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I just saw a great 30 Days on this topic.
Should gay couples raise kids?
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coastal-boy
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I know alot of people who shouldn't raise kids.
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And nobody thinks it's weird when they do so...
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Depends on what you mean by weird.
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Unusual or unnatural, as in: Hetero couples can have/make all the babies they want and nobody's gonna look at them and saying: 'that's wrong', while gay couples with the same wish are being worked against.
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No, children shouldn't even have to know what homosexuality is until they are at least 10 years old. I believe it is child abuse to put a child in a gay home environment.
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Why do you think so? Isn't it child abuse when a child grows up in a heterosexual environment with the parents drinking/doing drugs/anything else harmful? Can you protect a child from that?
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I disagree. I've had plenty of conversations where someone commented that a hetero couple shouldn't have had kids or at least so many kids.
Granted it wasn't ever based on their sexual orientation, but I still think you're generalizing too much.
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If they are good parents then that is all that matters ...
Well in my eyes anyway.
Well in my eyes anyway.
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Keeping to the subject at hand, my partner and I bought two kids a couple of weeks ago: Amy & Angela! I'll eventually include pictures.
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Stripping away the gender differences...let's ask this very basic question: Would you rather see a child adopted by people who can financially support the child, love it, nurture it and give it a good future?
Or would you prefer they go with a strait couple who are in it for the tax break?
Sometimes people tend to forget who's supposed to benefit from the situation. Not who's personal beliefs are upheld or justified.
Or would you prefer they go with a strait couple who are in it for the tax break?
Sometimes people tend to forget who's supposed to benefit from the situation. Not who's personal beliefs are upheld or justified.
Why the hell not! I've seen gay couples that were in better relationships that some straight couples I know!
FUCK society and their shit! If two people or the same sex love and respect each other, let them have the same rights as two people that are of different sexes!
Who started this "oh you're gay so you don't deserve anything" crap anyway?
FUCK society and their shit! If two people or the same sex love and respect each other, let them have the same rights as two people that are of different sexes!
Who started this "oh you're gay so you don't deserve anything" crap anyway?
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Biological parents are not necessarily family, because kids just need loving and caring. Having homosexual parents isn't going to make kids homosexual... It isn't contagious. and kids can learn a lot.
There are so many differences in family structure these days. Just like extended families or kids raised by grandparents, if the kids are safe and can learn about diversity, it will give them understanding of a world of different things. Also much like being raised with family members with disabilities. Children get an understanding and knowledge that otherwise they wouldn't have.
That someone believes a child should not be exposed to homosexuality until a certain age is ridiculous. There is no reason to hide the world from a child, but be able to discuss and give unbiased opinions so kids can make their own choices is the best way. I see this no different than trying to keep kids away from cuss words... it is all but impossible. Communication is key.
If two women or two men have the time and compassion to raise a child and are able to provide for one (or more) they should never be denied that. My thoughts are just to show the kids that being different is not a bad thing, because in effect all kids are different in different ways.
There are so many differences in family structure these days. Just like extended families or kids raised by grandparents, if the kids are safe and can learn about diversity, it will give them understanding of a world of different things. Also much like being raised with family members with disabilities. Children get an understanding and knowledge that otherwise they wouldn't have.
That someone believes a child should not be exposed to homosexuality until a certain age is ridiculous. There is no reason to hide the world from a child, but be able to discuss and give unbiased opinions so kids can make their own choices is the best way. I see this no different than trying to keep kids away from cuss words... it is all but impossible. Communication is key.
If two women or two men have the time and compassion to raise a child and are able to provide for one (or more) they should never be denied that. My thoughts are just to show the kids that being different is not a bad thing, because in effect all kids are different in different ways.
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The Old Testament.
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Considering the compilers of what is known as the Bible threw away a lot of the material that could have been included (circa 300AD, I believe) who knows what it might have had to say on the subject...
... oh, and there was a lot of stuff those old testament guys got up to that would get them thrown in jail nowadays.
... oh, and there was a lot of stuff those old testament guys got up to that would get them thrown in jail nowadays.
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How is this abuse pray tell? No abuse is having a mother who ignores the signs of abuse committed by the man in her life upon her child. Abuse is a mother and her bf offering the mother's 5 yr old up to the highest bidder for a car, an apt and for child care for her 10month old who will be later offered up AND wanting footage of the incident to get off to
Abuse is a boy dying after being tied outside to a tree for HOURS as punishment. THAT'S abuse. Two settled people who can AFFORD to and are willing to give a child a home is never abuse.
I am all for gay couples raising children and adopting right along with straights as long as they can provide a safe and loving home. If all states would allow gay couples to adopt the stress on Child services would be less than what it is currently. Children wouldn't age out of the system at 18 without having known what a stable home life was like. They wouldn't age out without having had great role models.
The average straight couple goes for private adoption of HEALTHY infants from this country as well as abroad. older children and special needs children are sent by the way side when there are gay couples more than willing, able and eager to take them in.
So they might get picked on. Do these people not remember what school was like? EVERYONE got picked on. Your clothes your hair what car your parents drive etc. No one is immune from being made fun of its apart of life.
The last big long term study of children raised by both gay and straight parents showed that children of gay parents were no more likely to come out as gay than their straight raised counterparts. The only difference was the child's confidence with their own sexuality and who they are. Why? Because of being raised by open minded and accepting parents who ACTUALLY talk with their children.
My parents were straight but my mother had tons of gay friends. I grew up around these men and women never once thinking something was wrong with them or that they were going to hell. They just loved differently than everyone else.
The other argument that has really pissed me off is that children in these relationships are more likely to be sexually abused *BUZZER* 99.9% of pedophiles are STRAIGHT. It has nothing to do with sexual orientation and everything to do with control.
No male or Female role models - Well if the couple has a wide circle of friends then the child will have a shitload of role models (this was the same argument against single parenting)
The same goes for Men can't nurture like women can. *snorts* Tell that to a good friend of mine who is the most motherly man alive on the face of this earth. PTA meetings, girl scout cookie sales, ballet recitals (including putting her costume together), when their oldest got her period and freak out Angelo was there holding her hand and calming her down. A MAN was able to guide a girl through one of the hardest times in her young life with the barest outside help from the women in his life. Sure he could have passed the buck and had one of his female friends talk to her but this was HIS daughter and HIS job.
Gays can't parent *snorts* that's as bad as saying Pagans, Swingers, the BDSM crowd, or anyone with an 'alternate' lifestyle can't be a good parent. Utterly and totally ridiculous.
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I have thought of three reasons why!
1) Anything beats growing up in an orphanage
2) Global population, it would slow that down
3) People are more open minded about it now then before and it will get more accepted with time and become less of an issue and focus
How will gay parents slow population growth?
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