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 Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 3:16 pm
Barking Inuyasha Homosexuals can adopt children in over half the states, including D.C. *Which close to where I live* I think that anyone should be allowed to adopt! There are too many children who don't have families. I plan on adopting instead of actually giving birth anyway. smile they can't anywhere near where I live. Probably because it's the south and you know....Southern Hospitality stare
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Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 3:30 pm
Isaac488 Barking Inuyasha Homosexuals can adopt children in over half the states, including D.C. *Which close to where I live* I think that anyone should be allowed to adopt! There are too many children who don't have families. I plan on adopting instead of actually giving birth anyway. smile they can't anywhere near where I live. Probably because it's the south and you know....Southern Hospitality stare Yeah.... I know. I used to live in NC. The ammount of ignorance and intolerance was quite annoying. It's not legal here in VA either. Most of the state where gay adoption's legal are up north, and on either coast.
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Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 4:28 pm
Well in my opinion, gays should be allowed to adopt anywhere because at least that child gets a loving and caring set of parents. I honestly don't get the whole deal with having to have both parents to have a healthy lifestyle because if a dad has the right approach, a girl can talk to him about anything she wants, and a boy can talk to his fathers or mothers as well. It's all about how the parents view those issues and how they present them to their kids. You have to get them to feel okay with talking to them.
Kids are always going to be ridiculed for something, but who better than to teach them how to deal with it than people who have faced ridicule all their lives? Learn from someone with experience and use them as your support when people get to you and try to hurt you.
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Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 9:11 pm
One of the reasons that some people are so against gay people from adopting is because they assume that the couple won't be together very long. I think that if the couple had endured all the crap the might've gotten for just being together, and stayed together, then they deserve to be able to adopt a child.
Goodness.... I'm probably going to post all over this thread... I'm pretty passionate about this subject. smile
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Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 5:33 pm
Children do fine in GBLT homes. The stuff about them "only raising gay kids" is junk because if thats true, then straight parents must only raise straight kids, which is definatly not true. I personally think people are born gay or straight or whatnot. How you are raised however, affects how you react to it and how you express your sexuality. i.e. a gay child raised in a more open home might feel safe to act upon his/her sexuality, while one raised in a more fundamentalist right-wing home might be afraid to do so.
We need more adoptive parents. There are alot of kids that are stuck in the foster system or in state care. If it was the same for gay couples to adopt as it is for straight couples, then there might be less kids in the system.
Children statistcally do better in actual permanent homes than in foster system or in state care.
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Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 5:46 pm
Another reason why some people believe that homosexuals shouldn't adopt is apparently they think the child would be molested by the parents or the parent's gay friends. *learned this through research paper*
This is crap, because statistically, most child molestors are straight.
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Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 6:24 pm
I am going to adopt dammit and there is nothing anyone can do to stop me
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Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 6:34 pm
_Gay4Girls_ I am going to adopt dammit and there is nothing anyone can do to stop me Hear, hear!
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Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 11:49 am
My plans are to help 17-20 year old's transition out of the system (i.e.:foster care). There are a few programs around the country, but definitely not enough.
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Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 1:34 pm
iMito Probably one of the less controversial issues is the topic of gay adoption. On one side, Gays are just as capable of raising a child as any other person. A sexual orientation should not limit any person's ability to raise a child and is not a determining factor for adoption. Single parents have always been allowed to adopt, assuming they were in a financial, emotional, mental, and physical safe environment. Gay adoption is no different. Plus, with the numerous amount of orphans that go without parents, they could use as many adoptions as possible. An untraditional family would be much better than a foster home. On the other side, both parents are needed to create a healthy relationship. Single parents and Gay parents shouldn't be allowed to adopt because it would create an unhealthy lifestyle and promote negative values. Gay adoption would also create room for ridicule in the child's life from peers and other influences. A helpful insight: http://www.religioustolerance.org/hom_pare6.htmWhat's your opinion?  As a puppet I must do as they command...
I think it's ignorant to say that a single parent/gay home is not as healthy as a "traditional" family home. There aren't any different values than a "traditional" home. Kids who grow up in an "nontraditional" home can grow up just as healthy and just as moral as those who grow up in "traditional" homes. I'm tired of stupid people thinking we are all sexual deviants, and that we don't have any morals or values.
BEING GAY DOES NOT MAKE US BAD PEOPLE.
What about all those children who are molested and beaten in so called "traditional" homes? I have never heard of gay families having those issues. I'm sure there are SOME out there, but I think it's less due to the fact that gay parents actually WANT kids, where as many kids conceived in "traditional families" are unplanned and sometimes unwanted.
It is my curse, it is my burden to bare.
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Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 11:10 pm
This shouldn't be controversial at all. There should be no discrimination. Homosexuals are absolutely NO DIFFERENT from anyone else!!! I don't even realize to myself that I'm gay in just my everyday life. I just feel like a normal person who happens to prefer the same sex. It's like discriminating on someone for their hair color. They can't help their haircolor. They can dye it, but that doesn't change its true color. I was born a brunette lesbian, and i don't want to change either.
Yes to adoption.
No to tollerance.
I don't want "tollerance", I want ACCEPTANCE!
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Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 11:09 am
I think homosexual parents deal with the same problems hetersexual parents do.
I do think that homosexuals should have to prove how long they've been together, somehow, and undergo the same procceedings a hetersexual couple would.
I think the orphange houses are way over packed now, and we can't discriminate, especially if gays are offering a good home.
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Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 4:31 pm
Unless they are unfit anyone who wants to adopt a child or two or three or whatever should always be able to adopt and it should not be difficult to do. Any decent person who wants to adopt and give a child a home is better than foster care.
nearly everything you hear about the foster care system says there are too many kids and not enough homes.
In fact everyone who can and wants to should be allowed to adopt, to get them out of the system and into a loving home
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Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 1:40 pm
infamousredflag Gay people should not have the right to adopt because obviously every straight person makes a good parent for the sole reason that they are straight. And it's also very apparent that because gay people are gay, any child they raise will be gay, just as any child raised by straight people will turn out to be straight. Gays are inexperienced in dealing with teasing and bullying because they've never experienced any of it, so when their kid comes home crying they won't know how that kid feels or have the faintest notion what to say to make that kid feel better. And it's preferable to shift from unloving home to unloving home and possibly become emotionally scarred when the alternative is a loving couple who can't legally get married in most places. And that is why gay people cannot adopt children! Fear my unbeatable logic! [For those of you who took offense or actually believed any of that, please note that sarcasm is better delivered and received when the people experiencing it can hear each other's voices, but may still be used on the Internet if you put a warning up.] 'Good parents because they're straight'? That's ludicrous. Have you ever even watched the news? Hundreds of thousands of children are beaten, starved, abused (both mentally and physically) by their parents. I think the scales even out. Where straight parents lack, gay parents may pick up. At least half of the people who adopt children are gay. Without them, hundreds of thousands of children would live in orphanages or bounce around the foster care system. My mother was one of those children, and she had absolutely nothing good to say about it. It isn't fun. And I think, If I were her, I would rather be adopted by a nice gay or lesbian couple than bounce from place to place.
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Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 1:42 pm
Barking Inuyasha _Gay4Girls_ I am going to adopt dammit and there is nothing anyone can do to stop me Hear, hear! Woot Woot! blaugh
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