Could your kids be given to 'gay' parents?

Gays who adopt are typically professional, well educated, double income families, they aren't pedophiles or perverts. They are perfectly capable of raising a child better than some bigoted asshat who allows their child to bully kids at school just because they aren't quite as "lucky".

Nearly One Quarter of Foster Care Children Are Waiting for Adoptive Families
In 1999, the latest year for which totals have been finalized, there were about 581,000 children in foster care in the United States.[1] Twenty-two percent of these children -- about 127,000 kids -- were available for adoption.[2]

Many Children Spend Years in Foster Care
Almost 70 percent of the children waiting to be adopted had been in continuous foster care for two years or more; twenty-five percent for five years or more.[15]

Many More Adoptive Homes Needed
Even with the recent increases in adoptions from foster care, the number of children waiting for adoption on September 30, 1999 was more than two-and-a-half times the number of children adopted during that year.[16]

I am just saying the homosexual port can never be the same as a heterosexual port of equal quality, since a homophobic society has to be dealt with by a child adopted by homosexuals.

This kind of thinking enshrines bigotry such as homophobia and racism under a paltry guise of concern for the welfare of the child.

Being allowed to raise a child, genetically connected to us or not, is a privilege not a right. Society can remove the privilege if cause is shown. I suspect that gender and sexual identity become more difficult to teach in a home that is run by two gay adults who are in a relationship. If this can be proven as fact by science then society has every right to refuse to allow gays to raise children. I doubt that most countries would do that though.

Being allowed to raise a child, genetically connected to us or not, is a privilege not a right. Society can remove the privilege if cause is shown. I suspect that gender and sexual identity become more difficult to teach in a home that is run by two gay adults who are in a relationship. If this can be proven as fact by science then society has every right to refuse to allow gays to raise children. I doubt that most countries would do that though.

hawkeye10 wrote:

Being allowed to raise a child, genetically connected to us or not, is a privilege not a right. Society can remove the privilege if cause is shown. I suspect that gender and sexual identity become more difficult to teach in a home that is run by two gay adults who are in a relationship. If this can be proven as fact by science then society has every right to refuse to allow gays to raise children. I doubt that most countries would do that though.

Only if you feel that gender and sexual identity differing from the norm is a bad thing; otherwise, what's the harm?

Kids have plenty of ways to get screwed up regardless of who the parents are....

Cycloptichorn

In part II, this article argues that some courts and most law review commentators have not paid sufficient attention to the potential impact of legalizing same-sex marriage and homosexual parenting on children. Part III urges great care and caution in relying upon social science studies about the effects of homosexual parenting on children because serious methodological and analytical flaws compromise the reliability and predictability of most of the studies. Part IVnotes that there is substantial evidence to support the value to children of being raised by two parents, one male and one female, and that even in the studies promoting homosexual parentingthere is some evidence of potential harm to children. Part V reviews and critiques the case law,noting the many ways cases may vary because of the significantly diverse legal and factual contexts in which the issues arise. It describes the connection and disjunction between same-sex marriage and the homosexual parenting issues. Part VI concludes the article by suggesting the use of a rebuttable presumption to protect the well-being of children in homosexual parentingdisputes.
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Is everyone who adopts from foster care "utilizing" children or only homosexuals?

when a heterosexual couple is childless, it is caused by a medical condition.

I'm just trying to get clear on terms so that we're speaking the same language.

My husband and I are perfectly capable of concieving a child but we chose not to. Then, to be blunt and quick, a child was abandoned in our home while we were babysitting. His parents never came back to get him. Even then, it took four years and lots of money for us to be able to adopt him but we did.

Are we "utilizing" our son to be "normal"?

Foofie wrote:

when a heterosexual couple is childless, it is caused by a medical condition.

you live with a very limited mind

bit of a shame

I haven't read the thread. Just want to say, kids are rarely given. The prospective new parents earn them.