Gay adoption- yes or no - and why?

Dear Jessica,

Gay adoption- yes

Because children NEED parents that care about them.

Bound that, tell me why not? Find me a reason, bound homophobia, to disallow gays adopting children

pennyAnn

I useto say no but now I say why not? Many people who do end up adopting arent doing right by the kids. Like they cant really handle the parent aspect. Gay adoption is just like if 2 straight people were to adopt. I dont believe being straight or gay should matter at all. What needs to matter is if the child is in a great and loving home. I have many gay friends and they would all make and do make wonderful parents. So i think it should be find for a gay couple to raise and adopt children and while they grow up the chidren will more than likely be very open minded as well! and thats what we need more of!

particular certainly. Sexual orientation has no touching on how stable a parent somebody is. i think of somebody who grows up in a kinfolk with 2 dads or 2 mothers could in all probability be the main non judgmental individual who accepts people for who they're. that may not a undesirable element. Gissydoll: that's not going to confuse the youngster because of the fact it is going to look like the norm to the youngster. once you're born right into a kinfolk you agree for it because of the fact the norm. a new child accompanied as slightly one by potential of a gay couple won't understand any different so why could they be puzzled? not extra puzzled than a new child with right now mothers and fathers could be while they see a gay couple for the 1st time. Confusion purely comes while the mothers and fathers do not handle it wisely and do a stable activity of explaining that each and each physique families are different and that's ok.

If you mean "should gays adopt children", I say absolutely. There is no demonstrable difference in the parenting skills of gays vs heterosexual couples.

If anything, children of gay parents are likely to be more sensitive toward the feelings of others; they have witnessed the tragic way that some people in this country are treated, and likely watched the dignity with which their parents can handle the situations.

I've known many gay parents, and none of them have raised their children to be bigots. Their children are the sort who take people as people, and base their opinions of them on what they do and who they are rather than on who they love or what god they worship.

I wish that more straight people would raise children such as these.

To the critics that argue that homosexuality is a uniquely human condition, check out this article: http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1275591.html

I think children are better off with a mom and a dad, one man and one woman. However, I think a child is better off with a gay couple than being tossed around in foster care. So, if a heterosexual family or a single heterosexual parent is available, that is best. Gay adoption is not as good an alternative but should be available as a last resort.

I think there are so many kids needing homes that not allowing gays to adopt is wrong. If they investigate them and their lives and they are stable, good workers, been together for at least 5 yrs, and can support and nurture a child they should be allowed to adopt. I know a couple women that had a neighbor with four children who died of cancer. My friends took those children and had to fight to keep them even though the mother said she wanted them to adopt and raise the children. Finally they were able to adopt them and three of the four are in collage and the fourth is in the Army. If they hadn't been allowed to adopt them the four would most likely been separated and because of their age would not been good candidates for adoption. That would have meant foster care, and probably no contact with their siblings. Being someone who loves kids and can afford and nuture them should be the rule, not lifestyle.

I am going to say one thing here. People love to argue the 'perfect family unit'. K this is what the US posted for its last (2007) census. Half of common law couples living together with children get married. Of that half one in three marriages last longer than five years. So that's a 1 in 6 change for a happily hetero marriage here. So according to the logic of 'family unit' 5 out of 6 kids come from a broken home and have a failed family unit. Those are US government stats based on this logic. That's all I am saying.

no i dont think that is a god idea for the same sex wants to adopt a child cause as that child grows up there is going to bad comments on the parents and the child but you would want a mom and a dad cause a mom has that feeling about a mom or someone to talk to about sertain things.but a dad is just the same way. but it would be better to have parents the opposite sex. plus god wants everyone to get married with the oppposite sex.some people think it might be right to them.and not right to other people.but if your child is a boy and the parents are woman then that boy is going to talk like a girl. it just be wrong lets say your child wants oto have a birthday party and the kids see that your parents are the same sex that kid might feel embrassed.

Why not? Good parenting skills are learned regardless of sexual orientation. The adoption laws in the UK look at people's ability to provide a loving and supportive home and do not discriminate against people who are gay, lesbian, unmarried or even single. The laws rightly look after the best interests of the child. The argument that it is wrong because a child will be picked on because they have gay parents is disingenuous because this kind of attitude, justifying discrimination, perpetuates homophobia.

Gay people should be allowed to adopt.

The idea that we could convert a child into a homosexual is preposterous. In addition, it makes sense for us to be interviewed and carefully considered when we are trying to adopt. I don't think that we should automatically be awarded custody simply because we are gay.

When it comes right down to it, consider this: Its better for the children to have stable homes with people who love and care for them then it is for them to remain in the orphanage.