Should gay couples be aloud to raise children?

Question

Being gay, natually means that you give up your ability to reproduce offspring. Its just a fact, women and women or men and men can´t make a baby.

So why does it seem right to allow them to have one? They choose the lifestyle that makes it impossible to have children.

Also, if two gay guys raise a boy, does he turn out to be gay? or two women raise a girl, will she be gay?

damn, if there´s smth i´ve learned from this question its that gay people get offended pretty easily. i was simply asking some questions....

Answer 1

Actually I am gay but I have a child. I was married a few years before I came out and have a daughter who is now 19. I raised her with my husband after getting divorced from my wife and meeting the man of my dreams about a year later. She turned out fine. OKAY OKAY she wears too much black for my taste and she is a little spoiled but other than that she is agood person attend her first year of college.

it is a fair question, especially if you don't happen to be around any gay parents. And you were not rude.

Answer 2

Okay, yes we get offended by these questions, but it's because of the wording. We don't "choose the lifestyle" like you said. So that probably rubbed people the wrong way. Also the assumption that if gay couples raised kids we would raise them gay, that's not true either. Since I believe you are gay from birth, you have a chance to adopt a gay child, even if you are a heterosexual couple. I really firmly believe that if the household is a good one, it shouldn't matter the orientation of the parents raising the child. If there is love and a gay couple wants to raise a baby, I say good for them! There are a lot of children in the US and all over the world that need good homes, so I think any family who can take care of them, is a really good family. Sexual orientation doesn't matter and nothing bad will happen to the child for having gay parents. :)

Answer 3

Wow there are a lot of mad people on here. But to answer the question at face value...

I think that although they (we, me whatever) give up the right to reproduce as you say doesnt make us any less of a parent. And sometimes maybe even better parents. THere are a lot of gay people out there that have children some raise the to be gay and some raise them to be whoever they want to be. Just because a child has two moms or two dads doesnt mean that is how they will turn out.

Besides in most relationships like this that have children the child often assigns one as the "mom"and one as the "dad" in roles

Answer 4

No, you weren't asking questions, you were displaying your hatreds and bigotry. And then you get surprised when people defend themselves?

Examples -
"They choose the lifestyle" - NO. Sexual orientation is inborn and does not change, whether that is LGBT or straight. There is no "choice" in the matter.

"Women and women and men and men can't make a baby" - This has nothing to do with which people make great parents. Are you saying there is something "wrong" with straight couples that are barren or decide not to have children? How cruel of you.
FYI there is IVF and adption in this day and age.

Since sexual orientation is inborn, the gender of the parents does NOT have an effect on the orientation of the children. It is likely, though, that children raised by LGBT parents would be more tolerant and open to the diversity of others, since they have seen the prejudice that their parents have had to go through from the likes of you.

Answer 5

It appears that you're operating under some misinformation about homosexuality. Let me clear some things up for you:

(1) Homosexuality is NOT contagious. If a gay couple raises a child of either sex, they CANNOT CATCH homosexuality from their parents. It's not a virus.

(2) Contrary to what most homophobics believe (especially those who are anti-homosexuality on religious bases), homosexuality is NOT a matter of choice. The only choice involved is whether to live as a homosexual when you are one, or to live as a heterosexual in misery. (Imagine if homosexuality were the norm, and in order to fit in or be considered a moral person, you had to have a romantic partnership with someone of the same sex, even though you knew that you were heterosexual. Is this a life you would want? Because this is the life that some people expect homosexuals to live.)

(3) A homosexual couple's inability to naturally have children doesn't make it wrong for them to be allowed to raise them. Some heterosexual couples are infertile. Would you say that they should not be allowed to raise children because they could not have them naturally? Probably not. Many a heterosexual, as you well know, is a terrible parent. Likewise, many a homosexual is an excellent parent. Sexual orientation does not affect a person's ability to raise a child well, either for better or for worse.

(For the record, just in case you might try to use this as grounds to discredit my answer, I am heterosexual, not homosexual.)

Answer 6

Oh, brother, here we go again. 'Being gay natually means that we give up the ability to reproduce offspring.' How do we 'reproduce' children?? Take them to Staples and have them bulk copied? For the record, did gay men get castrated and lesbians get hysterectomies when we came out of the closet?? NO, so, therefore, we are fully capable of being biological parents to children.

We choose the 'lifestyle that makes it impossible to have children'?? So does this mean that a hetero couple where the woman has gone through menopause should live as brother and sister?? Or if widowed, they should not seek out a love interest and not get married because of THEIR lifestyle??

Maybe if those breeders would make a stop at a drug store before doing the deed, there wouldn't be so many children in foster care. Or abused babies. Or DEAD babies!!!

Answer 7

What about the straight couples that chose not to have kids? Or for some medical reason can't? Should they not be allowed (aloud is incorrect) to raise children either? There is absolutely no correlation between gays raising children to be gay. Just because a person is gay doesn't mean they can't be good parents.

Answer 8

Once again another person of questionable education spouts off on matters he knows nothing about, what a shock.

Listen boy:

A. I didn't choose to be gay, I am gay, born and quite happy.

B. I did raise a son, on my own. Yes, he was mine by birth, and no I didn't have sex voluntarily. (I will not parade that part of my past for someone like you to denigrate.)

C. My son is straight, well adjusted, a doctor, married with three beautiful sons.

So you can kiss my a** for all I care.

Answer 9

Find a better question. this one gets asked about 50 times a day. Read some prior answer. Oh, by the way I'm gay and I have two kids. They are a lot more open minded then you.

Answer 10

Of course we should be able to have kids, just because we are not attracted to the opposite sex does not mean we don't want children. No to the second part question as well, the children will not be automatically gay, I have straight parents and I was born gay, so no that has nothing to do with it, you love whomever you love!