What are your issues with gays adopting?

Question

What are your issues with gays adopting?
im writing a paper on gay adoption, in argument for it. i would like any comments on the topic pro or con. thanks!

Answer 1

Neutral. I don't, however, believe it is anyone's 'right' or 'entitlement' to have a child, whatever orientation you are

Answer 2

Here are my opinions:

I think in MOST cases, a two parent family is better than a single parent family (and I'm a single mother). I also think in MOST cases, a mother and a father is better than two mothers and two fathers.

Thus, when an agency or the government is looking to place a child, their first preference (all other things being equal)should be to two parent homes with both a mother and a father. Their second preference should be to ANY two parent home (meaning a homosexual couple, or perhaps a mother/grandmother combo). Lastly, they should consider a single parent placement.

If the government/agencies placed children in that way, then obviously homosexual couples (and single parents) would have a hard time adopting healthy white infants. However, there are plenty of other children, espescially those in foster care, that are crying out for a loving home of ANY kind. I think having two daddies or two mommies is preferable to being in the foster care system where a child might go through 10 different "homes" in two years! I also think a child in foster care is better off in an actual foster home than in a "group home" or "orphanage" situation. It sickened me a while back when Texas voted to not allow homosexuals to be foster parents. I went to the polls of course, but my fellow citizens outvoted me. Shockingly, it appears few of those good two-parent heterosexual homes stepped up to foster children instead, since the foster parent shortage is only growing. :-(

Anyway, that's my take on things.

Answer 3

We, my partner and I, have two sons. We had them via artificial insemination (which we did at home). We provide our sons with a loving, safe and protective family. We are complimented on our son's behavior and good manners. We do not abuse our boys. We take them to church every Sunday and teach them about God.

There have been studies by the psych people that say that children raised in a gay home are just as well or better than children raised in a hetero home.

We need to do what is best for our children. Not bow to what people think or judge or whatever. Let's protect our children. If children need a good, safe and loving home and two men or two women are able to provide that, well, more power to them.

Answer 4

All children deserve a loving family and safe environment. If a homosexual couple can provide that, then they should be allowed to adopt. For those who say that children need a mother and father, I disagree. There are many single parents out there who are successful at parenting and the child doesn't have a mother & a father in those cases. I feel the more children that love a child, the better - regardless of the person's sexual preference (just as long as it isn't kid they prefer)!

Answer 5

My opinion on the subject is this: There are hundreds of thousands of children in abusive foster care situations, and babies that are unwanted. There is a waiting list a mile long for parents to adopt, and I think it's ridiculous that parents in loving, monogomous relationship would be rejected from adopting simply because of their sexual preference. The statistics show that children who grow up in same-sex households aren't at any higher a risk for being gay themselves, and have a lower instance of violence and behavior problems.

Answer 6

No issues with gay adoption here.

Answer 7

I'm all for adoptions, Period. Whether they be to straights, gays, singles, better than abusive foster care or orphanages, or some backwards third world country asylum caring for them. WAKE UP CHINA and let those little girls go. AND all those other countries who are impeding the adoption of innocents.

Answer 8

Why not. If they can give the child a loving home then let them. There are so many kids out there that want a home and they cant bc of one thing or another so let them adopt. They are human like everyone else. Like I have said before, it is not our place to judge someone.

Answer 9

there are so many children out there that are looking for a loving home, i dont see what wrong with letting a loving gay couple adopt. the child would get loved in a straight couples house just like same sex partners

Answer 10

Depends on what state your from i guess. Look it doesn't matter if they are gay or not if they can love and take care of a child no-one wants more power to them. This is really a fight going on about this in the courts now. but no-one is better than the other.

Answer 11

i'm all for the adoption of children stuck in the foster care system to find a loving home.