Just to set you straight: First of all, you state that a married man and woman should always have the priority when adopting a child.
Indeed.
Obviously, this is not your prerogative. If I owned an adoption agency, then it should be my choice. If I decided that a gay couple was the better choice, who are you to tell me different? The communistic mindset wants to engineer society based upon “studies”. Adoption is too important to rely on your one-size-fits-all pronouncements.
Not if you live in Florida. It’s illegal for homosexuals to adopt there.
No human, for instance, would ever claim that a gay couple cannot necessarily rear children better than all hetero couples.
Every child deserves to be raised in the home of a loving, married mother and father. Unfortunately, not all children will be fortunate to have this family structure, but this is the ideal and
superior environment for a child to grow. All other forms of family structure are in some way
inferior.
Are you going to cite studies at me. Fine, but I don’t have to believe or “abide by” the studies.
It’s common sense that a child raised with a loving married mother and father has the best environment in which to grow and reach their fullest potential. Every child needs a mother. Every child needs a father. A “female figure in their life” living outside the home is not equivalent to having a “mother”.
Are you going to use the force of government to persuade me? ------------------
Apparently, it’s legal to make these parameters. Look at Florida.
Secondly, I’m not surprised you didn’t cite the studies that refute your claim. The fact is that the vast consensus of all the studies shows that children of same-sex parents do as well as children whose parents are heterosexual in every way.
“A Difference Worth Embracing: Why Mother-Father Couples are Superior to Gay Couples When it Comes to Adoption”:
afajournal.org/2006/june/0606marriage.html
This is not surprising to anyone who has ever known more that a few gay families. I personally think that ALL the studies are unreliable because homosexuality in this country is still in a taboo status which skews the polling results.
“Dailey says there is a ‘well-established and growing body of evidence showing that both mothers and fathers provide
unique and irreplaceable contributions to the raising of children.’ That is, mothers and fathers parent differently.”
That being said, are you going to tell a family that they are sub-optimal if one of the partners is eccentric, or strange, or gay, bisexual, etc. Do only optimal families get your seal of approval?
“The difference between mother and father… is a difference worth embracing as a society. Kids deserve the best, and a mom and a dad best fit the bill.”
Doesn’t it make sense that someone reared by homos would be less likely to grow up being a bigot?
(T)here is evidence that kids raised in same-sex households are more likely to drift towards the sexual orientation of their gay parents.
Dr. Judith Stacey, a sociologist at the University of Southern California and a supporter of gay adoption, admitted in a 2002 Primetime Thursday (ABC) interview that research had shown that children raised by homosexual couples were more likely to have “either considered or had one same-sex experience” than children raised by heterosexuals.
The study to which Stacey referred (Fiona Tasker, Susan Golombok, “Adults Raised as Children in Lesbian Families,”
American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 4/95) actually found that 24% of children raised by lesbian mothers had “been involved in a same-gender sexual relationship,” while none of the kids who had been raised by heterosexuals reported such same-sex activity.
The rest is here:
afajournal.org/2006/june/0606marriage.html
