Should Homosexuals be allowed to adopt children?

Question

What is the need to advertise your sexuality by marching down the street like they do in Manchester?

Answer 1

Yes.
When a group of people has been discriminated against they tend to react with hostility. Parading is a socially acceptable way to react.

Answer 2

They like to rear it so why shouldn't they be allowed to adopt children, also why shouldn't white people be allowed to adopt children from a different ethnic background, but generally speaking it is not allowed.Finally why is it that when people express an opinion against homosexuality, they are abused as bigoted morons or uneducated . Everyone is entitled to their opinion without being subject to abuse.Overt displays of sexual behaviour are distasteful whatever the orientation of the persons involved.

Answer 3

I believe that all children should be put into the safest possible environments. If that means a homosexual couple, then so be it.

However,

I think preference should always be given to a stable heterosexual couple. A child in a gay household faces the same problems as one in a single-parent household. God-bless them.....I know that many single parents break their backs to make up for the missing parent, but a mother can not psychologically replace a father and vice versa. A male, no matter how feminine, is not equivalent to a mother and a female, no matter how butch, is not equivalent to a father.

Answer 4

Definitely they should be allowed to adopt, providing the pass the same screening process as heterosexual couples wishing to adopt. There is no reason why a gay couple cannot provide a stable, loving and caring family for a child desperately in need of one.

As for marching down the street - why not? They harm no-one (unlike the racist marches of the 1970's and 1980's) and are celebrating their lives.

Answer 5

As one of 8 - 6 brothers and a sister - raised by a homosexual parent, I can say that homosexual parents are no better or worse than the general population.

Not one of us "turned Qu**r" (to quote one of the uneducated respondents here), all married and had children who turned out just fine, too....

Slightly less than 1/3 of American children grow up in a home with only one parent....so the "two parent - mother and father" arguement doesn't hold water.

A good parent is a good parent. Sexual orientation has nothing to do with it.

I am amazed at how little most of these respondents know about homosexuality and the adoption process for them.

Most are just "knee-jerk" reactions to a situation they find fearful. Fear and ignorance breeds discrimination.......all kinds.

Answer 6

The "pro-life" people who don't think gays should be able to adopt a child and give him a loving home are hypocrites of the highest order. There are so many children who need homes and yet they would deny those children the opportunity to have one. There is some thing really wrong with their line of thinking. To answer your question, Yes.

Answer 7

Why not? They can and do already raise children of their own. Homosexuals are just as capable of reproducing as the rest of us, although they might need, in the case of lesbians, the assistance of a sperm donor, or in the case of gay men, either a surrogate or a woman married to or having a child by a homosexual man. What is the difference between adopting children and caring for your own children?

Answer 8

They have the same right has any other loving couple to adopt children.

Answer 9

Of course they should. It's long ago been determined by every unbiased child agency, at least in the United States, that there is no detriment to a homosexual couple raising children. They have found to be equal to their peers in every way, from performance in school to social adjustment. Below is a list of those agencies, feel free to check them out. I don't know about marches in Manchester, but here the parades that gay people have every year aren't much different than the Mardi Gras or Spring Break here - at which both heterosexuals celebrate their own sexuality with complete abandon.

http://www.apa.org/pi/lgbc/publications/justthefacts.html

American Academy of Pediatrics
American Counseling Association
American Association of School Administrators
American Federation of Teachers
American School Health Association
Interfaith Alliance Foundation
National Association of School Psychologists
National Association of Social Workers
National Education Association
The American Psychiatric Association

The American Psychoanalytic Association
http://www.apsa-co.org/ctf/cgli/position.htm

Answer 10

Children should be brought up with both a mother AND a father - hopefully loving and good role models.

My father died when I was very young and I only had my mother. It didn't feel right just her and me in the house and I used to yearn for male relatives and a male perspective on life!

I now have a husband and two boys of my own, so I have plenty of men around now.

Homosexuals can probably make adequate parents, but most kids will feel cheated out of the parent of the missing sex.