Adoptions by Homosexuals: Do You Approve?

[jeffreedy789]

our friend ja3712 posted:

Froster homes or “group homes” are ran by “heterosexuals” who love money from the government.

surely you don’t seriously suggest that every foster home out there is run by people who ‘love money from the gov’… surely you admit that there might be a few that actually care about kids. like my parents, for example, who worked for and ran foster homes for about 10 years.

you have to realize, js3712, that our ‘pursuit of happiness’ DOES have limits. would you endorse the idea of a pedophile adopting kids?

you might also consider the idea that some things are simply true, no matter what century we live in. truths don’t become less true simply because they go out of style - they are absolutes. we’re not talking about gender roles as portrayed in 50’s sitcoms, where the woman had to stay at home and stay barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen while the man put food on the table. certainly the role of provider can be met by women.

but surely you see that there are certain things than men do better by nature and certain things women do better? can you not think of a single thing that men do better than women?

 

[Lisa_N]

jeffreedy789:

our friend ja3712 posted:

surely you don’t seriously suggest that every foster home out there is run by people who ‘love money from the gov’… surely you admit that there might be a few that actually care about kids. like my parents, for example, who worked for and ran foster homes for about 10 years.

Very true. If you think about what payment foster parents receive for 24/7 care, it is probably about two cents an hour. Further the foster parents are very limited as to how they may discipline the children. I am a volunteer for an organization that advocates for children who are in foster care or group homes. The foster parents are quitting in droves because not only is the payment insufficient but the children are more troubled, more complicated, and sadly more violent now than in the past. Babies born drug affected may have problems for the rest of their lives. Further some of the children have lived with so many years of abuse that their behavior patterns are almost impossible to change.

As one foster mom said, the payment might cover the food the child eats but it doesn’t pay for the chair he threw out of a window or pay for new wallpaper when a child smears feces on the wall. I think the vast majority of foster parents are candidates for sainthood.

Lisa N

 

[chevalier]

I don’t want people raised into the gay lifestyle. No adoption by homosexuals, please. That said, homosexual adoption is better than children dying from hunger and cold on the street, but that’s about it.

 

[EmDoogle5]

Lisa N:

This is absolutely THE thing that gets my hackles up with respect to the homosexual agenda. There absolutely NO DOUBT that the best place for a child is with a mother and father in a stable married relationship. PERIOD. We have seen the utter havoc created by the explosion in single mothers and absent fathers. Homosexual adoptions by definition subject a child to no mother or no father. Two mommies or two daddies do no make up for the lack of influence of both sexes.

Further the children that are often available for adoption are fragile children who’ve suffered neglect or abuse. Add to that confusion about sexuality, sex roles, male/female interaction and I think it’s a recipe for some very disturbed young people.

Sadly with respect to males adoping males, there have been several stories in our newspapers about these boys being used for sexual pleasure. I realize this is anecdotal but it seems particularly egregious to put a fragile child into a kind of relationship that is known to be unstable. I am less concerned about sexual abuse by female homosexuals because most abusers are male. But again this subjects the child to a life without a father and is deterimental to both boys and girls.

Excuse my language but that is complete ****. I am friends with a number of people who have grown up in homosexual households- and they are better people because of it. The number of parents or the sex of those parents do not matter… it is the love and teaching of that/those parent(s) that matters.
And you claim about homosexual males adopting for sexual pleasure is **** as well. The proof you may or may not have for that I can assume is a small number. THAT act is wrong, but not the act of homosexuality in a caring relationship.

The majority of children that grow up in single parent or gay parent households are fine. So go take your generalizations elsewhere.

 

[fix]

EmDoogle5:

Excuse my language but that is complete ****. I am friends with a number of people who have grown up in homosexual households- and they are better people because of it. The number of parents or the sex of those parents do not matter… it is the love and teaching of that/those parent(s) that matters.
And you claim about homosexual males adopting for sexual pleasure is **** as well. The proof you may or may not have for that I can assume is a small number. THAT act is wrong, but not the act of homosexuality in a caring relationship.

The majority of children that grow up in single parent or gay parent households are fine. So go take your generalizations elsewhere.

Homosexuals have no right to adopt and raise children. That is doing violence to these poor kids. Love must be properly defined. Love is not emotionalism, it is not error, it is not self serving. Authentic love is wanting and helping another to reach heaven. The measure of love is sacrfice. Exposing children to grave sin and scandal is evil and should never be tolerated.

 

[fix]

chevalier:

I don’t want people raised into the gay lifestyle. No adoption by homosexuals, please. That said, homosexual adoption is better than children dying from hunger and cold on the street, but that’s about it.

Do you have evidence the Church teaches such things? You offer a false choice. Homosexual “couples” have no right to adopt and raise childen.

 

[Ceili]

I personally don’t like to see same sex marriages adopt any child. I guess I’m bent on the mom-dad scenario and normalcy,sorry!