Do you think it's right that a gay couple can adopt children?

Question

What are your thoughts on this subject?

Sorry to those that answered this question before. I accidently deleted it when I wanted to add details. I'm blonde and a natural one at that LOL

I'm really glad to see everyone's answers. I just thought it would be a good topic to talk about because so many people have different opinions. So thanks to everyone for answering.

Answer 1

I'd rather kids be placed with straight couples, as there's proof that some children adopted by gays have a tendency to 'lean to the left' themselves, due to their environmental situation & upbringing..

Answer 2

Yes, I do think it is right for a gay/lesbian couple to adopt children! They are as much able to give love and care as a straight couple.
Actually I think that there are many straight couples who should not have children. A child is easily made, and not seldom just an accident. You do not need much intelligence or love to make a child.
With gay/lesbian couples, getting pregnant or getting a child does not 'just happen'. It is a well made choice and with that choice comes a lot of hassle. That is a good start for a child, the child is really wanted and comes out of a very conscious decision.

Did you know that gay marriages have a lower divorce rate then straight couples? I live in a country where gay marriage is legal.

I know a guy who is 18 years old now, going 19. He is raised by two lesbian mums. One of them got pregnant by a sperm donation, that's how they did it.
The guy is perfectly fine with his two mums and he always was. He has a girlfriend now for more then a year and a normal life like every boy from his age.

The problem is not gay couples adopting or having children. The problems that can occur are coming from society. The more society accepts the fact that gays and straight people are just the same, the less trouble a child will have to face on school or his/her neighbourhood.
Into my opinion, it should not be an issue at all. I also don't like the word 'gay marriage' to much. The word should just be 'marriage', no matter if it is between people from two genders or from equal genders.

We are all human and we are all equal. If two people are loving and caring, they should be able to raise a child. There are many children in this world who wish that they had loving and caring parents, no matter what their sexuallity is.

Answer 3

Yes. Absolutely

If hetero couples won't and don't take care of the biproduct of their sexual actions, someone should take care of these kids.

Maybe they will be abused by other children in school because they have 2 mothers or 2 fathers, but the failure of other parents to teach their children properly shouldn't deprive kids of having a home.

I also believe that man opened the door to create life other than the way God designed it. Artificial means of procreation allows same gender couples to have their own baby, the same as other couples. Actually, two women can have a baby that biologically thru DNA makes them both legally the child's mother.

The hetero community having all the automatic benefits and priveleges have long ago abandoned the responsibilities. Even the ones that raise their children turn a blind eye to those that don't and make excuses.

At least the kids have a chance at a loving home if adopted.

Answer 4

You know I see all these answers saying it is not right, it can influence the childs sexuality, they can be bullied in school, it may have a negative effect on the childs physicy, However I would like all you people to think about this. The worlds legal systems has these supposed checks on potential adoptive parents and then put innocent children in their care and then low and behold there is a heacy percentage od these 'STRAIGHT' couples who are child molesters, child murders, they hit and abuse these defencless children. So please regardless os sexual orientation means nothing when the safety of a child is concerened, it is will these people be good and loving enough to bring this child up right, not straight or gay or otherwise.

Answer 5

Yes of course it is right, when screened for suitability, just as heterosexual, transgendered etc are.

There are so many children in need of a loving home, suffering being shifted from children's homes and foster homes, never having a real sense of belonging and being loved. It is shameful to deny opportunities to these kids to have straight, gay, single responsible parents etc.

And religious institutions who are involved in adoption need to step back and separate their anti-gay beliefs from preventing more kids from getting supportive loving parents. Just as the law as made this happen in the UK, for instance. They should handover their adoption facilities if they are unwilling to do this, perhaps to an independent agency that they could fund with their £$billions that they have stockpiled. (perhaps ending child poverty fairly quickly with this money too, whilst they're at it)

Good luck with preventing futher deletions of your questions! Rob

Answer 6

Everyone seems to think we'll rape these kids. I mean if that's such a big worry, why not just give us kids of the opposite gender?

GLBT couples should be able to adopt because it's normal. We're not freaks.

I for instance am in a monogamous relationship, we're stable, happy, sort of like how families used to be in the 50s.

I want to have both biological and adopted children, it just seems like a normal step towards making a bigger family. The kids need stable homes, we have one, we can raise them to be happy and healthy adults just as well as anyone else.

So yeah, we should be allowed just because we're normal. You cannot judge someone's character based on something they cannot change, that's like judging all heterosexuals as evil because Hitler was evil. It makes no sense.

Adoption agencies will still make us go through all the paperwork and assessments. We still have to show we're stable etc, no matter what our sexuality.

So I don't see why we shouldn't be allowed, there's just no good reason.

Answer 7

NO!i think people who stray from what we all know is not normal behavior should not have the right to raise children ; however theres single dads these days and single moms so if the parenting is lets say doubled up meaning there being two to look over and care for the child why not. But these couples need to look at the effect it will have on the child and his peers making fun;growing up ridiculed but then again regardless we all do in a way dont we. so ide say why not!

Answer 8

Well to be 100% honest the fact that a person is gay doesn't make him or her someone who doesn't want to have children one day. I think that it is better to be loved even if it is a gay parent that loves a child than to grow up without ever feeling loved by someone. So yes I think that it is fine if a guy couple adopts a child but as I say as long as this child is being loved and brought up as best they can.

Answer 9

Yes. In actual fact a gay couple will probably have had to go through much much more than a hetrosexual couple and their partnership will be far more likely to be a strong and solid one. A child is lucky if it has two loving parents there for it, no matter what sex they are. I had a wonderful mother and my father abandoned his 3 kids, which caused me a lot of hurt and insecurity growing up and having to come to terms with the fact that he did not love or care for me. If things were different and my mother had of been gay and I had been lucky enough to have a second mother anyway near as great as my first, I would have taken the childhood bullying over the pain of rejection.

Answer 10

yes its right, why should we discriminate on the basis of sexuality? it's been proven that a homosexual couple make just as good parents as heteros.

children need a loving enviroment, whether its a single parent, straight parents, or gay/lesbian parents, its the love that counts.

is it fair/right that heterosexual couples can make children, then abuse them to death? for example the couple a few months ago who had a child, then killed it by stubbing ciggarettes all over its body? nice, and on top of that theres plenty of children already needy in this world.. isnt it selfish that you're just making more?

there is a chance of bullying yes, but that just means we need to work harder to root the homphobia out of schools, and nowadays everyone gets bullied in school, race, religion, gender, or just getting picked on. we need to tackle the gangs, yobs, and the general attitude of these rougish children, if we don't have children with homosexual parents, they'll target someone else.. the problem will still be there.

gays are humans too, we deserve equal rights. homphobia is the problem, not homosexuality. the exact same way that racism isn't the fault of black/white people, its the attitude. we can't blame women or men for gender discrimination, its the attitude to blame.

and it's been proven time and again that children raise in a homosexual family, are NO MORE LIKELY to be gay themselves, because it's a born trait, you're born that way, you dont just "change". however the child is more likely to be more tolerant and accepting of others, homosexuality, racism, religion, its a step towards curing our society of our age-old stereotypes and prejudices.

besides, any couple that goes through the adoption process is less likely to be abusive towards a child, as you eliminate the people who just don't want kids ( like heterosexuals and "accident" childs).

i agree with one of the above posters, as a homosexual i'm saddened to see that catholic agencies are going to close as they'll be forced to work equally with homosexuals due to new laws. they do a great job on finding kids good homes, and they pave the way, showing that although they dont accept homosexuality, they tolerate it, gay couples approaching these agencies aren't turned away blunty or abused, they are told where to go to adopt, and help with arrangements and things, that's the way everyone should act, not accepting, but tolerating.

Answer 11

I think it's fine.

1. children get bulleyed not matter what.

2. Homosexuals have a 9% chance of raising a gay child.
Heterosexuals have a 10% chance.

3. With millions of children in foster "care" how dare we prevent loving humans from adopting them?