Are there any laws that prevent gay people from adopting? Can they provide the same "stability" as "traditional" couples. Also, do you think it is easier to for gay couples to adopt a child or the same sex, or is that irrelevant? I am not talking about trying to "convert" the child, or anything like that.
Thank You, as always.
2007-10-22 05:52:38 · 61 answers · asked by Supercell 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I have heard of conflicting studies on whether children function better, worse, or the same in gay adoption.
2007-10-22 05:54:31 · update #1
For those that asked, I am NOT gay. I am married to a woman. I am a man. I have children.
Thank you for asking.
2007-10-22 06:01:52 · update #2
I think the ideal situation is a married heterosexual couple. That said, if that option is not available I would prefer that children be placed in a loving home, regardless of sexual orientation, rather than kept in the foster care system.......
2007-10-22 05:56:46 · answer #1 · answered by Brian 7 · 13⤊ 3⤋
1) In my opinion, income, stability, a "good home", are all determining factors in the eligibility of a couple to adopt. 2) There's no real way to answer that question as some will be affected positively, that is to the extent they learn a family is more than the "traditional" definition, but some can be affected negatively, that is to the extent that society might look down on the way the are raised. 3) For the most part. society looks down on gay couples as society looked down on interracial couples in the 1960s and beyond. 4) Were the right of gay couples to marry was affirmed by the United States, I believe it would grant the children an added measure of stability in their lives.
2016-05-24 04:23:55 · answer #2 · answered by velda 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course gay couples should be allowed to adopt. I dont believe that it makes life harder than if they had traditional parents. People always say that they will get teased or whatever but the sad truth is that a bully is always going to find something to tease them about anyway, such as their mom is fat, their dad is from a holler, they are poor, their aunt slept around in high school. Plus I think that all children deserve a loving and a normal functioning household to grow up in and I dont think having traditional parents help that out any. Traditional couples have children and do not always provide a healthy environment for children to grow up in and they are allowed to keep having children, so who are we to tell two people, whether they are gay or straight that they cannot provide the right kind of care and love that a child deserves. Adoption is not like picking something out at the store, it is a difficult, emotional and expensive process and I say that if a couple is willing to go through all that, then they are ready to provide a good home for a child.
2007-10-22 06:02:31 · answer #3 · answered by Stephie13 2 · 3⤊ 4⤋
Sure. And--let's say you were to jude fitness to parent a child based on the average statistics that show us the liklihood o f things like a broken home or child abuse.
Those statistics show that the religious right (evangelicals, fundies, whatever)--have higher rates of divorce/breakup--and of child abuse--than almost every other group in America.
Gay couples with children arem the groups with the lowest such rates.
So--if you are going by the EVIDENCE--its the "family values" bunch that should be banned from adopting.
2007-10-22 06:28:20 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
TO be honest I think if the home is stable and the parents do not have a criminal background then yes let them be parents. But yes some states do not let them adopted and their is also restrictions on same sex couples criminal history fro example will keep you from getting a child single pll never seem to be able to adopt it is a real disappointment because their are some many kid out that need good homes I would adopt but I can't afford all the lawyer fees and etc. It is nothing but a child grocery store.
2007-10-22 05:59:56 · answer #5 · answered by mommym00n 3 · 4⤊ 3⤋
Yes, I feel they should be able to adopt. No matter what you think of gays in general, you have to agree that there are no good avenues for raising children in this country outside of adoption. Children's social services are a joke. Foster care and orphanages overall are terrible. Yes, there are some very good foster families out there (my brother and his wife are one), but there are far more that aren't. When I see the children adopted by gay parents, I see happy, clean, normal children -- the kind of children I would want my children to have for friends. When I see children who have been raised by the state, I see unhappy, angry, confused children. Those who do make it with their feet on the ground and their heads on straight are rare.
There are a lot of questions I have about gay parenting, but quite honestly, I don't know enough about it to have any real feelings for or against on the issue. All I know is what I see.
2007-10-22 06:06:21 · answer #6 · answered by Emily Dew 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
This is a question that is so difficult to answer. Adoption has typically been within a "nuclear" family. Meaning a man and woman. Where as they both assume the legal responsibility for the child. In a "same sex" type marriage, the question is always asked"how will the child's sexuality be approached and nurtured?" In the event of a separation, who will retain custody of the child? Mother, mother, or father, father?
2007-10-22 06:02:45 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋
Yes...ANYONE who can give love and a stable home to a child should be allowed to adopt. What an adult does in the bedroom with another adult is NO ONES business but theirs...
They should be allowed to adopt a child of either sex....the sex of the potential adoptive parents should make NO difference...I know a lot of gay couples who make MUCH better parents than some of us straight folks having our own...I
In my opinion...you need a license to drive and even FISH for God's sake...you should also need a license to have kids...adopted or natural.....And NO....sexual orientation should NEVER be an issue...period.
And for the record, I am heterosexual female, aged 48,...married, no kids.
2007-10-22 06:01:19 · answer #8 · answered by Toots 6 · 4⤊ 3⤋
I do THINK that gay couples should be allowed to adopt. I have come to this conclusion because I've known boy gay male and lesbian female couples with children, and have also met the children when they were all grown up ... they are all bright and well socialized, and ALL of the ones I know were also HETEROSEXUAL but were more 'open' about 'gay marriages' in their own attitudes. I have NEVER heard of a gay or lesbian parent attempting to 'convert' the child, because they knew that they were gay long before any 'conversion' could be done on them, and many had been in situations where their parents ATTEMPTED to coerce them into being 'straight.'
2007-10-22 06:00:21 · answer #9 · answered by Kris L 7 · 5⤊ 4⤋
Yes, as long as a child is well loved, in a stable family environment, they should adopt. I've known several couples who have adopted, although they adopted from foreign contries. Irrelevent as far as the sex is concerned, unless there is a personal preferrence for the couple.
As far as stability...with the divorce rate as high as it is, I don't know how much more stable a traditional couple would be.
2007-10-22 05:58:46 · answer #10 · answered by Eleez 2 · 4⤊ 3⤋
He!l no they should not be allowed to adopt. A child needs a MOTHER AND A FATHER!!! Not two men that act like two moms. Get real people, stop letting people tell you that this crap is "OK".....kids are at sack here!
2007-10-22 08:35:23 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋