and single parent families. Single parent families are typicaly female only. No one knows for sure the benefit of dual opposite sex parents as heads of family. However, the Maplewood scenario suggests strongly that things are not going so well as is.

Answer 8

Children, or those under 18, have NO rights. They have protections. As for children of gay parents, from what I have seen, they grow up better than most hetero parents. They are more committed to do the right thing.

Answer 9

no. any child is lucky to have a parent who loves them, cares for them and feeds them. most gay couples have a friend that also can play the mother or father role if the child lacks that role in his or her life.

Answer 10

As far as I see it, they think the kid will "turn" gay. As if you can! You're born that way, it's not a choice.