Standard Procr for Gay Coupl Lookg to Adopt

Contents:

• GAYS SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO ADOPT CHILDREN, A THIRD OF PEOPLE BELIEVE
• DEBATE: SHOULD GAY COUPL BE ALLOWED TO ADOPT?
• LBIANS, GAYS N ADOPT CHILDREN
• SECTN 2: LONG-TERM VIEWS OF HOMOSEXUALY, GAY MARRIAGE AND ADOPTN
• RSIA ENACTS ANTI-GAY ADOPTN BAN
• GALLUP: MAJORY BELIEVE GAYS CAN ADOPT BUT NOT LEAD BOY SUTS
• PUT SIGNS LAW BANNG GAY UPL OM ADOPTG
• PROCR FOR GAY COUPL LOOKG TO ADOPT
• OUR PARENTS ARE GAY. ARE OUR FAI GOOD ENOUGH FOR THE SUPREME COURT?

GAYS SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO ADOPT CHILDREN, A THIRD OF PEOPLE BELIEVE

Jt bee two homosexuals were able to raise a healthy, well-adjted child (assumg they did), that don’t mean homosexual upl – as a group – make the bt parents. The real qutn is whether a child who needs to be adopted is bt served by a heterosexual uple or a homosexual uple – all thgs beg equal. The qutn foc on the needs of the child, not the wants of homosexuals who are polilly motivated to normalize same-sex marriage and parentg.

For to work, the state mt refe marriage, create parentage laws for homosexual upl, and ny the unique role that mothers and fathers play.

More than a third of people thk that sgle people and gay upl should not be allowed to adopt children, acrdg to a report published than three-quarters - 87 per cent - of those who object said they thk children need a male and a female role mol.

DEBATE: SHOULD GAY COUPL BE ALLOWED TO ADOPT?

High profile: celebry gay uple David Furnish and Elton John - a third of people thk gays should not be able to adopt And 76 per cent said would lead to the breakdown of the tradnal fay and would not be the bt terts of the were more likely than women to thk a male gay uple should not adopt. As he nsirs the se, Judge Bernard Friedman on Thursday enuraged two Detro-area lbians who are raisg three children to file a legal challenge to Michigan ban on gay marriage.

LBIANS, GAYS N ADOPT CHILDREN

Caller Leroy, om Detro, said he believe 's better that abandoned children rema parent-ls rather than beg adopted and raised by a gay uple.

"It's easy to take an isolated cint and say this is our example, but the realy is a lot of those kids that e om those gay, pecially those lbian relatnships, have a lot of behavral problems school, they act out, and they e a lot of disturbanc, " he said. Johannburg - Lbian judge Anne-Marie Vos said she was "ecstatic" after the Constutnal Court led on Tuday that gays and lbians uld jotly adopt children.

SECTN 2: LONG-TERM VIEWS OF HOMOSEXUALY, GAY MARRIAGE AND ADOPTN

Both sis acknowledge that the evince on how well kids fare wh gay parents as opposed to straight on is plete and don’t yet show big differenc. Acrdg to Ken Connor, print of the Fay Rearch Council, gays shouldn’t be allowed to raise kids—as they have the studi reported so far—bee “children are not guea pigs and should not be ed as pawns some grand social experiment. Acrdg to Connor, “The Internatnal Journal of Epimlogy reported that among homosexuals, there is an creased cince of suici, prsn, multiple sexual partners, and domtic vlence pared to the heterosexual populatn.

” From this, Connor nclus that “problems enmic to the homosexual liftyle make the relatnships herently unstable, and th unsuable for the raisg of children. Takg this approach, the AAP c “evince that children wh parents who are homosexual n have the same advantag and the same expectatns for health, adjtment, and velopment as n children whose parents are heterosexual. Connor says studi show that “sexual inty nfn is mon among children raised by gay parents” and that “children of lbians are ls likely to f tradnal genr rol.

RSIA ENACTS ANTI-GAY ADOPTN BAN

” The AAP ni the “inty nfn” charge but acknowledg that “men and women who had lbian mothers were slightly more likely to nsir the possibily of havg a same-sex partner, and more of them had been volved at least a brief relatnship wh someone of the same sex, ” though this didn’t change the proportn who nsired themselv gay as adults.

At the other extreme is the AAP’s psdoscientific liberalism, which holds that “obtag donor sperm or arrangg for a surrogate mother”—like “fdg an acceptg adoptn agency” or “nontg emotnal pa and rtrictns imposed by heterosexism”—is jt another “challenge” facg gays who want to be parents. ” CWA print Sandy Rs adds, “Tellg the public that a homosexual uple n raise a child as effectively as a married uple is on par wh tellg them that a sgle mom provis as plete parentg as a mom-and-dad uple.

GALLUP: MAJORY BELIEVE GAYS CAN ADOPT BUT NOT LEAD BOY SUTS

“Bee most children whose parents are gay or lbian have experienced the divorce of their blogic parents, their subsequent psychologic velopment has to be unrstood that ntext, ” says the AAP. To dodge that dilemma, the media and gay adoptn advot foc on the lns of kids whose alternative to beg adopted by a well-off gay uple is far worse than beg adopted by a well-off straight uple.

They profile gay upl who have taken orphans, sick or abed children, and Asian kids for whom adoptive parents are hard to fd.

PUT SIGNS LAW BANNG GAY UPL OM ADOPTG

Connor says society prohibs gay marriage and gay adoptn bee gays are more prone to promiscuy, prsn, dg abe, and suici, and ls likely to sta stable relatnships than straights are. And what if the emotnal problems that afflict kids wh gay parents are ed not by havg gay parents, but by society’s taboo agast gay parenthood? ” In other words, those who oppose legalizatn of gay marriage and adoptn thereby perpetuate the stabily they ce as grounds for nyg gays the right to marry and adopt.

PROCR FOR GAY COUPL LOOKG TO ADOPT

If havg gay parents is better than beg an orphanage but not as good as havg straight parents, maybe gays should be allowed to adopt only kids who are wards of the state, as is done New Jersey.

If gay adoptns should be banned bee kids of gays have the same problems as kids of divorced people, maybe a divorcee’s new hband shouldn’t have any more parental rights over her child than a new lbian partner would. Alternatively, if the emotnal and fancial health of a hoehold renrs s nfiguratn irrelevant to s parental suabily, maybe threom (a surrogate/donor mom and two gay men) or foursom (blogil mom, blogil dad, and each parent’s gay partner) should be allowed to adopt kids.

Or maybe, if Connor is right that New Jersey’s first gay adoptn was wrong bee “both adoptive parents died om AIDS, ” we should play safe and give lbians prry over straight upl the adoptn procs. Six--ten llege graduat support allowg gays to marry (60%), pared wh 51% of those wh some llege experience and 38% of those wh no more than a high school tn. Nearly two-thirds (65%) of those who attend relig servic at least weekly oppose allowg gays and lbians to marry, as do 59% of those who say relign is very important their liv.

OUR PARENTS ARE GAY. ARE OUR FAI GOOD ENOUGH FOR THE SUPREME COURT?

There is far more support for gay marriage among those who attend servic ls equently and those who say relign is ls personally important. There has been a 10-pot crease support sce July 2006 (when 42% of the populatn supported allowg gays to adopt and 52% were opposed). However, while Hispanics are more likely to support gay marriage than to oppose , they are roughly evenly divid regardg gay adoptn, wh 44% favor and 48% opposed.

A majory of people who say relign is very important their liv oppose allowg gay and lbian upl to adopt (55%), while about one--four (23%) people who say relign is ls than very important oppose this.

People who believe that gays and lbians should be allowed to marry legally also tend to believe gay and lbians should be allowed to adopt children. Six years ago, opns were more evenly divid, wh 36% of the public sayg people are born homosexual, and 38% sayg that is jt how some people prefer to live. In the perd between 2003 and 2012, the percentage sayg homosexualy is somethg that velops bee of people’s upbrgg has remaed fairly stable (13% now, 14% 2003).