What do we do with the rest of the orphans?

Question

Evangelicals want to limit adoption to the "one man, one woman" ideal, and prevent gays and lesbians from even acting as foster parents. Where it's still legal, they throw up roadblocks to discourage it, like stopping second-parent adoption and opposing domestic partner benefits. But what about the thousands of kids currently being raised in group homes and for-profit foster homes, many of them minorities, older or problem kids, terminally ill, or seriously disabled with little or no hope of ever being adopted by an "ideal family"? And, this is just in the U.S.; millions more in Africa and elsewhere have been orphaned by the AIDS epidemic or abandoned by their birth parents as an alternative to starvation.

I'd like to hear some real alternatives to this problem from those that have knowingly and deliberately sacrificed these children's lives for the sake of "sending the right message".

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070112/people_nm/madonna_d

A couple follow-up comments-
- In Florida you cannot even act as a foster parent, let alone adopt. Focus on the Family, the Catholic Church, and others are spending millions pushing similar laws elsewhere
- Yes, clean white babies are a hot commodity, but many black, hispanic and AIDS babies are not
- The Catholic "charities" the one person is referring to are heavily subsidized directly by the government to provide these services. The Catholic Church, like the Boy Scouts, has every right to do as they please provided they stop taking taxpayer money
- The "just go to another state" response is hardly irrelevant to those that are not independently wealthy, and can't afford to take out a second mortgage to cover travel eexpenses
- In Michigan, I can adopt as an individual, but thanks to the state voters "defending" marriage, my partner could not adopt the child and my will granting custody to my partner could be contested by the state or a relative

Answer 1

horrible, isn't it? they don't care about anybody but themselves and have no problem letting children get neglected by the system as lon as those they deem undesireable do not get the chance to give them a home--sickening

Answer 2

if a child is put up for adoption at birth they will get adopted. it;s the children that are put in foster homes when they are older that don't get adopted it's only because people want to raise them from infants. it really doesn't matter if gays and lesbians adopt, there's not enough American newborns that why people spend tens of thousands of dollars to adopt overseas. Don't get me wrong i think homosexuals should be able to adopt. I think forcing Catholic charities to let same sex couples adopt was wrong, they are a private organization and should be able to help or not help whoever they want just like ***** College fund doesn't have to help white kids. But in most states gay's and lesbians can adopt (or they can go to another state) so the other things you are saying are irrelevant

Answer 3

i really doubt that it will be banned for a gay couple to adopt ... those are just gossips etc..