Are you opposed to gay people adopting kids? (READ INSIDE)?

Question

There are children in America who need good homes. However some people do not want to allow same sex couples to adopt these children. I would like to know what you expect to happen to this children?

Before you answer think long and hard - have you adopted a child, would you adopt a child?

If you are not part of the solution you are part of the problem.

Answer 1

I support gay marriage and gay adoption. I also know both gays and lesbians that adopted as single parents. The only bi-sexual I know that adopted closets the issue of hetero because she feels she would be discriminated against, so she presents as strictly lesbian. Interesting, huh? And I know one transgendered person, now a woman, that works at the Salvation Army Homeless Shelter and is also a foster parent.

You make a point that is unfortunately all too true. Those that judge often are not versed on the single issue much less on the larger picture.

Gay ppls have really stepped up for special needs, older children and sibling adoptions (instead of splitting them up) which outshines the bulk of even other adopting parents. That sets an example for everyone.

To answer your question, I have not adopted, but I volunteer work with homeless, disadvantage, orphaned and special needs children and have helped as many as I can get into permanent families when needed ... without discrimination. A healthy loving home is a healthy loving home.

Answer 2

I think that is a great question and one which I have asked many people.

Many hard core anti-abortion and anti-gay adoption people say they wouldn't really ever adoption children. They only want to raise their own little brats. And even if you get one to say they would adopt then they add on "only if I couldn't have kids of my own" or "only a baby because those older kids are messed up" and other such junk.

These children need good, loving homes and there are so many of them. Why not let someone who could care for a child or children let them? Because you don't like gay people? Who are you to judge? Gay people are just like straight people, some good some bad, yet they would make equally as good parents, or better.

Answer 3

Well frankly, I am a little tired of people putting a spin on things that if the gay parent does this or the straight parent does that, then this would happen. Bottom line if the parent did what was in the best interest of the child, then there would be no need for someone else to take, adopt and raise the child unless the parent realized that it would be better for the child if someone else did. Not because the parent was gay or straight, but because the parent couldn't give the child all the things that parent thought the child deserves

Answer 4

I'm all for people that want to adopt... There is a lot of love that a some couples (gay or straight) can offer a child.

its is very frustrating to me to see that gays are being denied the right to adopt. There is no evidence that the the gay parents would make the child gay or emotionally unstable. But still people say its bad for the child.

Answer 5

I have not adopted children, but raised two of my own sons. In fact, my lover and I raised them. I have no idea what I did wrong, but both are straight...there is no accounting for taste, and the "choices" we make in life. Trust me, my sons had every advantage, could date whomever they wanted, and while both experimented, as most teens do, both were straight..sad, but true.
The Fundamentalists and extreme right keep saying that Gays adopt to creat more Gays....that we have an "agenda." Funny, I am so old, the "the hills" comes to mind. I have been out since 29, and highly involved with Gays and issues. I have yet to hear just what this "agenda" is, for no one else seems to know anything about it either. My sons are living proof that no matter how a child is raised, his sexuality is set long before birth. Gays, at least according to sociologists, are better parents, on the average, than straights ... they do not take the right of parenting as "for granted." The children that gays raise do better in school, have about the same Gay/Straight ratio as the general population, are successful in life, and percentage wise, send many more children through college than the average straight. All arguments against Gay adoption are made to fit a very real agenda, that of the Fundamentalists, not Gay. And yes, these lunatics are the last to save a child by raising it, and the first to condemn abortion and Gays as parents....strange, sad, but true...some people actually have NO goodness in their heart.

Answer 6

i would adopt a children i am gay and wa sraised in a straight family, and i know that sexual orientation is the way we come, and adopting a children will teach him familyvalues and in the end he will know what he likes the best, i think gay couples should be allowed to adopt.

Answer 7

No, no need to deal in absolutes, here.

I agree that people can adopt, regardless of sexual orientation. There have been no studies that show that a homosexual couple having a child will increase it's chance of being a homosexual. Two of my good friends have two mothers, they lead very normal, happy lives and both are straight.

I probably need to adopt a child in the future, and I would hate to be denied that sort of happiness simply because of a preference I have.

Answer 8

Anyone who can provide a good loving home to a child and is willing to adopt a child who needs a home should be allowed to do so no matter who they are in love with.

Answer 9

I have 2 children and am looking at adopting another. I'm about as gay as they come, My son is crazy about women and my daughter is crazy about men. I think the next kid will just like my other kids, Happy, healthy, and have an appreciation of all of God's creatures.

Answer 10

It has been proven in a study that children that have same sex parents or kids that are adopted by same sex parents become 100% fine and thay are less likely to be sexual abused or molested by there same sex parents