Is Homosexual Adoption Right? (ENDS 24/7/11)

[Richie]

I didn't mean it as though a mother doesn't care, althought some don't - and of course I respect your opinion. It's just the fact that homosexual people are being treated so much differently, yet they are so alike. Why's it so wrong that they want to be normal and want to have a child, but can't because they like the same sex? It's not their fault!

News flash: Men don't have vaginas

Na but seriously, one thing I hate about this thread is people pull out the homophobic card. The only problem I have with gay people raising children and I hope this is the last time I have to say it, children need both role models - My opinion.

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I have discussed it many times with her and she feels she had no "sense of loss" whatsoever.

Well that's fair enough but as I said that is one person out of millions, people have different emotions. I know a lot of people who have gay parents and just say they're happy both their parents are male / female because they don't want to hurt their feelings. I'm sure gay people would do a great job raising children, I'm not doubting that.

[Technologic]

News flash: Men don't have vaginas

Na but seriously, one thing I hate about this thread is people pull out the homophobic card. The only problem I have with gay people raising children and I hope this is the last time I have to say it, children need both role models - My opinion.

I can totally see where you're coming from but the way I view it is a home is a home, adoption rates have crashed since the financial crisis so any home is better than being tossed back and forth between temporary homes during your childhood

[Tom]

I can totally see where you're coming from but the way I view it is a home is a home, adoption rates have crashed since the financial crisis so any home is better than being tossed back and forth between temporary homes during your childhood

I agree with this

News flash: Men don't have vaginas

Na but seriously, one thing I hate about this thread is people pull out the homophobic card. The only problem I have with gay people raising children and I hope this is the last time I have to say it, children need both role models - My opinion.

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Well that's fair enough but as I said that is one person out of millions, people have different emotions. I know a lot of people who have gay parents and just say they're happy both their parents are male / female because they don't want to hurt their feelings. I'm sure gay people would do a great job raising children, I'm not doubting that.

Obviously I'm not dis-respecting your views or anything and if I'm honest this thread could actually, maybe, cause some arguments. I know it's your opinion and I'm glad you have an opinion on this - but I still think it's unfair how, because we want to raise a child, we can't because we're gay. We can't change it? I know what you're saying about they may need both role models, but at the end of the day, a home is a home like Technologic said. As long as you're brought up and happy it's okay? There's plenty of other females in the world to look up too.

[ifuseekamy]

If a traditional nuclear family is so great then they wouldn't be producing homosexual children :S

[Tom]

If a traditional nuclear family is so great then they wouldn't be producing homosexual children :S

Nice comment....

If a nuclear family is so "great" - doesn't mean they won't produce a homosexual baby :S

[GommeInc]

Personally, if the parents are in a committed relationship and are committed to looking after a child, I have nothing wrong with it. But, I can see problems with it like FlyingJesus mentioned above - the child will be bullied -especially when you consider our education system and the way children act these days would give them a field day in the name calling department, especially when you get this air of "unnaturality" about it - the two same sex parents couldn't of dropped that child and naturally the majority of children in a classroom would come from a mother and father, in some respect - it's just how children understand things, and grow up.

It's a shame, because the couples could make excellent adoptive parents, like any adoptive parents, but there's no support for it especially when young children will not understand and there won't be much disciplinary action. Teachers can't project views that may confuse children and the parents of these children may not be comfortable. It's life

[Areva]

I personally feel as a Gay guy that no one can can play a role of a Mother; therefore I do believe in heterosexual relationships preferred.

I believe anyone can raise kids, providing they are educated and in a stable environment, If its a choice that a child lives in care or with two loving women or men. I think that the better option than a life in care.

I guess anyone who adopts gets a rep in my book, straight, lesbian & transexual. If you adopt and give a stable environment and change a child life for the good, your cool in my book.

Although, I don't think anyone can take a role of a Mother figure, Dad's & Mom's are very very different.

[FlyingJesus]

But, I can see problems with it like FlyingJesus mentioned above - the child will be bullied

I was actually saying that bullying will happen regardless of how many mums and dads a child has, because there's always something to divide us. Humans aren't all equal and we're pretty good at picking up on differences and using them against each other. My point about it being a source of ammo was that it would be used as an excuse to bully that child, but not the underlying reason, and is therefore only as directly damaging as having a child with glasses or a lisp. Bullies bully, victims are victimised. If there's nothing actually wrong with the victim (other than having a victim personality) then the bully will make something up anyway, so you're not saving kids from bullying by ensuring that they have a mother and father

Although, I don't think anyone can take a role of a Mother figure, Dad's & Mom's are very very different.

Gender roles are becoming increasingly blurred as we go on, and even regardless of that it's very much possible for a man to have mothering instincts just as it's possible for females to have no such instinct whatsoever

[Rectitudinous]

Sometimes a gay couple can adopt a child and give them a life they never had, the love they never had from the heterosexual couple that gave birth to them. Which is also the reason why the child is being adopted. It should be allowed, because as it is there are so many troubled teens, and most of it's because one of the parents weren't there from birth, or because none of them were there at all.
I had this exact discussion in my health class.

[Tom]

I personally feel as a Gay guy that no one can can play a role of a Mother; therefore I do believe in heterosexual relationships preferred.

I believe anyone can raise kids, providing they are educated and in a stable environment, If its a choice that a child lives in care or with two loving women or men. I think that the better option than a life in care.

I guess anyone who adopts gets a rep in my book, straight, lesbian & transexual. If you adopt and give a stable environment and change a child life for the good, your cool in my book.

Although, I don't think anyone can take a role of a Mother figure, Dad's & Mom's are very very different.

It's not the fact of playing the role of the Mother. If you love the child and care for the child, then you're just like a mother - I've stated a lot as long as the child is having a good life - no-one should be worried!