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Should SSM couples be permitted to adopt children?

Should SSM couples be permitted to adopt children?

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ernst barkmann said:
people able to think and express their views on things, marriage/adoption is a privilege of government because it is contract of legality from government.

if people are being denied the privilege, then its government committing an unconstitutional act.
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People vote in the government...
 
Bodhisattva said:
People vote in the government...
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thats correct, but equality under law falls on government shoulders.

are you just giving a personal rant against people who want to use government for their on ends?...because both sides of the spectrum do it.
 
Bob Blaylock said:
As much as our decaying society tries to deny it, there are important, essential differences between male and female; and these differences play an important role, not only in creating children, but in teaching these children to become adults. The whole LGBQbpWTF movement is based on denying this hard reality, to the great detriment of society as a whole.

I know how to be a man, because I had a father to show me how. I know how to treat my wife, because my father showed me, in how he treated my mother. I knew what to look for in a wife, and I know what to expect of my wife, because my mother showed me by her example.

You cannot get this from a broken, defective family, with only one parent, or with two “parents” that are the same sex. By divine design, it takes a man and a woman—a mother and a father—to create a child, and it also takes a father and a mother to properly raise a child.

Long before any of us lived, Mankind correctly recognized the tragic consequences of children growing up in “broken homes”, and that was with homes not nearly so broken and depraved as what our society is now trying to create and uphold.
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From what you have consistently posted on this forum, you know little about what is decent in a father figure or what to look for in a wife/mother that is not rigidly locked in Old Testament dogma...and not anything in keeping with the Constitution or today's decent, modern families with good loving parenting.

The fact that many loving and good parents come from backgrounds like I bolded clearly proves you wrong.
 
Peter Grimm said:
You were talking about single parents earlier, you want to backtrack on that?

Proven that children from single parent families are more likely to end up with problems
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And the ones raised in foster homes or state facilities, shuffled around, do so much better /sarcasm
 
Peter Grimm said:
I don't have as much of a problem with a gay couple acting as foster parents to older children who have already formed gender identity but I would worry about the potential for abuse
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Are gay men or women more predisposed to abuse infants than straight men or women? Or more predisposed to abuse children? Please provide sources.
 
Peter Grimm said:
How different are the adult children of parents who have same-sex relationships? Findings from the New Family Structures Study

Free summary:

Family Research Council


The summary is from a right wing publication and may be biased in presentation, but hey it's free. the linked university study is peer reviewed and very comprehensive, but you have to pay a few bucks I believe
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You realize you are citing a study that had a severely anorexic giant and a convicted one year old baby, right? In other words, it has been peer reviewed and found to have fake data, which when removed changes the conclusions drawn from the data. A quick Google search would have shown you that much.
 
JANFU said:
Should SSM couples be permitted to adopt children?
Yes - Why
No - Why
Not Sure - Why
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why not they already raise kids so if hetero couples can they should be able to do so as well
 
disneydude said:
LOL.....exactly what I said in my original post. Every legitimate study out there says that kids raised in gay households do just as well as kids raised in straight households. The only studies that say otherwise are funded by right-wing propaganda groups promoting their agenda. I was even going to mention the "family research council" but didn't. It is just ironic that you would list this in a sad attempt to try to make your point.
Epic fail! Try again. Find a study that isn't from a group with a right-wing social agenda. Let me save you the trouble - you can't.
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The study was done by the University of Texas.

The family research council just summarized it in case you don't want to pay to read the university study
 
Peter Grimm said:
The study was done by the University of Texas.

The family research council just summarized it in case you don't want to pay to read the university study
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Taking all into consideration, where and what do the vats majority of studies stand on SSM and raising children?
 
Peter Grimm said:
The study was done by the University of Texas.

The family research council just summarized it in case you don't want to pay to read the university study
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No. The "study" was done by a sociologist at the U of Texas, with a strong anti-gay bias and funding from anti-gay organizations, along with peer review done by people who, at least half, were professed anti-gay "peers". U of Texas has already disavowed all claim to the study. There have been plenty of people to discredit the study, including pretty much every professional medical and mental health organization in North America and Europe.
 
Yes, just because they are the same sex, doesnt meant they cant be great parents.
 
ernst barkmann said:
are you just giving a personal rant against people who want to use government for their on ends?...because both sides of the spectrum do it.
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Yep...
 
Absolutely.

All other things being equal, in my opinion:

No Parent < Single Parent < SSM Couple < Man/Woman Couple

There are far more children needing adopting in this world then there are loving couples actively looking to adopt. It is far superior imho for a child to be raised with two same sex parents then to be raised in an orphanage without any acutal parent.

Some say that depriving a child of a mother AND father is somehow indefensible....I'd say that depriving them of a mother OR father by demanding they remain in an orphanage as opposed to go to a loving couple that doesn't have one of each is also indefensible. The question isn't "SSM or Traditional couple", the reality is that quite often the question for a particular child may be SSM Couple or no adoption. If your answer in such situations is "no adoption" or "wait and hope that maybe sometime something will change for the kid", then it is you who are depriving them of that mother or father.

I completely and utterly support SSM Couples adopting.
 
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Peter Grimm said:
How different are the adult children of parents who have same-sex relationships? Findings from the New Family Structures Study

Free summary:

Family Research Council



The summary is from a right wing publication and may be biased in presentation, but hey it's free. the linked university study is peer reviewed and very comprehensive, but you have to pay a few bucks I believe
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Seeing as other countries permit SSM couples to adopt, have you any data from those countries?
 
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