Will adopting a child if your homosexual affect the child in a bad way?

Some people will tell you yes, and some people will tell you no.

In my personal experience I grew up in a broken home, with fighting and separated parents and step siblings that I didn't get along with and a step father that I hated throughout most of my childhood. I feel that I would have been much happier with gay parents that got along who showed interest in my well being than in the messed up situation I was in.

I can't give you a yes or no answer to this and if all people thought about it they would be able to give the honest answer of 'I don't know and it depends on the child'.

One child will grow up well adjusted and another won't as it depends on the child's life experiences. For example a gay couple adopted a brother and sister. The brother didn't have any issues with this but for his sister it was a different as she had been abused by a man. Their grandparents wanted to raise the children but social services due to their ages and health issues even though their health issues were well controlled - angina and diabetes. When the grandparents found out they voiced their concerns to social services as the social workers knew the girl had been abused by a man. Social services didn't care and the couple still adopted both children despite it affecting the girl negatively.

The point is every case should be assessed for the individuel needs of the children. This includes cases of abuse as the child may be frightened by men or women. Homosexual / lesbian couples can be and are good parents, I have a friend who has been is a kesbian relationship for many years and they are raising a son. He is well adjusted and happy with his mothers plus he does have contact with his natural mother..

No it won't. I just took Child and Adolescent Development last semester, and research shows that children raised by loving homosexual couples show the same rate of adjustment as those raised by heterosexual couples.

Also (and all the anti-adoption people on this site are going to HATE this) research shows that adopted children do not display higher levels of maladjustment than non-adoptees. This of course depends on the age at which the child was adopted. Those adopted as infants generally fare much better overall than children adopted at an older age.

So much for the people who "dislike" infant adoption. It's not really about what you like, it's about what's best for the child- right?

There have been literally hundreds of studies done on this, and homosexual parents, adoptive and biological, have exactly the same outcomes as straight parents. Homosexuality of the parents does not affect children in any way. You're good to go, as long as you live in a place that allows it.

It shouldn't affect the child in a negative way. There are a million and one different kinds of families out there these days. However, that's not to say that you won't end up running into people who will look down on you and your family because it's not their idea of a healthy family.

Listen, all a child needs is love,to feel secure in that love,a gay couple can give that just as well as a straight couple,often even better because they may have had to fight for the right to have that child, there is still ignorance and bigotry in society, its getting better, but its still there,you just love, nuture and raise a child in a loving home,you encourage it in whatever it wants to do,you praise it when it does well at anything,you raise it to have an enquiring mind,to be kind to others, to be well mannered, and if you can do all that you will be an excellent parent,oh and don't forget bedtime stories!!

I think a life with loving parents (or parent) of either gender or orientation is far better than a life being thrown around foster care or living in a broken, abusive, or just plain bad home.

Adopting a child ALWAYS affects the child, no matter if the adopter is gay or straight.

The only good adoption is the adoption that does not take place because the mother is able and ready to look after her child, like nature intended.

Adoption is a means of finding families for children who have none and not a way to provide babies for people who have chosen a lifestyle that means they cannot conceive.

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Not unless the parents are abusive / neglectful, same thing as straight parents.

no, studies have been done. while it is different, it is far more acceptable and so the stigma that might have once existed no longer does.